Silver Shield PM Control for Linux 2.4b review

Silver Shield PM Control for Linux (formerly known as sispm_ctl) is an application enabling the use of the GEMBIRD SiS-PM device unde

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Mondrian Nuessle and Andreas Neuper

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Silver Shield PM Control for Linux (formerly known as sispm_ctl) is an application enabling the use of the GEMBIRD SiS-PM device under Linux.

The SiS-PM is an itelligent advanced surge protector with unique features: 4 sockets are manageable from the PC via USB port (GEMBIRD LTD).

Silver Shield PM Control for Linux software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the LICENCE file. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the LICENCE file for details.

Thanks go out to Gembird for the kind support, the libusb project, the USB snoopy team, Andreas Neuper and the other contributors.

This software is also included in the driver package from Gembird and available from the Gentoo/Portage tree (courtesy Wolfram Schlich).

Installation:

You need libusb-0.15 or newer installed on your system (if you have an older version of libusb it MIGHT work, you'll have to tweak configure.in though and call scripts/bootstrap. Nevermind if this is just glibberish for you.

sis_pmctl is only available as sourcecode distribution. To install on your system run:

tar xzvf sispm_ctl-2.1.tar.gz
cd sispm_ctl-2.1
./configure
make
make install

Note: The compiled application is named sispmctl since 2.0 without the underscore!

This installs the applicationsis pmctl in /usr/local/bin. If you want to install the application to a different directory,

call ./configure --prefix=/your/preferred/dir.

The web-interface skins are installed under $prefix/httpd/sispm_ctl/skin?; the default skin is pre-selected with the doc symbolic link in the $prefix/httpd/sispm_ctl directory.

Options:

-h Print usage information
-s Scan all universal serial buses for devices with the ID 04B4:FD11.

-l stay listening on network port for http protocol.

-p IP network port (default: 2638) for listener. There is no authentication implemented yet.

-u give the directory path where pages lay, that are served (default: /usr/local/httpd/pmctl ). The Web path component is completely ignored for security reasons.

-b switch the buzzer on and off (I was not able to test it, mine does not hat it)

-o switch the named outlet to "ON"

-f switch the named outlet to "OFF"

-g show the status of the named outlet

-d Choose not the first but the named one in the sequence of detected devices (see scan option)

-n do not print "ON" and "OFF", but "1" and "0" instead

-q do neither print explanations nor disclaimers except it is requested

-v print version & copyright