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As I'm currently trying to debug an issue with my SPI link, which is addressed through pigpio, I'd like to make pigpiod write warnings and debug messages (if such occur) to stderr.

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Errors are reported to /dev/pigerr on the Pi running the daemon.

So cat /dev/pigerr may provide useful information.

You can enable tracing of the API by using the pigs csi command.

Numbers 1 to 7 should uncover more tracing.

Try something like pigs csi 5 or pigs csi 6.

The results will be sent to /dev/pigerr.

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  • OK, thank you! pigs csi 5 was apparently the solution. I now get quite a lot of debug messages.
    – Neppomuk
    Commented Dec 7, 2018 at 21:54
  • Keep in mind that /dev/pigerr is a FIFO. Use cat as recommended, not tail -f, which will not show you anything.
    – Diomidis Spinellis
    Commented Apr 6, 2023 at 7:16

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