SiLA2 Instrument Connectors

SiLA2 instrument connectors developed at the Acceleration Consortium. Each connector exposes a laboratory instrument as a SiLA2 gRPC service, making it addressable from any SiLA2-compatible orchestration platform.

Connectors

• AccelerationConsortium/opentrons-flex — Opentrons Flex Connector built for deployment on OTFlex hardware as a drop-in replacement for their HTTP server
• AccelerationConsortium/opentrons-ot2 — Opentrons OT2 UniteLabs Connector built for deployment on OT2 hardware as a drop-in replacement for their HTTP server
• AccelerationConsortium/sainsmart-relay-sila 🔒 — SiLA 2 connector for the SainSmart 16-channel USB relay (CH340) - UniteLabs CDK

🔒 = private repository. Access restricted to org members.

This list updates automatically when repos tagged sila2-connector are added to a tracked org. Connectors from multiple GitHub organizations can appear here — see Contributing.

UniteLabs

• Connector Development Docs — getting started guide for building SiLA2 connectors with the UniteLabs CDK
• Connectors — UniteLabs' GitLab library of SiLA2 connectors for commercial instruments
• Python CDK — the SDK used to build and run these connectors

Structure

Each connector is a standalone repository named sila2-<manufacturer>-<model> and follows a common layout:

• src/ — SiLA2 feature implementations
• workflows/ — Prefect workflows that call the connector
• tests/ — Unit and integration tests
• deploy.sh — One-command deploy to the instrument's onboard computer

Contributing

Adding a connector within AccelerationConsortium

1. Create a repo in AccelerationConsortium named sila2-<manufacturer>-<model>
2. Add the topic sila2-connector (plus any device-specific topics e.g. ot2)
3. It will appear in the list above within 24 hours, or immediately via manual trigger

Listing connectors from another GitHub organization

Any organization building SiLA2 connectors is welcome to have them listed here.

Step 1 — Tag your repos. Add the topic sila2-connector to each connector repo in your GitHub organization. The topic must be exactly sila2-connector (no variations).

Step 2 — Open a pull request. Add your GitHub organization name as a new line in orgs.txt in this repository and open a pull request. Once merged, your connectors will appear in the list above automatically.

If you have questions or would like to discuss before opening a PR, open an issue.