Services API

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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: Reader, 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