nfc-scan-device(1)

nfc-scan-device1

Scan nfc devices

Usage

nfc-scan-device [options]

Overview

nfc-scan-device is a utility for listing any available device compliant with libnfc. It can optionnally display device's capabilities.

Options

-v

Tells nfc-scan-device to be verbose and display detailed information about the devices found.

-i

Tells nfc-scan-device to allow intrusive scan (eg. serial ports scan). This is equivalent to set environment variable LIBNFC_INTRUSIVE_SCAN to "yes".

Examples

For a SCL3711 device (in verbose mode):

- SCM Micro / SCL3711-NFC&RW:
pn53x_usb:002:017
chip: PN533 v2.7
initator mode modulations: ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps), FeliCa (424 kbps, 212 kbps), ISO/IEC 14443-4B (847 kbps, 424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps), Innovision Jewel (106 kbps), D.E.P. (424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps)
target mode modulations: ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps), FeliCa (424 kbps, 212 kbps), D.E.P. (424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps)

Licence

libnfc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.
libnfc-utils and libnfc-examples are covered by the the BSD 2-Clause license.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–10
  2. 11–Arch

Bugs

Please report any bugs on the libnfc issue tracker at:
https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/issues

Authors

Roel Verdult <[email protected]>,
Romain Tartière <[email protected]>,
Romuald Conty <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Romuald Conty <[email protected]>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

From libnfc 1.8.0-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.