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

• -?, --help

  Give this help list

• --usage

  Give a short usage message

• -V, --version

  Print program version