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

[Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>]

Rainer Zocholl wrote:


> 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?


do you have the OSD information, when you press ok or you change the 
channel, just before the sdate-time, or not? It has been reported that 
there is this problem, perhaps I didn't report all the changes (I should 
really make a diff for all this!)


> Maybe the (Syslog-)feature should be made selectable
> and should contain the channel too?

what do you exactly mean with 'selectable'? To be made selectable in a 
menu' if it has to be written or not?

and yes, it would be quite easy to print the channel too, what would you 
think it'd be good: only the number or also the name etc?


> Are there any infos for "error rate" too?

ja, I don't really know why I didn't put this value too, perhaps I'm 
used with the normale satellite receivers that give only the first two 
values. But this system is much better!


> Maybe the place on top of the "OK" is too valuable for such a
> "technical" informations?

probably it is, but I have two humax 5400 receivers(*) and whenever you 
change channel there appear a little column with an indicator of the 
signal strength. It's not too intrusive, but meaningful. This little 
modification I've made it's only to begin my little work, and much of 
the time was due to understand vdr's internals. I'd like to prepare 
something with a sort of indication bar for the ok menu (perhaps in the 
bottom, and 'selectable' (!?) in a configuration menu') and a real menu' 
entry to show a whole page of tech datas, both with the numeric value 
and the 'scroll bar' indication, updated 'realtime'. Then a feature to 
scan all the channels and write down a report with the values, and now 
stop with the imagination...


(*) although I consider vdr a far superior system than the most perfect 
traditional satellite receiver, I think there are many little things 
that should be so nice to 'port'...


ciao
as