FireControl - IEEE 1394 Commander

This is a console oriented tool for Linux to access an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) bus. It can issue asynchronous read, write, and lock requests to some nodes on the bus, force bus resets, and send PHY packets. Furthermore, it provides bus reset notifications. The main advantage of this tool over other available tools (like gscanbus) is (besides not requiring a graphical interface) that it reports the exact acknowledge and response codes and, therefore, is very useful for debugging purposes.

This program has been developed by Manfred Weihs from 2002 to 2006 at the Institute of Computer Technology at Vienna University of Technology. Since 2007 the project is hosted at sourceforge.net.

Name Change

The name of this utility used to be 1394commander (up to version 0.1.1). Starting with version 0.2, it has been renamed to firecontrol because the project was moved to sourceforge.net and sourceforge does not support project names starting with a number.

News

January 12th, 2007: The project has been moved to sourceforge.net. Release 0.2 was created along with this move. This is the first release using the new name firecontrol.

Project Page

This project has a project page at sourceforge.net.

Source Code

Current and older releases can be obtained from the download area.

The current development version can be accessed via the Subversion repository.

Contact

The author of this tool is Manfred Weihs. He can be contacted under this email address: mweihs at users.sourceforge.net.

Links to Related Projects

This project is used by firecontrol:

Linux1394 provides the IEEE 1394 (FireWire) drivers for Linux as well as the library libraw1394, which is required for this program.

These are tools implemented by the same author:

Mpeg2ts1394dec receives MPEG-2 transport streams from a FireWire bus and presents them on the local display and sound card.
Amdtpplay plays audio streams received from a FireWire bus on the local sound card.