SPICCTRL(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet spicctrl — the Sony Vaio SPIC control program ✨ (it lives in the General Commands Manual, section 1, iykyk)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so spicctrl is a lil utility that can use the Sony Programmable I/O Control device (SPIC), which is part of Sony Vaio's, to do a few simple things. it's giving tiny but mighty 🫶

currently, it can only be used to control the brightness on the LCD backlight, or print out the battery charge information. that's it. that's the whole gig 💅

the amount of brightness of the LCD is given as a number ranging from 0 (most dim) to 255 (most bright). yes, 0 to 255, no in-between drama. periodt 🌈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a, --getacstatus — Get AC adaptor status (plugged in or not). like, is the charger in or not bestie 🔌
• -b, --setbrightness=NUM — Set lcd screen brightness. 👑
• -B, --getbrightness — Get lcd screen brightness. ✨
• -c, --getbat1capacity — Get the first battery full capacity. 🔋
• -C, --getbat2capacity — Get the second battery full capacity. 🔋
• -l, --setbluetoothpower=NUM — Set the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on). 🦋
• -L, --getbluetoothpower — Get the bluetooth device power state (0=off, 1=on). 🦋
• -p, --powerstatus — Prints out a battery summary line. 💖
• -r, --getbat1remaining — Get the first battery remaining capacity. 🍓
• -R, --getbat2remaining — Get the second battery remaining capacity. 🍓
• -s, --getbat1status — Get the first battery status (present or not). ⭐
• -S, --getbat2status — Get the second battery status (present or not). ⭐
• -f, --setfanstatus=NUM — Set fan speed (0=off, other values progressively increase the speed of the fan — note that there are only about 6 speed levels that map to the 8 bits). 🌬️
• -F, --getfanstatus — Get fan speed (0 should be OFF). 💀
• -T, --gettempstatus — Get temperature (Degree C) — useful under APM when there is no way to get the temperature otherwise. 🌡️

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /dev/sonypi — sonypi interface device file. You must be able to write to the file to use this program. no write permission, no vibes, that's the rule 🙈

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

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

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and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this one's dated 11 December 2001, and it's from the SPICCTRL(1) manual — go be the main character of your own laptop, slay 🧚💜