RPI Info

Last update: 2019-07-18

This library is written in coffee-script and allow to display information about the current RaspberryPi. If no revision is provided, /proc/cpuinfo is parsed to retrieve the revision.

Rpis infos are taken from :

• http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/09/checking-your-raspberry-pi-board-version/
• http://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory

Installation

rpi-info can be installed globally and used at command line or programmatically.

[sudo] npm install [-g] rpi-info

Usage

Usage: rpi-info [options] [command]

Commands:

  field|f <field>  [version, model, releaseDate, revisions]
  after|a <date>   Check if this raspberry pi is released after the given date
  before|b <date>  Check if this raspberry pi is released before the given date
  unknown|u        Check if this raspberry pi has a recognized hardware revision
  all              Show all available infos for this raspberry pi

Options:

  -h, --help              output usage information
  -V, --version           output the version number
  -r, --revision [value]  Revision
  -s, --silent            Display raw information only

By default :

rpi-info

render something like :

RaspberryPi 3 Model B released Q1 2016
Revision : 'a02082'
All revisions availables for this kind of device : [ 'a02082', 'a22082' ]

Programmatically

var RPI = require('rpi-info');
var rpi = new RPI(revision); // revision is optionnal - if not present, /proc/cpuinfo is parsed
 
rpi.getRevision();
 
rpi.getVersions();
 
rpi.getField(name);
 
rpi.getVersion();
 
rpi.getModel();
 
rpi.getReleaseDate();
 
rpi.getAllRevisions();
 
rpi.isReleasedBefore(date);
 
rpi.isReleasedAfter(date)
 
rpi.isUnknown();
 
rpi.getInfos();