Install the NI Battery Cell Quality Toolkit Python package to script tests.

Introduced in Battery Cell Quality Toolkit 2025 Q4

Note For more information on the Python API for this product, refer to the nibcq API Reference.
  1. Use Package Manager on a Windows machine to install the following runtimes.
    Note Installing the Battery Cell Quality Toolkit automatically adds these runtimes to the machine. You can also install these runtimes one at a time.
    • NI-DAQmx
    • NI-DCPower
    • NI-DMM
    • NI-SWITCH
  2. Download and install Python 3.12 or later.
  3. In the nibcq-python GitHub repository, navigate to the \examples folder and download the example files.
  4. Create a virtual environment for the test. 
    python -m venv bcqtest
bcqtest\Scripts\activate
  5. Optional: To install from the testing instance of the Python Package Index (test.pypi), add the following dependencies. 
    pip install nidaqmx
pip install nidcpower
pip install nidmm
pip install niswitch
  6. Install the nibcq package.
    • If you are installing the official release, use the following command:
      pip install nibcq
    • If you are installing from the Python Package Index (PyPI) test environment, use the following command:
      pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ nibcq
  7. Run the Python examples.
    • To run the EIS examples, add the plotting packages.
      pip install matplotlib
    • To run a Python file from the example files directory, use the following command.
      python simulated_dmm_device.py
    • Modify device names in the example scripts.
      Device.create(DeviceFamily.SMU, resource_name="[NAME]")