This page is an attempt to document the various scripts and applications which come pre-installed on a stock Chumby distribution.

/proc

Another page has details on Chumby device settings information on /proc

/dev

Another page has details on Chumby device settings information on /dev

Scripts

All of these scripts are found in /usr/chumby/scripts/

Chumby inputs and outputs

ap_scan

ap_scan - Scans for wireless networks and outputs XML. If /tmp/hidden_ssid exists, the script will switch the SSID of the wireless interface to the SSID defined in /tmp/hidden_ssid before initiating the scan. If the interface was configured with a different SSID prior to a wireless scan that read from /tmp/hidden_ssid, the script will restore the original SSID when the scan has completed.

chumby_set_mute

Set the "mute" volume of the Chumby. Mute affects the Chumby speaker *and* the headphones.

chumby_set_pan

Set the "balance" level of the Chumby. Is this correct?

chumby_set_volume

Set the master volume of the Chumby.

Chumby Info

get_voltage.sh

With no arguments, reports voltages sourced from raw values found in /proc/chumby/battery-voltage. If battery or line is specified, gets specified value and converts to approximate voltage.

Version get_voltage.sh 1501 2007-07-14 22:41:01Z is broken for chumby 2008 version s/w 1.6.0 f/w 733 h/w 3.7, seems related to the values in /proc/chumby/battery-voltage not being correctly interpreted by this script and/or the values being written to /proc/chumby/battery-voltage being incorrect (or incorrectly formatted)

log-rollover-enable

Enable log-rollover in crontab

macgen.sh

Outputs wireless NIC hardware address

guidgen.sh

Extracts chumby putative ID from crypto processor

network_running.sh

Determines whether the network is running

chumby:/usr/chumby/scripts# ./network_running.sh
<network status="up" />

signal_strength

Reports the current wireless connection information, including signal strength

chumby:/usr/chumby/scripts# ./signal_strength
<wifi connected="1" signalstrength="100" linkquality="-38" noiselevel="-79" />

Chumby Settings

chumby_version

Displays the software, firmware and hardware versions

   syntax: /usr/chumby/scripts/chumby_version [-s -f -h -n -t --rfs1 --rfs2]
   -s     - display software version
   -f     - display firmware build number
   -h     - display hardware version number
   -n      - display hardware serial number
   -t      - display hardware time since last crypto processor power cycle
   --rfs1  - display RFS1 md5sum
   --rfs2  - display RFS2 md5sum

disable_intro

Disable the intro screen.

download_cp

Downloads the latest Control Panel configured for this chumby, typically to /tmp

enable_intro

Enable the intro screen.

reboot_normal.sh

Reboots the Chumby -- gracefully

Daemons and housekeeping

flashplayer_watchdog

Script that watches for flashplayer hangs or exits?

headphone_manager

Daemon responsible for disabling internal speakers when external headphones/speaker is plugged in

log-rollover

Script to roll over /var/log/messages

Usually invoked from crontab:

50 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * /usr/chumby/scripts/log-rollover

mkdevs

Simple script to automatically populate a /dev directory.

Mountmon scripts

See mountmon.conf for list of environment variables available on input
and required output values

mountmon_utils.sh

Utility functions used by mountmon scripts

add.sh

"Add" event script for mountmon

mount.sh

Mount event script for mountmon

remove.sh

Remove event script for mountmon

umount.sh

Unmount event script for mountmon

network_status.sh

Polls the status of the network interface and outputs XML to /tmp/chumby/network_status.xml

sync_time.sh

Synchronize clock with network time server

Called by sync_time_state.sh

sync_time_state.sh

Set or read the sync_time_state from /psp/use_ntp

time_zone.sh

update.sh

Autoupdate script

Linux stuff

script_locations.sh

Set default script directory locations (environment variable)

service_control

Service control wrapper script

Usage:
service_control service_name action [args]

This just gets the ETC_INIT_DIR value from script_locations.sh then invokes
${ETC_INIT_DIR}/${service_name} action [args]

service_getpid

Get process id(s) of running service

service_list

Get list of running services

Chumby Actions

start_control_panel

Responsible for starting the control panel in the correct mode

This is a pretty elaborate script. It checks for Control Panel updates on the network and USB drives. It checks and restarts the music player as needed, erases the display (manually!), and then starts the Control Panel flash applet.

