iio_info(1)

NAME
iio_info - list IIO devices and device attributes

SYNOPSIS
iio_info [ options ] -x <xml_file>
iio_info [ options ] -n <hostname>
iio_info [ options ] -u <uri>

DESCRIPTION
iio_info is a utility for displaying information about local or remote IIO devices

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Tells iio_info to display some help, and then quit.

-x, --xml
    Use the XML backend with the provided XML file

-n, --network
    Use the network backend with the provided hostname

-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_info -s

    serial:[port]

    local
        with no address part

-S, --scan
    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 availble.

-a, --auto
    Scan for available contexts and if only one is available use it.

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

SEE ALSO
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/

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