Host Programs

The Host directory contains programs that run on a host PC that communicate with the Rainbowduino, or that are otherwise useful when communicating with a Rainbowduino.

• becho: A general-purpose utility that simply writes its arguments back to standard output.
• aecho: A utility similar to becho that instead writes its output to a serial port.
• rtime: Prints the current time as the four values that define the current time as kept by the software real-time clock in RainbowDashboard.
• clocktest: Used to determine the accuracy of the Rainbowduino's clock.
• rainbowd: A background process that creates a named pipe and copies anything written to the pipe to the Rainbowduino's serial port.
• rainbowclock: A background process that updates the Rainbowduino's clock every hour.
• rainbowwordclock: A background process that drives a word clock display on the Rainbowduino.
• rainbowmoodlight: A background process that drives a constantly-changing display of random colors on the Rainbowduino.
• rainbowmarquee: A background process that drives a scrolling message display on the Rainbowduino.