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1 .TH SIGROK\-CLI 1 "October 22, 2018"
2 .SH "NAME"
3 sigrok\-cli \- Command-line client for the sigrok software
4 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
5 .B sigrok\-cli [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
6 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
7 \fBsigrok\-cli\fP is a cross-platform command line utility for the
8 \fBsigrok\fP software.
9 .PP
10 It cannot display graphical output, but is still sufficient to run through
11 the whole process of hardware initialization, acquisition, protocol decoding
12 and saving the session.
13 .PP
14 It is useful for running on remote or embedded systems, netbooks, PDAs,
15 and for various other use-cases. It can display samples on standard output or
16 save them in various file formats.
17 .SH OPTIONS
18 .TP
19 .B "\-h, \-\-help"
20 Show a help text and exit.
21 .TP
22 .B "\-V, \-\-version"
23 Show
24 .B sigrok\-cli
25 version and the versions of libraries used.
26 .TP
27 .B "\-L, \-\-list\-supported"
28 Show information about supported hardware drivers, input file
29 formats, output file formats, and protocol decoders.
30 .TP
31 \fB\-d, \-\-driver\fP <drivername>
32 A driver must always be selected (unless doing a global scan). Use the
33 .BR "\-L " ( "\-\-list-supported" ")"
34 option to get a list of available drivers.
35 .sp
36 Drivers can take options, in the form \fBkey=value\fP
37 separated by colons.
38 .sp
39 Drivers communicating with hardware via a serial port always need the port
40 specified as the \fBconn\fP option. For example, to use the
41 Openbench Logic Sniffer:
42 .sp
43 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver=ols:conn=/dev/ttyACM0" " [...]"
44 .sp
45 Some USB devices don't use a unique VendorID/ProductID combination, and thus
46 need that specified as well. This also uses the \fBconn\fP option, using
47 either \fBVendorID.ProductID\fP or \fBbus.address\fP:
48 .sp
49 USB \fBVendorID.ProductID\fP example:
50 .sp
51 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver=uni\-t\-ut61e:conn=1a86.e008" " [...]"
52 .sp
53 USB \fBbus.address\fP example:
54 .sp
55 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver=uni\-t\-ut61e:conn=4.6" " [...]"
56 .TP
57 .BR "\-c, \-\-config " <deviceoption>
58 A colon-separated list of device options, where each option takes the form
59 .BR key=value .
60 For example, to set the samplerate to 1MHz on a device supported by the
61 fx2lafw driver, you might specify
62 .sp
63 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-d fx2lafw \-\-config samplerate=1m" " [...]"
64 .sp
65 Samplerate is an option common to most logic analyzers. The argument specifies
66 the samplerate in Hz. You can also specify the samplerate in kHz, MHz or GHz.
67 The following are all equivalent:
68 .sp
69 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-d fx2lafw \-\-config samplerate=1000000" " [...]"
70 .sp
71 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-d fx2lafw \-\-config samplerate=1m" " [...]"
72 .sp
73 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-d fx2lafw \-\-config \(dqsamplerate=1 MHz\(dq" " [...]"
74 .TP
75 .BR "\-i, \-\-input\-file " <filename>
76 Load input from a file instead of a hardware device. You can specify
77 "-" to use stdin as input. If the
78 .B \-\-input\-format
79 option is not supplied, sigrok\-cli attempts to autodetect the file format of
80 the input file.
81 .sp
82 Example for loading a sigrok session file:
83 .sp
84 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-i example.sr" " [...]"
85 .sp
86 Example for loading a WAV file (autodetection of input format):
87 .sp
88 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-i example.wav" " [...]
89 .sp
90 Example for loading a VCD file from stdin (autodetection of input format):
91 .sp
92 .RB " $ " "cat example.vcd | sigrok\-cli \-i \-" " [...]
93 .TP
94 .BR "\-I, \-\-input\-format " <format>
95 When loading an input file, assume it's in the specified format. If this
96 option is not supplied (in addition to
97 .BR \-\-input\-file ),
98 sigrok-cli attempts to autodetect the file format of the input file. Use the
99 .BR "\-L " ( "\-\-list\-supported" ")"
100 option to see a list of available input formats.
101 .sp
102 The format name may optionally be followed by a colon-separated list of
103 options, where each option takes the form
104 .BR "key=value" .
105 .sp
106 Example for loading a binary file with options:
107 .sp
108 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-i example.bin"
109 .br
110 .BR " \-I binary:numchannels=4:samplerate=1mhz" " [...]"
111 .TP
112 .BR "\-o, \-\-output\-file " <filename>
113 Save output to a file instead of writing it to stdout. The default format
114 used when saving is the sigrok session file format. This can be changed with
115 the
116 .B \-\-output\-format
117 option.
