Python command line tool to convert .labx files from the proprietary Cassy Lab 2 to OpenDocument ODS spreadsheets. The tool can also display basic information about the retrieved measurements.

Python 2.7 and the spreadsheet libraries lxml and ezodf have to be installed locally. You can install the dependencies with pip.

python --version
pip install lxml ezodf

To use the script natively from the terminal, you either have to add the repository in $PATH or create a symlink in a directory that is in the $PATH variable. If this doesn't work, determine the python directory with where python and put it in the header of cassy-charts.py.

chmod +x cassy-charts.py
cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s ~/path/to/repository/cassy-charts.py cassycharts

Prints help text with usage instructions and the link to the github repository.

python cassy-charts.py -h
python cassy-charts.py --help

Prints details about the different channels in the source file. It can also be used to determine the indices for the channel selection. This command doesn't start a file conversion.

python cassy-charts.py doc.labx -d
python cassy-charts.py doc.labx --details

Converts the channels from CASSY's .labx file to a Open Document Spreadsheet (.ods). It requires the source file and a destination path. WARNING: The output path will be overriden!

python cassy-charts.py doc.labx measurements.ods

Exports only certain channels specified with -c or --channels. The channel indices can be printed by the --details command.

python cassy-charts.py doc.labx measurements.ods -c 0 1 5
python cassy-charts.py doc.labx measurements.ods --channels 0 1 5

usage: cassycharts [-h] [--channels [CHANNELS [CHANNELS ...]]] [--details]
                   inputfile [outputfile]

Convert and interpret .labx-files from the proprietary Leybold CASSY software.

positional arguments:
  inputfile             path to the .labx file
  outputfile            path to the ods output file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --channels [CHANNELS [CHANNELS ...]], -c [CHANNELS [CHANNELS ...]]
                        whitelist channels to export
  --details, -d         print details about the channels of the .labx file

For more instructions see https://github.com/adrianschrader/cassy-charts