[vdr] Re: displaying the signal level and the snr

[Christian Schuld <chris@sonnengesicht.de>]

On Friday 29 March 2002 21:03, you wrote:
> >Hi, I've made a little modification to VDR to display the signal
> >strength and the snr on the osd whenever you press ok or you change
> >channel; it also puts the values in the syslog.

> Nice, long missed feature!
> But sorry, i got only
> Signal Strength: 0dBm, SNR: 0dB.
> ioctl returns status "noerror"(0) and sets the value to 0
> There must be a problem on deeper levels?
> (DVB-S 1.5 and 2.1, 2.1 primary, both running on the same channel.)

Only the DVB-S 1.3 (see ves1893.c) returns a SNR. You have to check the source 
to see which demodulator returns which signal indicators. IIRC there is none, 
which works for all revisions.

Gruß
Christian