118 .sp
119 Example for saving data in the sigrok session format:
120 .sp
121 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli " "[...] " "\-o example.sr"
122 .TP
123 .BR "\-O, \-\-output\-format " <format>
124 Set the output format to use. Use the
125 .BR "\-L " ( "\-\-list\-supported" ")"
126 option to see a list of available output formats.
127 .sp
128 The format name may optionally be followed by a colon-separated list of
129 options, where each option takes the form
130 .BR "key=value" .
131 .sp
132 For example, the
133 .B bits
134 or
135 .B hex
136 formats, for an ASCII bit or ASCII hexadecimal display, can take a "width" option, specifying the number of samples (in bits) to display per line. Thus
137 .B "\-O hex:width=128"
138 will display 128 bits per line, in hexadecimal:
139 .sp
140 0:ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
141 1:ff00 ff00 ff00 ff00 ff00 ff00 ff00 ff00
142 .sp
143 The lines always start with the channel number (or name, if defined), followed by a colon. If no format is specified, it defaults to
144 .BR bits:width=64 ,
145 like this:
146 .sp
147 0:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
148 1:11111111 00000000 11111111 00000000 [...]
149 .sp
150 Example for saving data in the CSV format with options:
151 .sp
152 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli " "[...] " "\-o example.csv \-O csv:dedup:header=false"
153 .sp
154 Notice that boolean options are \fBtrue\fP when no value gets specified.
155 .TP
156 .BR "\-C, \-\-channels " <channellist>
157 A comma-separated list of channels to be used in the session.
158 .sp
159 Note that sigrok always names the channels according to how they're shown on
160 the enclosure of the hardware. If your logic analyzer numbers the channels 0\-15,
161 that's how you must specify them with this option. An oscilloscope's channels
162 would generally be referred to as "CH1", "CH2", and so on.
163 Use the \fB\-\-show\fP option to see a list of channel names for your device.
164 .sp
165 The default is to use all the channels available on a device. You can name
166 a channel like this:
167 .BR "1=CLK" .
168 A range of channels can also be given, in the form
169 .BR "1\-5" .
170 .sp
171 Example:
172 .sp
173 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver fx2lafw \-\-samples 100"
174 .br
175 .B " \-\-channels 1=CLK,2\-4,7"
176 .br
177 CLK:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
178 2:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
179 3:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
180 4:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
181 7:11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 [...]
182 .sp
183 The comma-separated list is processed from left to right, i.e. items farther
184 to the right override previous items. For example
185 .B "1=CS,CS=MISO"
186 will set the name of channel 1 to
187 .BR "MISO" .
188 .TP
189 .BR "\-g, \-\-channel\-group "<channel\ group>
190 Specify the channel group to operate on. Some devices organize channels into
191 groups, the settings of which can only be changed as a group. The list of
192 channel groups, if any, is displayed with the \fB\-\-show\fP command.
193 .sp
194 Examples:
195 .sp
196 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-g CH1" " [...]"
197 .sp
198 .RB " $ " "sigrok\-cli \-d demo \-g Logic \-c pattern=graycode" " [...]"
199 .TP
200 .BR "\-t, \-\-triggers " <triggerlist>
201 A comma-separated list of triggers to use, of the form
202 .BR "<channel>=<trigger>" .
203 You can use the name or number of the channel, and the trigger itself is a
204 series of characters:
205 .sp
206 .BR "0 or 1" :
207 A low or high value on the pin.
208 .br
209 .BR "r or f" :
210 A rising or falling value on the pin. An
211 .B r
212 effectively corresponds to
213 .BR 01 .
214 .br
215 .BR "e" :
216 Any kind of change on a pin (either a rising or a falling edge).
217 .sp
218 Not every device supports all of these trigger types. Use the \fB\-\-show\fP
219 command to see which triggers your device supports.
220 .TP
221 .BR "\-w, \-\-wait\-trigger"
222 Don't output any sample data (even if it's actually received from the
223 hardware) before the trigger condition is met. In other words, do not output
224 any pre-trigger data. This option is useful if you don't care about the data
225 that came before the trigger (but the hardware delivers this data to sigrok
226 nonetheless).
227 .TP
228 .BR "\-P, \-\-protocol\-decoders " <list>
229 This option allows the user to specify a comma-separated list of protocol
230 decoders to be used in this session. The decoders are specified by their
231 ID, as shown in the
232 .BR "\-L " ( "\-\-list\-supported" ")"
233 output.
234 .sp
235 Example:
236 .sp
237 $
238 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c"
239 .sp
240 Each protocol decoder can optionally be followed by a colon-separated list
241 of options, where each option takes the form
242 .BR "key=value" .
243 .sp
244 Example:
245 .sp
246 $
247 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> "
248 .br
249 .B " \-P uart:baudrate=115200:parity_type=odd"
250 .sp
251 The list of supported options depends entirely on the protocol decoder. Every
252 protocol decoder has different options it supports.
