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iio_info(1) LibIIO Utilities iio_info(1)

NAME

iio_info - list IIO devices and device attributes

SYNOPSIS

iio_info [ options ] -u <uri>

DESCRIPTION

iio_info is a utility for displaying information about local or remote IIO devices

OPTIONS

Tells iio_info to display some help, and then quit.
Prints the version information for this particular copy of iio_info and the version of the libiio library it is using. This is useful for knowing if the version of the library and iio_info on your system are up to date. This is also useful when reporting bugs.
Scan for available IIO contexts, optional arg of specific backend(s) 'ip', 'usb' or 'ip:usb'. Specific options for USB include Vendor ID, Product ID to limit scanning to specific devices 'usb=0456,b673'. vid,pid are hexadecimal numbers (no prefix needed), "*" (match any for pid only) If no argument is given, it checks all that are available.
The Uniform Resource Identifier (uri) for connecting to devices, can be one of:
network address, either numeric (192.168.0.1) or network hostname
blank, if compiled with zeroconf support, will find an IIO device on network
normally returned from iio_info -S
which are controlled, and need to match the iiod (or tinyiiod) on the other end of the serial port.
[port]
is something like '/dev/ttyUSB0' on Linux, and 'COM4' on Windows.
[baud]
is is normally one of 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200 [default], 128000 or 256000, but can vary system to system.
[settings]
would normally be configured as '8n1' this is controlled by:
(5, 6, 7, 8 [default], or 9)
('n' none [default], 'o' odd, 'e' even, 'm' mark, or 's' space)
(1 [default, or 2)
('0' none [default], 'x' Xon Xoff, 'r' RTSCTS, or 'd' DTRDSR)
with no address part.
Scan for available contexts and if only one is available use it.

RETURN VALUE

If the specified device is not found, a non-zero exit code is returned.

SEE ALSO

iio_attr(1), iio_info(1), iio_readdev(1), iio_reg(1), iio_writedev(1), libiio(3)

libiio home page: https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio

libiio code: https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio

Doxygen for libiio https://analogdevicesinc.github.io/libiio/

BUGS

All bugs are tracked at: https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio/issues

03 December 2023 libiio-0.25