It would be nice if we could replace this script with custom functionality in-place, but since it's on a read-only path, we can't. The Flash Applet can easily be replaced, however, by altering /tmp/cp_path or by supplying a replacement on a USB drive (see Chumby tricks ).

Calling this script directly is not enough to safely start the Control Panel.

start_intro

start_network

Starts the network after the network config has been written

start_network.sh

symlink to start_network

start_opening_anim

start_sshd.sh

Start the SSH Daemon

stop_control_panel

Stop the control panel widget from playing

update_now.sh

Sets the paranoid boot flag to boot into autoupdate mode and force an immediate reboot.

fb_cgi.sh

Sets up the cgi scripts required to use a browser to see what's on the chumby screen, see Chumby_tricks#Using a browser to see what's on your chumby

Chumby state wait

wait_for_link

Wait for the (network?) interface to establish link before proceeding

wait_for_opening

Wait for opening animation to start.

wait_for_usb

Wait for the usb subsystem to finish loading before proceeding

Applications

These applications are in /usr/bin.

Note: Busybox tools are not included in this list.

amixer

aplay

Play an audio file in voc, wav, raw or au formats.

 # aplay <file>

Use aplay --help for more options.

arecord

Record some audio using Chumby's mic. Take care because the file gets longer easyly. Use example:

 # cd /tmp
 # arecord -f cd test.wav

To play, use aplay. See arecord --help for more options.

btplay

Explained at Controlling BTplay

chumbhowld

This is an HTTP daemon listening on port 8082, and presents an XML response showing the services on the LAN advertising presence using zeroconf (aka Bonjour).

chumbipod

chumbipodd

Documented at Chumby as an iPod server.

chumbpipe

chumbpop

chumbradio

From the forum: "Require[s] an as-yet unreleased hardware accessory." [1]

chumbradiod

chumbyAuth

chumbyflashplayer.x

This is the Adobe Flash Lite 3 Player customized for the chumby

usage: /usr/bin/chumbyflashplayer.x -i <filename> [
  -m <32K memory blocks (384 = 12mb)>
  -x [X] <pixels (240)>
  -y [X] <pixels (320)>
  -s [X] <stride (x*2)>
  -n [X] <sound buffers {4..32} (16)>
  -b <samples/buffer (512)>
  -p [X] <sample rate {5000|11025|22050|44100|8000|16000} (44100)>
  -e [X] <channels {1|2} (2)>
  -k [X] <bytes/channel {1|2} (2)>
  -r [X] (rotate)
  -q [X] <quality {0|1|2} (2)>
  -d name[=value]
  -o <network open debug level {0|1|2} (2)>
  -D [X] (disable screen updates)
  -A [X] (disable audio)
  -u <1K url cache blocks (4096)>
  -a <cache aggression level (5)>
  -S <cache stats write file>
  -I <cache stats write interval (60)>
  -L <message options (3)>
     message options may be a combination of
       1 write to stderr
       2 add timestamp prefix to stderr
       4 write to syslog
 -l <log mask (127)>
          bitmap of values allowed to be displayed
                1=errors, 2=warnings, 4=info, 8=trace, 16=debug,
                32=AS trace, 64=AS debug, 128=realtime debug
  -M [X] <master_widget>
  -E <cert_list_file>
  -f <frame buffer options {0|1|2} (2)>
  -H <http and malloc options (9)>
     bitmap of options for http:
       1 use curl, 2 report memory usage, 4 verbose memory reporting,
       8 throttle http connection for large transfers,
                16 use localhost as alias for filesystem root (unsafe!)
                64 use verbose mode in libcurl
          additional bits for malloc debugging:
                32 report failed malloc() attempts
  -P <preload widget (may repeat)>
  -U (do not load /usr/widgets/preload.swf)
  -T <timing stats file>
  -K <ts quadrant key mapping {0|1} (0)>
  -Y <minimum pump delay in ms (42)>
  -Z <maximum pump delay in ms (83)>
  -z (disregard existing instance)
  -X (turn on mcheck for heap debugging)
  -t <update timing collection run in seconds (0)>
  -R (backtick result display diagnostics)
  -N <asnative & ts debug flags (0)>
  -w <backtick long timeout (10)>
  -W <action when backtick long timeout reached (0=continue, 1=abort backtick, 2=exit flashplayer)>
  -F <signal to send running instance {SIGTERM=15, SIGHUP=1, SIGUSR1=10, SIGUSR2=12)>
  -g <global heap in mb (0)>
  -G <alternate cfg file or none>
  -j <cache manager options[:cache data dir] (0)>
     bitmap of options:
     1 write cache contents on -S stats file write
  -v (display version information)
  -h (print this message)
] ([X] marks development-only options)

Undocumented switch: -Q -- unknown functionality

Use chumbyflashplayer.x -F 15 to kill the running instance. (Watchdog will restart it.)

