This tool is used to control the USB-SENTINEL device.
Once connected, the device presents itself to the system as a TTYACM device.
This tool just opens this TTYACM device and sends serial commands to it.
Switch ON power on the slave USB port:
sentinelcmd /dev/ttyACM0 -on
Switch OFF power on the slave USB port:
sentinelcmd /dev/ttyACM0 -off
Power cycle (OFF-wait-ON) the slave USB port: In this example the following sequence is performed:
- Power OFF slave USB port.
- Wait 5 seconds
- Power ON slave USB port
sentinelcmd /dev/ttyACM0 -cycle 5