motelist.py: A mote detection script for Contiki-NG

The motelist.py tool aims to automatically detect and output a list of sensor/IoT devices connected to a computer.

Unless stated otherwise within individual files, motelist sources are distributed under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license. This license gives everyone the right to use and distribute the code, either in binary or source code format, as long as the copyright license is retained in the source code.

Some parts of motelist.py (especially the Linux backend), are based on original work done by Janis Judvaitis and Atis Elsts.

Usage

$ ./motelist.py -h
usage: motelist.py [-c] [-o] [-b] [-p PATTERNS [PATTERNS ...]] [-h] [-v]

Automatically detect and print out a list of motes connected to this computer

optional arguments:
  -c, --csv             Print list in CSV format
  -o, --omit-header     Omit header row
  -b, --brief           Only print serial port paths
  -p PATTERNS [PATTERNS ...], --patterns PATTERNS [PATTERNS ...]
                        Search for additional port filename patterns, for
                        example you can pass -p "/dev/tty.usbserial*"
  -h, --help            Show this message and exit
  -v, --version         Prints software version

Standard output:

$ python motelist.py 
Port          Serial              VID     PID     Product                              Vendor           
------------  ------------------  ------  ------  -----------------------------------  -----------------
/dev/ttyACM0  L200015Z            0x0451  0xBEF3  XDS110 (02.02.05.01) with CMSIS-DAP  Texas Instruments
/dev/ttyACM1  L200015Z            0x0451  0xBEF3  XDS110 (02.02.05.01) with CMSIS-DAP  Texas Instruments
/dev/ttyUSB0  ZOL-B001-A20000777  0x10C4  0xEA60  Zolertia Firefly platform            Silicon Labs     

You can get the output in CSV format:

$ python motelist.py -c
Port;Serial;VID;PID;Product;Vendor
/dev/ttyUSB0;ZOL-B001-A20000777;0x10C4;0xEA60;Zolertia Firefly platform;Silicon Labs
/dev/ttyACM0;L200015Z;0x0451;0xBEF3;XDS110 (02.02.05.01) with CMSIS-DAP;Texas Instruments
/dev/ttyACM1;L200015Z;0x0451;0xBEF3;XDS110 (02.02.05.01) with CMSIS-DAP;Texas Instruments

You can ommit the header row with -o. You can also ommit all columns except the first one with -b. You can also combine the -cob options:

$ python motelist.py -ob
/dev/ttyUSB0
/dev/ttyACM0
/dev/ttyACM1

Links

GitHub repository: https://github.com/contiki-ng/motelist