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Control with Commands

In addition to viewing data from the Pironman 5 and controlling various devices through the Dashboard, you can also use commands to control them.

Note

For the Home Assistant system, you can only monitor and control the Pironman 5 through the dashboard by opening the webpage at http://<ip>:34001.

View the Basic Configurations

The pironman5 module offers basic configurations for Pironman, which you can review with the following command.

sudo pironman5 -c

Use pironman5 or pironman5 -h for instructions.

Pironman 5 NAS command line interface

positional arguments:
  {start,restart,stop}  Command

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Show version
  -c, --config          Show config
  -dl {debug,info,warning,error,critical}, --debug-level {debug,info,warning,error,critical}
                        Debug level
  --background [BACKGROUND]
                        Run in background
  -rd, --remove-dashboard
                        Remove dashboard
  -cp [CONFIG_PATH], --config-path [CONFIG_PATH]
                        Config path
  -eh [ENABLE_HISTORY], --enable-history [ENABLE_HISTORY]
                        Enable history, True/true/on/On/1 or False/false/off/Off/0
  -u [{C,F}], --temperature-unit [{C,F}]
                        Temperature unit
  -oe [OLED_ENABLE], --oled-enable [OLED_ENABLE]
                        OLED enable True/true/on/On/1 or False/false/off/Off/0
  -or [{0,180}], --oled-rotation [{0,180}]
                        Set to rotate OLED display, 0, 180
  -os [OLED_SLEEP_TIMEOUT], --oled-sleep-timeout [OLED_SLEEP_TIMEOUT]
                        OLED sleep timeout in seconds

Note

Each time you modify the status of pironman5.service, you need to use the following command to make the configuration changes take effect.

sudo systemctl restart pironman5.service

Verify the pironman5 program status using the systemctl tool.
```
sudo systemctl status pironman5.service
```
Alternatively, inspect the program-generated log files.
```
ls /var/log/pironman5/
```

Check the OLED Screen

When you have installed the pironman5 library, the OLED screen displays CPU, RAM, Disk Usage, CPU Temperature, and the Raspberry Pi’s IP Address, and it shows this every time you reboot.

If your OLED screen does not display any content, you need to first check if the OLED’s FPC cable is connected properly.

Then you can check the program log to see what might be the problem through the following command.

cat /var/log/pironman5/pm_auto.oled.log

Or check if the OLED’s i2c address 0x3C is recognized:

i2cdetect -y 1

Setting the OLED

When the OLED is installed and rebooted, it will light up.

You can turn on/off the OLED using the following command. The argument could be on or off.

sudo pironman5 -oe on

You can set the rotation of the OLED using the following command. The argument could be 0 or 180.

sudo pironman5 -or 180

To protect the OLED, the OLED will be turned off. After the OLED is turned off, you can click the power button to wake up the OLED. After a certain time, the OLED will be turned off again. You can use the following command to adjust the OLED’s sleep time. The range is (5s to 600s). The following command sets the OLED’s sleep time to 10s.

sudo pironman5 -os 10