A system daemon for handling configuration and control of PoE Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) based on Broadcom and Realtek PoE controllers.
The realtek-poe is delivered as an OpenWrt package, part of the packages feed:
# opkg update
# opkg install realtek-poe
PoE configuration is read from the UCI "poe" section. This is found in the
/etc/config/poe file. Documenting the specific of each field is beyond the
scope of this README.
When running as a system daemon, using the provided init.d startup script, editing the config file will cause a configuration reload. This will apply new settings for the PoE ports, but leaves global settings untouched. To cause a reconfiguration manually:
# ubus call poe reload
In addition to the config file, realtek-poe provides a runtime interface for querying port status and managing ports. The format is auto-documented by:
# ubus -v list poe
While port configuration must be changed by editing the config, power to
individual ports may be dynamically toggled with the manage command:
# ubus call poe manage '{"port" : "lan3", "enable" : False}'