iio_readdev - Man Page

iio_readdev [ options ] [-n <hostname>] [-t <trigger>] [-T <timeout-ms>] [-b <buffer-size>] [-s <samples>] <iio_device> [<channel> ...]

iio_reg is a utility for reading buffers from connected IIO devices, and sending resutls to standard out.

-h,  --help

Tells iio_readdev to display some help, and then quit.

-V,  --version

Prints the version information for this particular copy of iio_readdev and the version of the libiio library it is using. This is useful for knowing if the version of the library and iio_readdev 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.

-t --trigger

Use the specified trigger, if needed on the specified channel

-b --buffer-size

Size of the capture buffer. Default is 256.

-s --samples

Number of samples (not bytes) to capture, 0 = infinite. Default is 0.

-T --timeout

Buffer timeout in milliseconds. 0 = no timeout. Default is 0.

-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_readdev -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.

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

You use iio_readdev in the same way you use many of the other libiio utilities. You should specify a IIO device, and the specific channel to read. Since this is a read, channels must be input. If no channel is provided, iio_readdev will read from all input channels. If no device is provided, iio_readdev will print a few examples:

This captures 1024 samples of I and Q data from the USB attached AD9361, and stores it (as raw binary) into the file samples.dat

And plots the data with gnuplot.

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/

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

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