Instrumentman (or I-man for short) is a Python CLI package, that is a collection of automated measurement programs and related utilities for surveying instruments (mainly Leica robotic total stations).

• Download: https://pypi.org/project/instrumentman/
• Documentation: https://instrumentman.readthedocs.io/
• Source: https://github.com/MrClock8163/Instrumentman
• Bug reports: https://github.com/MrClock8163/Instrumentman/issues

Main features

• Pure Python implementation
• Support for type checkers
• Command line applications

Requirements

To use the package, Python 3.11 or higher is required.

I-man relies on the GeoComPy package for the implementation of the various remote command protocols.

The individual commands require a number of other packages for command line argument parsing, JSON manipulation, calculations and other functions.

Installation

The preferred method to install I-man is through PyPI, where both wheel and source distributions are made available.

python -m pip install instrumentman

If not yet published changes/fixes are needed, that are only available in source, I-man can also be installed locally from source, without any external tools. Once the repository is cloned to a directory, it can be installed with pip.

git clone https://github.com/MrClock8163/Instrumentman.git
cd Instrumentman
python -m pip install .

Some commands require additional dependencies, that are not installed by default with I-man. These are indicated in the documentations of the specific commands.

License

I-man is free and open source software, and it is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.