xaal.tools

A collection of tools for working with the xAAL bus.

This package contains the following tools:

• xaal-isalive
• xaal-info
• xaal-walker
• xaal-dumper
• xaal-log
• xaal-querydb
• xaal-cleandb
• xaal-send
• xaal-tail
• xaal-pkgrun
• xaal-keygen
• xaal-uuidgen
• xaal-shell

Usage

All tools have a help option (-h) that can be used to get more information about. For example:

Usage: xaal-isalive [options]

Options:
-h, --help      show this help message and exit
-c              disable color
-l              Enable logging
-a MCAST_ADDR   Multicast address
-p MCAST_PORT   Multicast port
-t FILTER_TYPE  only show given device type

Details

xaal-isalive

This tool is used to check if a device is alive on the xAAL bus, by sending a isAlive request to the devices

xaal-info

This tool is used to get information about a device, by requesting description / attributes / metadata.

xaal-walker

This tool is used to walk the xAAL bus and get information about all devices.

xaal-dumper

This tool is used to dump messages from the xAAL bus.

xaal-log

This tool is used to log attributes changed.

xaal-querydb

This tool is used to query the metadata database.

xaal-cleandb

This tool is used to clean the metadata database.

xaal-send

This tool is used to send a message (request) on the xAAL bus.

xaal-tail

This tool provide a tail-like event logging.

xaal-pkgrun

This tool is used to run packages (for example a gateway). It will load the package and run it. Example: xaal-pkgrun owm knx

xaal-keygen

This tool is used to generate a key for the xAAL bus.

xaal-uuidgen

This tool is used to generate a UUID.

xaal-shell

This tool is used to start a ipython interpreter with xAAL tools loaded.