tikey - Man Page

remotely control a graphing calculator

Description

tikey allows you to type commands on a connected TI graphing calculator, using the “remote control” protocol supported by newer calculator models.

The command-line arguments will be typed out as ASCII strings. If you need to send a special keycode, you can write it as an octal or hexadecimal value preceded by `\' or `\x' (e.g., `\111' or `\x49' for the `Y=' key on the TI-83 series.) See the calculator SDK documentation for the actual keycode values.

Link Options

-c, --cable=type[:port]: Use the specified link cable (if unspecified, tikey will search for USB cables connected to the system.) The cable type may be either the full name (GrayLink, BlackLink, Parallel, SilverLink, DirectLink, VTI, TiEmu, UsbKernel) or the 3-letter abbreviation (gry, blk, par, slv, usb, vti, tie, dev). For serial- and parallel-port link cables, a port number must also be specified.
-m, --calc=type: Use the specified calculator model (if unspecified, tikey will try to determine the calculator model automatically.)
--timeout=n: Wait for up to n milliseconds for the calculator to respond.

Other Options

-v, --verbose: Print out details of link operations.
--help: Print out program version information.
--version: Print out program version information.

Environment Variables

TITOOLS_CABLE: Default link cable to use, if the -c option is not specified.
TITOOLS_CALC: Default calculator model to use, if the -m option is not specified.
TITOOLS_TIMEOUT: Default timeout value in milliseconds.

Author

Benjamin Moody <floppusmaximus@users.sf.net>

Referenced By

tiget(1), tiinfo(1), tils(1), tiput(1), tirm(1), tiscr(1).

August 2010 TITools 0.1