What Is It?

Cylon works hand-in-hand with Gort, our command-line toolkit for "RobotOps", a.k.a. "DevOps for Robotics" You can use it to scan for hardware, connect to devices, update firmware, and more!

Cylon also has it's own CLI tool, used to generate new modules.

This page will be talking about the Cylon-CLI tool, but if you'd like to find out more about Gort, check out its site.

How To Install

You can install the Cylon CLI tool through NPM. It's preferred to install it globally, to ensure the tool is available to you everywhere:

$ [sudo] npm install -g cylon-cli

After installing this, you should have the cylon command available.

Usage

The cylon command is run with a directory argument. It will then create a new Cylon module in this directory, prompting for confirmation if the target directory isn't empty.

  $ cylon leapmotion
    create : leapmotion
    create : leapmotion/.gitignore
    create : leapmotion/.jshintrc
    create : leapmotion/Makefile
    create : leapmotion/package.json
    create : leapmotion/lib
    create : leapmotion/lib/index.js
    create : leapmotion/lib/adaptor.js
    create : leapmotion/lib/driver.js
    create : leapmotion/spec
    create : leapmotion/spec/helper.js
    create : leapmotion/spec/lib
    create : leapmotion/spec/lib/index.spec.js
    create : leapmotion/spec/lib/adaptor.spec.js
    create : leapmotion/spec/lib/driver.spec.js

Without a directory argument, cylon assumes you want to create the module in the current working directory.

Running the command with the -h flag will provide a list of options:

$ cylon -h

  Usage: cylon [dir]

  Options:

    -h, --help       output usage information
    -v, --version    output the version number
    -f, --force      force on non-empty directory