[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with Frontend API

[davep <davep@cyw.uklinux.net>]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 17:10, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to read the signal strength via the FE_READ_SIGNAL_STRENGTH
> command,
> but I get 0 as result every time, even if the tuning was successful. Has
> anyone tried
> this with better results ?
>
> I call it like this inside the zap_to function in szap.c :
>
> long int strength = -1;
> ...
> result =3D ioctl(fefd,FE_READ_SIGNAL_STRENGTH,&strength);
>
> I'm using a WinDVB-S card,

I've noticed the same with my WinTV Nova-T card. Also FE_READ_SNR returns 
zero and FE_READ_BER returns random-looking garbage.

Dave


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