**tomato**: au-tomation without the pain!
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**tomato** is an instrument automation package, currently developed in the 
`Materials for Energy Conversion <https://www.empa.ch/web/s501>`_ lab at Empa. 

**tomato** includes:

- the job scheduler and queue, :mod:`tomato.daemon`, using a ``sqlite3`` as a 
  backend for IPC;
- the configuration utility :mod:`~tomato.ketchup`, modelled after PBS / SGE; 
- a set of device drivers, see the :ref:`driver library`.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957189. The project is part of
BATTERY 2030+, the large-scale European research initiative for inventing the
sustainable batteries of the future.

.. codeauthor::
    Peter Kraus,
    Loris Ercole

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: tomato user manual

   installation
   quickstart
   usage
   version

.. _driver library:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: tomato driver library

   apidoc/tomato.drivers.dummy
   apidoc/tomato.drivers.biologic

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   :caption: tomato autodocs
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   apidoc/tomato