In addition to being a graphical application in which you can browse eye trackers and work with selected eye tracker, you can also launch Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager with command line arguments to directly trigger its features. This allows you to reuse some of the features of Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager instead of implementing your own version (using the Tobii Pro SDK).
Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager is an Electron based application, which on some systems means it gets installed in a non-standard location.
| OS | Path |
|---|---|
| Windows | %localappdata%\Programs\TobiiProEyeTrackerManager\TobiiProEyeTrackerManager.exe * |
| Linux | /opt/TobiiProEyeTrackerManager/tobiiproeyetrackermanager (can be called by alias tobiiproeyetrackermanager) |
| macOS | /Applications/TobiiProEyeTrackerManager.app/Contents/MacOS/TobiiProEyeTrackerManager |
When launching Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager from command line, you can use the following options and arguments.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
--device-sn=<serial number> |
Selects eye tracker based on serial number. Can be used in combination with --mode. Example: --device-sn=IS404-100106045321 |
--device-address=<uri> |
Selects eye tracker based on address (URI). Can be used in combination with --mode. Example: --device-address=tobii-ttp://is404-100106045321 |
--help |
Show the help text. |
--mode=[displayarea|usercalibration] |
displayarea
Launch the "Physical Eye Tracker Setup" (aka display area configuration) module.
usercalibration
Launch the calibration module.
Needs to be combined with --device-sn or --device-address. Example: --mode=usercalibration --device-address=tobii-ttp://is404-100106045321 |
--screen=<screen nr> |
Select screen to display on. Can be used in combination with --mode.
Example: --mode=usercalibration --device-address=tobii-ttp://is404-100106045321 --screen=1
|
--version |
Show the version of Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager. |
Tho following status codes can be expected to be returned as exit code when Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager terminates.
| Exit code | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | EXIT_OK |
| 30 | EXIT_ERROR_CALIBRATION_CANCELLED |
| 31 | EXIT_ERROR_CALIBRATION_FAILED |
| 32 | EXIT_ERROR_DISPLAYAREA_FAILED |
| 33 | EXIT_ERROR_DISPLAY_AREA_NOT_SET |
| 44 | EXIT_ERROR_NOT_FOUND |
| 51 | EXIT_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT |
| 52 | EXIT_ERROR_MISSING_ARGUMENT |
| 53 | EXIT_ERROR_UNKNOWN_MODE |
In the API reference guide for each binding there are code examples on how to launch Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager (with CLI options) from within your application. In each binding's API reference guide, expand the Examples node and look for a file called either call_eyetracker_manager or CallEyeTrackerManager.
Launching Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager from .NET
Launching Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager from Python