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A PLESTY module is a Python package; it does not run itself. PLESTY Bench is the application that turns one into a running instrument — it installs modules from the hub, launches their device servers, supervises them, runs their field tests, and keeps the logs and the job history. It is what goes on a lab bench PC, and this is where you get it.

Install the bench

The current release is v0.5.0.

Windows

Download plesty-server-v0.5.0-windows-setup.exe and run it. It installs per user and asks for no administrator rights.

macOS and Linux

curl -LsSf https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/85550357/packages/generic/plesty-server/v0.5.0/install.sh | sh

With uv already installed

uv tool install "plesty-server[gui]==0.5.0"

All three do the same thing. The two installers add uv if the machine lacks it, install the bench from PyPI, and leave an entry in the Start menu or Launchpad — which is why uv is not a prerequisite. Open the console from that entry, or with:

plesty-server gui

Upgrade a bench later with uv tool upgrade plesty-server.

The remote client

plesty-bench drives a bench from another machine — install a module, run a field test, follow the job — over the same wire the device servers speak. The CLI is the API.

uv tool install plesty-bench
plesty-bench -b lab-bench-03 field-test pm100d

All releases

Each release publishes its own installer, pinned to that version. Releases are grouped by line — one per minor version, 0.4 holding v0.4.0 to its last fix — and a line keeps receiving fixes after the next one opens. The latest release is the highest version; a fix to an older line is listed under that line even when it shipped later.

Full notes are on each release page; the running account is in the CHANGELOG.

Before you install

• Windows, macOS or Linux. No Python needed — uv fetches an interpreter if the machine has none.
• git is what the bench uses to fetch a module from a repository rather than a release. The Windows installer downloads a portable copy for itself; on macOS and Linux, install one if git --version says you have none.

New to the platform? The Quickstart builds a working bench on your own PC with no hardware at all, and the PLESTY Bench documentation explains every window and setting of the bench.