NAME

Comedi::Lib - Perl API for Comedilib

SYNOPSIS

use Comedi::Lib qw(:all);

# Open the device
my $device = comedi_open('/dev/comedi0');

# Get the driver and the board name of the board
my $driver_name = comedi_get_driver_name($device);
my $board_name = comedi_get_board_name($device);

print "Board name - $board_name\n";
print "Driver name - $driver_name\n";

# Close the device
comedi_close($device);

DESCRIPTION

The Comedi::Lib module provides a Perl API for Comedilib. Comedilib is a separately distributed package containing a user-space library that provides a developer-friendly interface to the comedi devices. This module consists of the functions that the Comedilib library provides (wrapper).

DEPENDENCIES

This Interface is dependent on the Comedilib library. Please download and install the latest version at http://www.comedi.org/.

The Comedilib library _must_ be found in your library path when using this module. The library is defaultly installed in /usr/local/lib -- in this case, be sure that the /usr/local/lib path is in your /etc/ld.so.conf.

EXPORT

None by default.

Exportable Functions

For a detailed description of each function see the Comedilib Function Reference at http://www.comedi.org/doc/x4629.html#FUNCTIONREFERENCE

comedi_close

comedi_open

comedi_loglevel

comedi_perror

comedi_strerror

comedi_errno

comedi_fileno

comedi_get_n_subdevices

comedi_get_version_code

comedi_get_driver_name

comedi_get_board_name

comedi_get_subdevice_type

comedi_find_subdevice_by_type

comedi_get_read_subdevice

comedi_get_write_subdevice

comedi_get_subdevice_flags

comedi_get_n_channels

comedi_range_is_chan_specific

comedi_get_max_data

comedi_get_n_ranges

comedi_get_range

comedi_find_range

comedi_get_buffer_size

comedi_get_max_buffer_size

comedi_set_buffer_size

comedi_do_insnlist

comedi_do_insn

comedi_lock

comedi_unlock

comedi_to_phys

comedi_from_phys

comedi_data_read

comedi_data_read_delayed

comedi_data_read_hint

comedi_data_write

comedi_dio_config

comedi_dio_get_config

comedi_dio_read

comedi_dio_write

comedi_dio_bitfield2

comedi_get_cmd_src_mask

comedi_get_cmd_generic_timed

comedi_cancel

comedi_command

comedi_command_test

comedi_poll

comedi_set_max_buffer_size

comedi_get_buffer_contents

comedi_mark_buffer_read

comedi_mark_buffer_written

comedi_get_buffer_offset

SEE ALSO

Linux Comedi: http://www.comedi.org/

AUTHOR

Manuel Gebele, <forensixs[at]gmx.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Manuel Gebele

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.