iio_attr - Man Page

list IIO devices, and read/write device attributes

Synopsis

iio_attr [ options ] -d [device] [attr] [value]
iio_attr [ options ] -c [device] [channel] [attr] [value]
iio_attr [ options ] -D [device] [attr] [value]
iio_attr [ options ] -C [attr]
iio_attr -S <arg>
iio_attr -h

Description

iio_attr is a utility for displaying information about local or remote IIO devices. By providing an optional value, iio_attr will attempt to write the new value to the attribute.

Commands

The iio_attr utility has a few main options, which control what the main utility of the application is.
-d, --device-attr

Read and Write IIO device attributes

-c --channel-attr

Read and Write IIO channel attributes

-B --buffer-attr

Read and Write IIO Buffer attributes

-C --context-attr

Read and Write IIO Context attributes

-D --debug-attr

Read and Write IIO Debug attributes

-h, --help

Tells iio_attr to display some help, and then quit.

-V, --version

Prints the version information for this particular copy of iio_attr and the version of the libiio library it is using. This is useful for knowing if the version of the library and iio_attr on your system are up to date. This is also useful when reporting bugs.

-S, --scan [backends]

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.

Options

-u,  --uri

The Uniform Resource Identifier (uri) for connecting to devices, can be one of:

ip:[address]

network address, either numeric (192.168.0.1) or network hostname

ip:

blank, if compiled with zeroconf support, will find an IIO device on network

usb:[device:port:instance]

normally returned from iio_attr -S

serial:[port],[baud],[settings]

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:

data_bits:

(5, 6, 7, 8 [default], or 9)

parity_bits:

('n' none [default], 'o' odd, 'e' even, 'm' mark, or 's' space)

stop_bits:

(1 [default, or 2)

flow_control:

('0' none [default], 'x' Xon Xoff, 'r' RTSCTS, or 'd' DTRDSR)

local:

with no address part.

-i,  --input-channel

Filters channels by input channels only

-o,  --output-channel

Filters channels by output channels only

-s,  --scan-channel

Filters channels by scan channels only

-I,  --ignore-case

When pattern matching devices, channels or attributes, ignore case

-g,  --generate-code <arg>

Generate small C or python snippets that emulate what you are doing on the command line. Argument is a file name 'foo.c' or 'foo.py'

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

Referenced By

iio_attr(1), iio_genxml(1), iio_info(1), iio_readdev(1), iio_reg(1), iio_stresstest(1), iio_writedev(1).

04 February 2025 libiio-0.26 LibIIO Utilities