man spicctrl (Commandes) - Sony Vaio SPIC control program
NAME
SPICCTRL - Sony Vaio SPIC control program
SYNOPSIS
spicctrl [-a|-b NUM|-B|-c|-C|-l NUM|-L|-p|-r|-R|-s|-S]
DESCRIPTION
spicctrl is utility that can use the Sony Programmable I/O Control device (SPIC), which is part of Sony Vaio's, to do a few simple things.
Currently, it can only be used to control the brightness on the LCD backlight or print out the battery charge information. The amount of brightness of the LCD is given as a number ranging from 0 (most dim) to 255 (most bright).
OPTIONS
- -a, --getacstatus
- Get AC adaptor status (plugged in or not).
- -b, --setbrightness=NUM
- Set lcd screen brightness.
- -B, --getbrightness
- Get lcd screen brightness.
- -c, --getbat1capacity
- Get the first battery full capacity.
- -C, --getbat2capacity
- Get the second battery full capacity.
- -l, --setbluetoothpower=NUM
- Set the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on).
- -L, --getbluetoothpower
- Get the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on).
- -p, --powerstatus
- Prints out a battery summary line.
- -r, --getbat1remaining
- Get the first battery remaining capacity.
- -R, --getbat2remaining
- Get the second battery remaining capacity.
- -s, --getbat1status
- Get the first battery status (present or not).
- -S, --getbat2status
- Get the second battery status (present or not).
FILES
- /dev/sonypi
- sonypi interface device file. You must be able to write to the file to use this program.
AUTHOR
spicctrl was written by Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>, and this man page was written by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>.