@eove/power-supply-com-talk

power-supply-com-talk

CLI to talk to power supply devices (it6932a, ...)

Install

Pre requisites

• node

MacOS

brew install zmq
git clone [e-mail]:eove/power-supply-com.git
cd power-supply-com/packages/power-supply-com-talk
npm install -g node-gyp
npm install -g

Linux, Raspberry

sudo apt-get install -y libglib2.0-dev libzmq3-dev
git clone [e-mail]:eove/power-supply-com.git
cd power-supply-com/packages/power-supply-com-talk
npm install -g node-gyp
npm install -g

Usage

✋ Read this first!

To know which USB ports are available on your machine: powerSupplyTalk list-ports. May return something like:

/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port
/dev/tty.usbserial-FTHJLQ5I

Then, just run for example: powerSupplyTalk com -p /dev/tty.usbserial-FTHJLQ5I -d

• To display debug messages, use the -d option
• You will need to pass a port name with the -p option.

Shell

You can interact with the running powerSupplyTalk com process to make it send commands.

Start the interactive shell in another terminal with: powerSupplyTalk shell while powerSupplyTalk com ... is running.

talk > help

Commands:

help [command...]               Provides help for a given command.
exit                            Exits application.
run [command] [args]            Run the given [command], with optional JSON formatted [args] (see. examples)
examples                        Show command examples

Tip: To be able to connect remotely, run: powerSupplyTalk com -p /dev/tty.usbserial-FTHJLQ5I -l 0.0.0.0:9876