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Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T)

Added by A Blarb over 5 years ago

Is there a faster way than the web interface? It updates every 2 or 3 seconds. To adjust an anntena this is too slow.


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RE: Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T) - Added by saen acro over 5 years ago

Use

femon -H

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usage: femon [options]
     -H        : human readable output
     -A        : Acoustical mode. A sound indicates the signal quality.
     -r        : If 'Acoustical mode' is active it tells the application
                 is called remotely via ssh. The sound is heard on the 'real'
                 machine but. The user has to be root.
     -a number : use given adapter (default 0)
     -f number : use given frontend (default 0)
     -c number : samples to take (default 0 = infinite)

RE: Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T) - Added by A Blarb over 5 years ago

Thanks. Even on FreeBSD (multimedia/dvb-apps)
But it updates only once a second and I get nonsense values:
signal 49%, snr 0%
Human readable is: "Status SC"??

RE: Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T) - Added by saen acro over 5 years ago

Signal under 55-65 is not good.
Need to be more patient.

RE: Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T) - Added by A Blarb over 5 years ago

no, reception is ok now (tvh: signal -46dB, snr 24dB), but

# femon -H
FE: Silicon Labs Si2168 (DVBT)
Problem retrieving frontend information: Device not configured
status SCVYL | signal  49% | snr   0% | ber -5720 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
Problem retrieving frontend information: Device not configured
status SCVYL | signal  49% | snr   0% | ber -5720 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
^C

RE: Watch Signal Strength (DVB-T) - Added by saen acro over 5 years ago

BER value need to be ZERO "0"

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