mcpbeat Sign in

Thorlabs Optical Power Meter MCP Server

local only

Thorlabs Optical Power Meter runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 213 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 27 Sep 2026.

MCP server for Thorlabs optical power meters (PM100 family, PM400, PM101, PM5020) over SCPI.

Installs per day peak 782 · avg 49 · -34% w/w
a month agotoday
213
Installs / week
pypi · labmcp-thorlabs-pm
19
Stars
0 open issues
27 Sep 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
Apache-2.0
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Thorlabs Optical Power Meter every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add labmcp-thorlabs-pm -- uvx labmcp-thorlabs-pm
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "labmcp-thorlabs-pm": {
      "args": [
        "labmcp-thorlabs-pm"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.labmcp-thorlabs-pm]
command = "uvx"
args = ["labmcp-thorlabs-pm"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "labmcp-thorlabs-pm": {
      "args": [
        "labmcp-thorlabs-pm"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "labmcp-thorlabs-pm": {
      "args": [
        "labmcp-thorlabs-pm"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: LABMCP_ADDRESS (Instrument address, e.g. serial:///dev/ttyUSB0 or tcp://192.168.1.50:5025), LABMCP_SIMULATE (Set to 1 to use the built-in simulator (no hardware)), LABMCP_READ_ONLY (Set to 1 to disable all state-changing tools), LABMCP_LIMITS (Safety limit overrides, e.g. max_temperature_c=80). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

Alternatives to Thorlabs Optical Power Meter

same job, measured the same way
Keithley SourceMeter SMU
by k-dense-ai

MCP server for Keithley SourceMeter SMUs (2400 series SCPI, 2450 family SCPI, 2600B TSP).

207 installs/wk local only
Ocean Insight Spectrometer
by k-dense-ai

MCP server for Ocean Insight / Ocean Optics spectrometers (python-seabreeze).

199 installs/wk local only
Python MCP
by files

Local-only Python MCP server for the Files.com API.

3 872 installs/wk local only
Mux
by mux

The official MCP Server for the Mux API

1 188 installs/wk 2 tools answering
Vulners MCP
by vulnerscom

MCP server for the Vulners.com API

104 installs/wk local only
New Era Syringe Pump
by k-dense-ai

MCP server for New Era Pump Systems syringe pumps (NE-1000 family, RS-232).

212 installs/wk local only
Powerbi
by asklokesh

MCP server for Power BI API integration

65 installs/wk local only
Hostkey Cloud
by hostkey-cloud

MCP server for Hostkey .com (InvAPI): servers, power, order, DNS, S3, billing

24 installs/wk answering

Thorlabs Optical Power Meter — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Thorlabs Optical Power Meter?
Thorlabs Optical Power Meter runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package labmcp-thorlabs-pm was installed 213 times last week.
How do I connect Thorlabs Optical Power Meter?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls labmcp-thorlabs-pm straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Thorlabs Optical Power Meter?
The pypi package labmcp-thorlabs-pm was installed 213 times in the last week. Week over week that is -34%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Thorlabs Optical Power Meter open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 19 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.