1SPICCTRL(1)                 General Commands Manual                SPICCTRL(1)
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NAME

6       SPICCTRL - Sony Vaio SPIC control program
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SYNOPSIS

9       spicctrl [-a|-b NUM|-B|-c|-C|-l NUM|-L|-p|-r|-R|-s|-S]
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DESCRIPTION

12       spicctrl  is  utility  that  can  use the Sony Programmable I/O Control
13       device (SPIC), which is part of Sony Vaio's, to do a few simple things.
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15       Currently, it can only be used to control the  brightness  on  the  LCD
16       backlight  or  print out the battery charge information.  The amount of
17       brightness of the LCD is given as a number ranging from 0 (most dim) to
18       255 (most bright).
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OPTIONS

21       -a, --getacstatus
22              Get AC adaptor status (plugged in or not).
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24       -b, --setbrightness=NUM
25              Set lcd screen brightness.
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27       -B, --getbrightness
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30       -c, --getbat1capacity
31              Get the first battery full capacity.
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33       -C, --getbat2capacity
34              Get the second battery full capacity.
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36       -l, --setbluetoothpower=NUM
37              Set the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on).
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39       -L, --getbluetoothpower
40              Get the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on).
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42       -p, --powerstatus
43              Prints out a battery summary line.
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45       -r, --getbat1remaining
46              Get the first battery remaining capacity.
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48       -R, --getbat2remaining
49              Get the second battery remaining capacity.
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51       -s, --getbat1status
52              Get the first battery status (present or not).
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54       -S, --getbat2status
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57       -f, --setfanstatus=NUM
58              Set  fan  speed  (0=off, other values progressively increase the
59              speed of the fan - note that there are only about 6 speed levels
60              that map to the 8 bits)
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62       -F, --getfanstatus
63              Get fan speed (0 should be OFF) -T, --gettempstatus Get tempera‐
64              ture (Degree C) - useful under APM when there is no way  to  get
65              the temperature otherwise
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FILES

68       /dev/sonypi
69              sonypi  interface  device file. You must be able to write to the
70              file to use this program.
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AUTHOR

73       spicctrl was written by Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>, and this  man
74       page was written by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>.
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