[mythtv-users] How to read femon values?

Ismo Tanskanen ismot at telemail.fi
Sun Nov 25 09:57:25 UTC 2007


How should values given from femon commandline be read?
I do not understand meaning of them. Also I can't find any help 
regarding femon.

Here is what I get if I run femon on the command line:

[root at mediaserver etc]# femon
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0'
FE: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T (TERRESTRIAL)
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000004c4 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 00000590 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 00000536 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 00000526 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 00000530 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004f0 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000005c4 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000004d6 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 0000054e | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 0000060a | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000005b2 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 0000056a | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 0d | signal 8c8c | snr f8f8 | ber 00000516 | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 00000518 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 00000430 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000004aa | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 0000050c | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000004c4 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004f2 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004d8 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 0000056a | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 0000049c | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004ea | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004e4 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr fefe | ber 000004ea | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr fefe | ber 000004ce | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK

Is there anything useful data to check signal strength and ber?

-kane



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list