CLI Commands

FlexMeasures comes with a command-line utility, which helps to manage data. Below, we list all available commands.

Each command has more extensive documentation if you call it with --help.

We keep track of changes to these commands in FlexMeasures CLI Changelog. You can also get the current overview over the commands you have available by:

flexmeasures --help
flexmeasures [command] --help

This also shows admin commands made available through Flask and installed extensions (such as Flask-Security and Flask-Migrate), of which some are referred to in this documentation.

add - Add data

flexmeasures add initial-structure	Initialize structural data like users, roles and asset types.
flexmeasures add account-role	Create a FlexMeasures tenant account role.
flexmeasures add account	Create a FlexMeasures tenant account.
flexmeasures add user	Create a FlexMeasures user.
flexmeasures add asset-type	Create a new asset type.
flexmeasures add asset	Create a new asset.
flexmeasures add sensor	Add a new sensor.
flexmeasures add beliefs	Load beliefs from file.
flexmeasures add source	Add a new data source.
flexmeasures add forecasts	Create forecasts.
flexmeasures add schedule for-storage	Create a charging schedule for a storage asset.
flexmeasures add schedule for-process	Create a schedule for a process asset.
flexmeasures add holidays	Add holiday annotations to accounts and/or assets.
flexmeasures add annotation	Add annotation to accounts, assets and/or sensors.
flexmeasures add toy-account	Create a toy account, for tutorials and trying things.
flexmeasures add report	Create a report.

show - Show data

flexmeasures show accounts	List accounts.
flexmeasures show account	Show an account, its users and assets.
flexmeasures show asset-types	List available asset types.
flexmeasures show asset	Show an asset and its sensors.
flexmeasures show roles	List available account- and user roles.
flexmeasures show data-sources	List available data sources.
flexmeasures show beliefs	Plot time series data.
flexmeasures show reporters	List available reporters.
flexmeasures show schedulers	List available schedulers.

edit - Edit data

flexmeasures edit attribute	Edit (or add) an asset attribute or sensor attribute.
flexmeasures edit resample-data	Assign a new event resolution to an existing sensor and resample its data accordingly.
flexmeasures edit transfer-ownership	Transfer the ownership of an asset and its children to a different account.

delete - Delete data

flexmeasures delete structure	Delete all structural (non time-series) data, like assets (types), roles and users.
flexmeasures delete account-role	Delete a tenant account role.
flexmeasures delete account	Delete a tenant account & also their users (with assets and power measurements).
flexmeasures delete user	Delete a user & also their assets and power measurements.
flexmeasures delete asset	Delete an asset & also its sensors and data.
flexmeasures delete sensor	Delete a sensor and all beliefs about it.
flexmeasures delete measurements	Delete measurements (with horizon <= 0).
flexmeasures delete prognoses	Delete forecasts and schedules (forecasts > 0).
flexmeasures delete unchanged-beliefs	Delete unchanged beliefs.
flexmeasures delete nan-beliefs	Delete NaN beliefs.

jobs - Job queueing

flexmeasures jobs run-worker	Start a worker process for forecasting and/or scheduling jobs.
flexmeasures jobs show queues	List job queues.
flexmeasures jobs clear-queue	Clear a job queue.

db-ops - Operations on the whole database

flexmeasures db-ops dump	Create a dump of all current data (using pg_dump).
flexmeasures db-ops load	Load backed-up contents (see db-ops save), run reset first.
flexmeasures db-ops reset	Reset database data and re-create tables from data model.
flexmeasures db-ops restore	Restore the dump file, see db-ops dump (run reset first).
flexmeasures db-ops save	Backup db content to files.