CLI or API access for Power Profiler Kit

[martin]

Hello,

I am looking into the Power Profiler Kit for measuring the power consumption of a custom hardware. I can see that the PC Application is really useful during development since it is straight-forward to set up. Is there an additional possibility to trigger / read measurements programmatically, be it a command line tool or API?

I've found the question https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/18293/power-profiling-kit-rtt-documentation but it is really quite old, maybe there's some update on an API / CLI interface.

The general idea is to perform measurements using the PPK during End-Of-Line testing. I can invoke any kind of script from within my test framework so any kind of SW interface would do the trick. Is this possible?

Thanks, Martin

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

There's an example here, https://github.com/chriswils/ppk_api, on how you can script the PPK in python. Have a look and see if that is something you can use.

[martin]

Will look into it, looks quite promising! So long story short: There's no official API (yet?) but it can still be controlled via RTT, and the lib you're providing should do the trick. Thanks !