Services API

Services are system processes running in the background which wait for incoming requests. When a process wants to communicate with a service, it first needs to get a handle to the named service, and then it can communicate with the service via inter-process communication (each service has a name up to 8 characters).

Handles for services are retrieved from the service manager port, "sm:". Services are an abstraction of ports, they operate the same way except regular ports can have their handles retrieved directly from a SVC.

sm:

Cmd	Name
0	#Initialize
1	#GetService
2	#RegisterService
3	#UnregisterService

Initialize

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x8000000A
2	0x00000001
0-1	Pid
0	"SFCI"
1	0x00000000
2	Always 0.

GetService

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x0000000A
0	"SFCI"
1	0x00000001
2	Service name, zero padded and casted to u64.

RegisterService

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x0000000C
0	"SFCI"
1	0x00000002
2	Service name, zero padded and casted to u64.
3	Max sessions? 32-bit integer.
4	Unknown bool

UnregisterService

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x0000000A
0	"SFCI"
1	0x00000003
2	Service name, zero padded and casted to u64.

Service List

Service names	Description	Notes
acc:u1, acc:aa, acc:su	Account services	u1: User, su: Admin
aoc:u	AddOn Content services
appletAE, appletOE	Applet services
apm, apm:p, apm:sys	?
arp:r, arp:w	Activity Report services?	r: Registrar, w: Writer
audin:a, audin:d, audin:u, audout:a, audout:d, audout:u, audren:a, audren:d, audren:u	Audio services
bgtc:t, bgtc:sc	Task services
bpc, bpc:r	BPC services
bsd:u, bsd:s	Sockets services
btm, btm:dbg, btm:sys	Bluetooth services?
caps:a, caps:c, caps:sc, caps:ss	Capture services	a: Album, ss: Screenshot
erpt:c, erpt:r	Error Report services
es	ETicket services?
fan	?
fatal:u, fatal:p	Fatal Error services	u: User, p: Privileged?
fgm	?
friend:u, friend:v, friend:m, friend:s, friend:a	Friend services
fsp-srv, fsp-ldr, fsp-pr	Filesystem services	srv: Main, ldr: Loader, pr: Program Registry
gpio	GPIO services
hid, hid:dbg, hid:sys	HID services
i2c, i2c:pcv	I2C services
irs, irs:sys	IR Sensor services?
lbl	Backlight services
ldn:m, ldn:s, ldn:u	Local Network Monitor services
ldr:pm, ldr:ro, ldr:shel	Loader services
lm	Log services
lr	?
mii:u, mii:e	Mii services
ncm	Content Manager services
nifm:u, nifm:a, nifm:s	Network Interface services
nim, nim:shp	NIM services	shp: eShop
npns:u, npns:s	?
ns:am, ns:su, ns:dev	NS Services	am: Application Manager, su: System Update
nsd:u, nsd:a	NSD services
ntc	?
nvdrv:a, nvdrv:s, nvdrv:t, nvmemp, mm:u	NV services
omm	?
ovln:rcv, ovln:snd	Overlay Notification services	rcv: Receiver, snd: Sender
pcie	PCIe services
pctl, pctl:a, pctl:s, pctl:r	Parental Control services
pcv, pcv:imm	?
pdm:ntfy, pdm:qry	Play Log services
pl:u	Shared Font services
pm:bm, pm:shell	Process Manager services
prepo:u, prepo:s, prepo:m, prepo:a	Play Report services
psm	?
pwm	?
set, set:fd, set:cal, set:sys	Settings services	cal: Calendar?, sys: System Settings
sfdnsres	DNS resolver services
spsm	?
ssl	SSL services
tc	?
time:u, time:a, time:s	Time services
ts	?
uart	UART services
vi:m, vi:s, vi:u	Display services