2. Run

Introduction

The ebusd binary offers a lot of command-line options to adjust its behaviour. It can either be run as a daemon or in foreground.

Device options

• -d, --device=DEV
  Use DEV as eBUS device (serial device or ip:port) [/dev/ttyUSB0]

• -n, --nodevicecheck
  Skip serial eBUS device test

Message configuration options

• -c, --configpath=PATH
  Read CSV config files from PATH [/etc/ebusd]

• --checkconfig
  Only check CSV config files, then stop

• --pollinterval=SEC
  Poll for data every SEC seconds (0=disable) [5]

eBUS options

• -a, --address=ADDR
  Use ADDR as own bus address [FF]

• --acquireretries=COUNT
  Retry bus acquisition COUNT times [2]

• --acquiretimeout=USEC
  Stop bus acquisition after USEC us [9400]

• --answer
  Actively answer to requests from other masters

• --numbermasters=COUNT
  Expect COUNT masters on the bus [5]

• --receivetimeout=USEC
  Expect a slave to answer within USEC us [15000]

• --sendretries=COUNT
  Repeat failed sends COUNT times [2]

Daemon options

• -f, --foreground
  Run in foreground

• --localhost
  Listen on 127.0.0.1 interface only

• -p, --port=PORT
  Listen for client connections on PORT [8888]

Log options

• -l, --logfile=FILE
  Write log to FILE (only for daemon) [/var/log/ebusd.log]

• --logareas=AREAS
  Only write log for matching AREAS:
  main,network,bus,update,all [all]

• --loglevel=LEVEL
  Only write log below or equal to LEVEL:
  error/notice/info/debug [notice]

• --lograwdata
  Log each received/sent byte on the bus

Dump options

• --dumpfile=FILE
  Dump received bytes to FILE [/tmp/ebus_dump.bin]

• --dumpsize=SIZE
  Make dump files no larger than SIZE kB [100]

• -D, --dump
  Enable dump of received bytes

Other options

• -?, --help
  Give this help list

• --usage
  Give a short usage message

• -V, --version
  Print program version