253 .sp
254 Any "options" specified for a protocol decoder which are not actually
255 supported options, will be interpreted as being channel name/number assignments.
256 .sp
257 Example:
258 .sp
259 $
260 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr>"
261 .br
262 .B " \-P spi:wordsize=9:miso=1:mosi=5:clk=3:cs=0"
263 .sp
264 In this example,
265 .B wordsize
266 is an option supported by the
267 .B spi
268 protocol decoder. Additionally, the user tells sigrok to decode the SPI
269 protocol using channel 1 as MISO signal for SPI, channel 5 as MOSI, channel 3
270 as CLK, and channel 0 as CS# signal.
271 .sp
272 Notice that the
273 .B sigrok\-cli
274 application does not support "name matching". Instead it's assumed that the
275 traces in the input stream match the order of the decoder's input signals,
276 or that users explicitly specify the input channel to decoder signal mapping.
277 .br
278 .sp
279 When multiple decoders are specified in the same
280 .BR -P
281 option, they will be stacked on top of each other in the specified order.
282 .sp
283 Example:
284 .sp
285 $
286 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c,eeprom24xx"
287 .br
288 $
289 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P uart:baudrate=31250,midi"
290 .sp
291 When multiple
292 .BR -P
293 options are specified, each of them creates one decoder stack, which
294 executes in parallel to other decoder stacks.
295 .sp
296 Example:
297 .sp
298 $
299 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P uart:tx=D0:rx=D1 \-P timing:data=D2"
300 .sp
301 .TP
302 .BR "\-A, \-\-protocol\-decoder\-annotations " <annotations>
303 By default, only the stack's topmost protocol decoder's annotation output is
304 shown. With this option another decoder's annotation can be selected for
305 display, by specifying its ID:
306 .sp
307 $
308 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c,i2cfilter,edid \-A i2c"
309 .sp
310 If a protocol decoder has multiple annotations, you can also specify
311 which one of them to show by specifying its short description like this:
312 .sp
313 $
314 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c,i2cfilter,edid"
315 .br
316 .B " \-A i2c=data\-read"
317 .sp
318 Select multiple annotations by separating them with a colon:
319 .sp
320 $
321 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c,i2cfilter,edid"
322 .br
323 .B " \-A i2c=data\-read:data\-write"
324 .sp
325 You can also select multiple protocol decoders, with an optional selected
326 annotation each, by separating them with commas:
327 .sp
328 $
329 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-P i2c,i2cfilter,edid"
330 .br
331 .B " \-A i2c=data\-read:data\-write,edid"
332 .TP
333 .BR "\-M, \-\-protocol\-decoder\-meta " <pdname>
334 When given, show protocol decoder meta output instead of annotations.
335 The argument is the name of the decoder whose meta output to show.
336 .sp
337 $
338 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-M i2c"
339 .sp
340 Not every decoder generates meta output.
341 .TP
342 .BR "\-B, \-\-protocol\-decoder\-binary " <binaryspec>
343 When given, decoder "raw" data of various kinds is written to stdout instead
344 of annotations (this could be raw binary UART/SPI bytes, or WAV files, PCAP
345 files, PNG files, or anything else; this is entirely dependent on the
346 decoder and what kinds of binary output make sense for that decoder).
347 .sp
348 No other information is printed to stdout, so this is
349 suitable for piping into other programs or saving to a file.
350 .sp
351 Protocol decoders that support binary output publish a list of binary
352 classes, for example the UART decoder might have "TX" and "RX". To
353 select TX for output, the argument to this option would be:
354 .sp
355 $
356 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-B uart=tx"
357 .br
358 .sp
359 If only the protocol decoder is specified, without binary class, all classes
360 are written to stdout:
361 .sp
362 $
363 .B "sigrok\-cli \-i <file.sr> \-B uart"
364 .sp
365 (this is only useful in rare cases, generally you would specify a certain
366 binary class you're interested in)
367 .sp
368 Not every decoder generates binary output.
369 .TP
370 .BR "\-\-protocol\-decoder\-samplenum
371 When given, decoder annotations will include sample numbers, too.
372 This allows consumers to receive machine readable timing information.
373 .TP
374 .BR "\-l, \-\-loglevel " <level>
375 Set the libsigrok and libsigrokdecode loglevel. At the moment \fBsigrok\-cli\fP
376 doesn't support setting the two loglevels independently. The higher the
377 number, the more debug output will be printed. Valid loglevels are:
378 .sp
379 \fB0\fP None
380 .br
381 \fB1\fP Error
382 .br
383 \fB2\fP Warnings
384 .br
385 \fB3\fP Informational
386 .br
387 \fB4\fP Debug
388 .br
389 \fB5\fP Spew
390 .TP
391 .B "\-\-show"
392 .br
393 Show information about the selected option. For example, to see options for a
394 connected fx2lafw device:
395 .sp
396 $
397 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver fx2lafw \-\-show
398 .sp
399 In order to properly get device options for your hardware, some drivers might
400 need a serial port specified:
401 .sp
402 $
403 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver ols:conn=/dev/ttyACM0 \-\-show
404 .sp
405 This also works for protocol decoders, input modules and output modules:
406 .sp
407 $
408 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-protocol\-decoders i2c \-\-show
409 $
410 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-input\-format csv \-\-show
411 $
412 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-output\-format bits \-\-show
413 .TP
414 .B "\-\-scan"