Using -z erases the previous instance pid file, so subsequent restarts do not need -z since the original instance has been "forgotten". Also, -F will no longer work for "forgotten" instances. Don't use -z unless you have heavily hacked the Chumby to support two running instances of flashplayer. Using -F15 to kill the running instance is effective even if the running instance of chumbyflashplayer.x is not responding to SIGINT / SIGTERM - it will resort to SIGKILL.

chumbyradio

chumbytorrent

A simple BitTorrent client. Execute without arguments for a list of options.

With the -m option, it can be used as a daemon.

chumbytorrent -m /psp/.torrent/

This is useful, for instance, in conjunction with a CGI script that allows you to upload .torrent files to /psp/.torrent using your web browser.

cpi

Usage : cpi [--help] | [-p] [-a] [-d] [-r]

Interface with Crypto Processor

Options:

   --help      Display this help screen

   -k <KEYID>  Use the specified key ID (default is 0)
   -r <FILE>   Read query XML from FILE (ignored if valid -i specified)
   -w <FILE>   Write result XML to FILE (ignored if valid -o specified)
   -i          Read query XML from stdin
   -o          Write result XML to stdout
   -p          Write putative ID of specified key index to stdout
   -a    Set alarm to go off TIME seconds from now
   -s          Shutdown the chumby (will occur after all other options)
   -d          Write all CP data to stdout

curl

See cURL.

dcid

eject

exportKeys

fbwrite

printf() to frame buffer console

gdbserver

Remote Server for the GNU Debugger

headphone_mgr

hexdump

Dump a file or pipe in hex

imgtool

Puts an image on the Chumby screen or captures the screen to an image file.

Try this to see how it works:

chumby:~# /usr/bin/imgtool --mode=draw /www/images/chumby_logo.png

This paints, by default, on the widgets framebuffer. If you want to paint on the control panel framebuffer use the option --fb=1. The --fb=0 option should paint in the widgets framebuffer.

Here's an example of capturing the screen to an image file

chumby:~# /usr/bin/imgtool --mode=cap /tmp/capture.jpg

Syntax: /usr/bin/imgtool [options] file
       where file is output (mode=cap) or - to write to stdout, or
       if mode==draw, a .jpg or .png image file to write to frame buffer
       and options are any of the following:

       --debug                 Increase verbosity
       --resize=n (64)         Resize options (draw mode only)
       --gamma=f (2.2)         Screen gamma (for png decode)
       --quality=pct (30)      JPEG capture quality (0-100)
       --fb=n (0)              Write to / read from frame buffer (0 or 1)
       --fmt={jpg,png} (jpg)   Format to write (if mode==cap)
       --mode={cap,draw} (draw) Capture frame buffer to file (cap)
                                       or draw image file to frame buffer
       --help                  Display this message

Note: PNG capture is not supported yet on the version I have.

Here's a neat trick. Put this in /psp/cgi-bin/image

#!/bin/sh

echo "Content-type: image/jpeg"
echo "Refresh: 5; #"
echo ""

/usr/bin/imgtool --mode=cap -

Now open "http://your-chumby-ip-address/cgi-bin/custom/image". You should see your Chumby screen there. And it refreshes!

memstress

mountmon

mp3.x

This is a command line tool that will recursively walk a directory to locate MP3 files, extract their ID3 tags, and return an XML representation of what it finds.

example:

# mp3.x mp3://usb
<mp3_masterlist generator="mp3.x" ver="0.20" dirs="0" files="1">
 <mp3 artistname="Sonny Rhodes" songname="Firefly Main Theme" genre="12" track="PP" album="" comment="" year="0" size="786560">mp3://usb/examples/firefly.mp3</mp3>
</mp3_masterlist>

Chumby Software Applications, Scripts and Tools

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