THE LÄB

Hello and welcome to THE LÄB!

You can find our central hub with all services here: https://hub.lab.enpal.io/

THE LÄB provides testing resources/utilities and environments:

• Testbenches with features, such as

  • DC sources to simulate PV input

  • Wallboxes to simulate EV’s

  • Inverters with batteries

  • Controllable loads to simulate household loads

• Ressource management

• Special network for easy access

• Testframework to control testbenches and TestClient package with easy to use methods to interact with Testbenches/Testframework for fast test development

• This documentation

Thanks for reading the docs! Please bear in mind, this is a work in progress and we’re happy if you’d provide us with feedback 👨‍🔬

Getting started

• Get access via the VPN

Support

If you need help, please do not hesitate to reach out to us:

Contact persons

Topics	Contact
Requirements, general topics	Johannes Eberle
Framework/client/testbench technicallities	Christian Engelbrekt Petersen Tobias Abels
Docker, Balena, Network/Hosting	Lucas Mannherz

Index

THE LÄB overview

• LÄB Locations
• Network

Testcase Automation

• Getting started
• Creating your own automated test pipeline
• Important Update 📣: Breaking changes in release of testframework lib v2.0.0

Testframework API reference

• testframework.clients package
• testframework.datasinks package
• testframework.inventory package
• testframework.utils package

THE LÄB internals

• Managing the Network
• Hosting Infrastructure
• Adding a testbench