Hall of Fame & Credits

Author

DSMR-reader was originally authored by Dennis Siemensma and started in 2015.

Special thanks

• Bram van Dartel (@xirixiz) — author of DSMR-reader Docker and providing the containers
• Nigel Dokter (@ndokter) — author of DSMR-parser
• Jeroen Peters (@jeroenpeters1986)
• JetBrains — for providing a JetBrains IDE license to work on DSMR-reader for many years
• GitHub — for hosting the project code and issues
• Read The Docs — for hosting all documentation of DSMR-reader
• All contributors on GitHub

Software used

DSMR-reader would not have been possible without the following software and projects:

Language & framework

• Python — the language powering DSMR-reader
• Django — web framework
• Django REST Framework — REST API layer
• gunicorn — WSGI HTTP server
• PostgreSQL — production database
• psycopg2 — PostgreSQL adapter

Django extensions

• django-solo — singleton settings models
• django-filter — queryset filtering for the API
• django-mathfilters — template math filters
• django-colorfield — color picker for admin
• django-admin-rangefilter — date range filter in admin
• django-admin-sortable — sortable admin lists
• django-debug-toolbar — development debugging panel

Integrations & protocols

• paho-mqtt — MQTT client
• influxdb-client — InfluxDB integration
• dropbox — Dropbox SDK
• pyserial — serial port communication
• pyserial-asyncio — async serial port support
• Buienradar — Dutch weather data provider

Utilities

• python-decouple — environment-based configuration
• python-dateutil — date parsing utilities
• requests — HTTP client
• pyyaml — YAML parsing
• attrs — data classes
• crcmod — CRC checksum for P1 telegram validation
• packaging — version parsing utilities
• uritemplate — URI template expansion

Frontend

• Bootstrap — CSS framework
• jQuery — JavaScript utility library
• Apache ECharts — interactive charts and graphs
• Day.js — lightweight date/time library
• Font Awesome — icon set
• Director Responsive Admin — admin UI template (original website offline)
• ReDoc — API documentation renderer
• Favicon made by Freepik from flaticon.com
• Real Favicon Generator — favicon tooling

Documentation

• MkDocs — static site generator for documentation
• Material for MkDocs — documentation theme
• PyMdown Extensions — Markdown extensions (admonitions, code highlighting, superfences, tabs)
• Read The Docs — documentation hosting

Development tools

• Poetry — dependency management and packaging
• Black — Python code formatter
• Flake8 — Python linter (with bandit and bugbear plugins)
• MyPy — static type checker
• djlint — Django template linter and formatter
• pytest — test framework (with pytest-django and pytest-xdist)
• Claude Code by Anthropic — AI coding assistant

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Previously used software

Software that was part of DSMR-reader in earlier versions:

• Bootstrap Datepicker — date picker widget
• Flatpickr — date picker widget
• Moment.js — date/time library
• Semantic UI — UI component framework
• iCheck — custom checkbox and radio inputs
• jQuery Inputmask — input masking plugin
• jQuery placeholder — placeholder polyfill
• jQuery slimScroll — custom scrollbar plugin
• jQuery ba-resize — element resize event plugin
• Ionicons — icon set
• html5shiv — HTML5 compatibility for older browsers
• Respond.js — CSS media query polyfill