<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Nathan Faust" <faustnathan@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, November 6, 2013 10:46:05 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] Antenna pointing apps?<br><br><p dir="ltr">The command line tool azap, part of the linuxtv zap tools will tune a channel and give you signal strength and snr.<br>
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<div id="DWT216" class="gmail_quote">On Nov 6, 2013 1:31 PM, "Mark J. Small" <<a href="mailto:msmall@eastlink.ca" target="_blank">msmall@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On November 6, 2013 06:16:02 PM Stefan Jones wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I would really love a live-feedback app that would read the signal strength</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> from my pcHDTV and/or Hauppague 2250 digital tuner cards. Select a station,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> position the antenna, see the signal strength.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Does anyone know of such a utility? A graph would be ideal, but a numeric</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> read-out would be fine.</p>
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<p id="DWT215" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">It's a shame that you are not using an HDHomerun. They have an Android app that works really well for this sort of thing. Could you borrow one for aiming?</p></div></blockquote><br></div></blockquote>Thanks, Nathan. I'll look for the linuxtv tools. <br><br>If there were an easy way to run a coax down from the attic, I'd put a big antenna up there, but for now I'm stuck with an amplified indoor.<br><br>(Amazing: There is one ANALOG TV channel available in my neighborhood. A repeater for the CW affiliate that serves Portland's far-west suburbs. I can watch it on my TV. It looks just like distant TV stations looked when I was a kid.)<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono';font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>