415 Scan for devices that can be detected automatically.
416 .sp
417 Example:
418 .sp
419 $
420 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-scan
421 .br
422 The following devices were found:
423 .br
424 demo \- Demo device with 12 channels: D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 A0 A1 A2 A3
425 .br
426 fx2lafw:conn=3.26 \- CWAV USBee SX with 8 channels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
427 .sp
428 However, not all devices are auto-detectable (e.g. serial port based ones).
429 For those you'll have to provide a \fBconn\fP option, see above.
430 .sp
431 $
432 .B "sigrok\-cli \-\-driver digitek\-dt4000zc:conn=/dev/ttyUSB0 \-\-scan
433 .br
434 The following devices were found:
435 .br
436 Digitek DT4000ZC with 1 channel: P1
437 .TP
438 .BR "\-\-time " <ms>
439 Sample for
440 .B <ms>
441 milliseconds, then quit.
442 .sp
443 You can optionally follow the number by \fBs\fP to specify the time to
444 sample in seconds.
445 .sp
446 For example,
447 .B "\-\-time 2s"
448 will sample for two seconds.
449 .TP
450 .BR "\-\-samples " <numsamples>
451 Acquire
452 .B <numsamples>
453 samples, then quit.
454 .sp
455 You can optionally follow the number by \fBk\fP, \fBm\fP, or \fBg\fP to
456 specify the number of samples in kilosamples, megasamples, or gigasamples,
457 respectively.
458 .sp
459 For example,
460 .B "\-\-samples 3m"
461 will acquire 3000000 samples.
462 .TP
463 .BR "\-\-frames " <numframes>
464 Acquire
465 .B <numframes>
466 frames, then quit.
467 .TP
468 .BR "\-\-continuous"
469 Sample continuously until stopped. Not all devices support this.
470 .TP
471 .BR "\-\-get " <variable>
472 Get the value of
473 .B <variable>
474 from the specified device and print it.
475 .TP
476 .BR "\-\-set"
477 Set one or more variables specified with the \fB\-\-config\fP option, without
478 doing any acquisition.
479 .SH EXAMPLES
480 In order to get exactly 100 samples from the connected fx2lafw-supported logic
481 analyzer hardware, run the following command:
482 .TP
483 .B " sigrok\-cli \-\-driver fx2lafw \-\-samples 100"
484 .TP
485 If you want to sample data for 3 seconds (3000 ms), use:
486 .TP
487 .B " sigrok\-cli \-\-driver fx2lafw \-\-time 3000"
488 .TP
489 Alternatively, you can also use:
490 .TP
491 .B " sigrok\-cli \-\-driver fx2lafw \-\-time 3s"
492 .TP
493 To capture data from the first 4 channels using the Openbench Logic Sniffer lasting 100ms at 10 MHz starting at the trigger condition
494 0:high, 1:rising, 2:low, 3:high, use:
495 .TP
496 .nf
497 \fBsigrok\-cli \-\-driver ols:conn=/dev/ttyACM0 \-\-config samplerate=10m \\\fP
498 \fB\-\-output\-format bits \-\-channels 0\-3 \-\-wait\-trigger \\\fP
499 \fB\-\-triggers 0=1,1=r,2=0,3=1 \-\-time 100\fP
500 .TP
501 To turn on internal logging on a Lascar EL-USB series device:
502 .TP
503 \fBsigrok\-cli \-\-driver lascar\-el\-usb:conn=10c4.0002 \\\fP
504 \fB\-\-config datalog=on \-\-set\fP
505 .SH "EXIT STATUS"
506 .B sigrok\-cli
507 exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures.
508 .SH "SEE ALSO"
509 \fBpulseview\fP(1)
510 .SH "BUGS"
511 Please report any bugs via Bugzilla
512 .RB "(" http://sigrok.org/bugzilla ")"
513 or on the sigrok\-devel mailing list
514 .RB "(" sigrok\-devel@lists.souceforge.net ")."
515 .SH "LICENSE"
516 .B sigrok\-cli
517 is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some portions are
518 licensed under the "GPL v2 or later", some under "GPL v3 or later".
519 .SH "AUTHORS"
520 Please see the individual source code files.
521 .PP
522 This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann\-uwe.de>.
523 It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).