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

**tomato** includes:

- a daemon for pipeline and device management, as well as job scheduling, :mod:`tomato.daemon`;
- the daemon and pipeline configuration utility, :mod:`tomato.tomato`;
- the job and job queue configuration utility, :mod:`tomato.ketchup`;
- the component status utility and API, :mod:`tomato.passata`;
- 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 Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG, under project No. 490703766
- the Priority Programme 2419 HyCAM of the DFG, under project No. 523873650

The project is part of BATTERY 2030+, the large-scale European research initiative for inventing the sustainable batteries of the future.

.. codeauthor::
    Peter Kraus,
    Alexandre Gbocho,
    Graham Kimbell,
    Loris Ercole,


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

   installation
   quickstart
   usage
   driver_develop
   version

.. _driver library:

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

   tomato-example-counter <https://github.com/dgbowl/tomato-example-counter>
   tomato-psutil <https://github.com/dgbowl/tomato-psutil>
   tomato-bronkhorst <https://github.com/dgbowl/tomato-bronkhorst/>
   tomato-jumo <https://github.com/dgbowl/tomato-jumo>

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   apidoc/tomato