Voltcraft Energy Logger - Parser

A python parse script for Voltcraft's Energy-Loggers. Tested with binary files from the versions 3500 and 4000, might work with more. The implementation is based on Voltcraft's documentation. The project doesn't have any additional dependencies.

CLI-Application

usage: python -m voltcraft_el_parser [-h] binary_path [out_path]

A parser for EL3500/EL4000 binary files

positional arguments:
  binary_path  path to the input binary file
  out_path     path for output .csv file (optional)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit

Examples:

• python -m voltcraft_el_parser binfile.bin out.csv > will export to out.csv
• python -m voltcraft_el_parser binfile.bin > will export to binfile.csv

Usage in Python scripts

from voltcraft_el_parser.binary_parser import parse_file

path_in = 'tests/data/b1c622b2.bin'
data = parse_file(path_in)

for time, voltage, ampere, power_factor in data:
    print(f'{time},{voltage},{ampere},{power_factor}')