Provides information about Raspberry Pi hardware from the device hardware id, including manufacturer, release date and board revision. The script identifies over 50 of the variants available covering a manufacturing period commencing in 2012.
( Age-In-Days branch is piloting approximate age in days feature, useage bash mi.sh -l )
With numerous Raspberry Pi models and variations deployed it's challenging to understand the maturity of deployed hardware. moreinfo provides additional information such as the harware designs release date to permit improved management of legacy Raspberry Pi hardware.
Debian - Raspberry PI
If you don't have GIT installed, install with:
sudo apt install git
Clone the repository to your Raspberry Pi
e.g.
cd ~
sudo git clone https://github.com/OneOfTheInfiniteMonkeys/moreinfo.git
Following installation using the steps detailed in the Installation section, a folder will have been created in your home directory which contains the moreinfo BASH script.
To run moreinfo script enter the following commands:
cd ~/moreinfo
Run the script :
sudo bash mi.sh
To update
cd ~/moreinfo
run git
sudo git pull
d03114 Q2 2020 4 Model B 1.4 8 GB (Mfg by Sony)
moreinfo supports the following command line parameters :
| -a, --additional | Output additional information |
| -e, --everything | Output all information, equivalent to -t -l |
| -l, --limited | Ouptut More-Info data in table format only |
| Includes status of Over Voltage setting, which is recorded against the version number | |
| -nt, --notabs | Single line output ( i.e. exclude tables ) has no tabs in the output string |
| -t, --table | Ouptut a formatted table of source data. Equivalent to 'cat /proc/cpuinfo |
| -h, --help, -? | Displays this help and exits |
| -v, --version | Displays version information for ${App_Name} and exits |
| < Application Name > < Command > < Revision > ( < Date {yyyy-mm-dd} {hh:mm} > ) |
A typical output from moreinfo is shown below for a Raspberry Pi Model 4 B with 8Gb of memory:
d03114 Q2 2020 4 Model B 1.4 8 GB (Mfg by Sony)
The line consists of the following information :
| Device code | d03114 |
| Release date | Q2 2020 |
| Model | 4 Model B |
| Board version | 1.4 |
| Memory size | 8 GB |
| Manufacturer | (Mfg by Sony) |
The information reported is based on the 'Device code' identifier.
moreinfo will output a table when the command line optional parameter -l is used :
| Rel. Date | Q2 2020 |
| Rel. Model | 4 Model B |
| Rel. PCB Rev | 1.4 |
| Rel. Mem | 8 GB |
| Rel. Manf. | (Mfg by Sony) |
| Rel. Voltage | Clear |
moreinfo can be placed in any folder, the functional elements of the software comprise the files:
mi.sh
raspi-boards.txt
Alternatives to moving or copying the scripts files are possibly:
Create symbolic links to the moreinfo script mi.sh and raspi-boards.txt file.
or
Place the location of moreinfo in the PATH by editing the .profile file in the users home directoy.
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