<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>"Erik Hjertén" <erik@hjerten.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, November 9, 2013 10:16:54 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] Antenna pointing apps?<br><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">2013-11-09 17:34, Zig skrev:<br>
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On 11/9/2013 10:29 AM, Erik Hjertén wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">2013-11-07 21:51, Zig skrev:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/7/2013 1:55 PM, Michael T.
Dean wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:527BF022.4070303@thirdcontact.com">On 11/07/2013 12:53 PM, Zig wrote: <br>
<blockquote>The signal monitor does not work for
me. I have tried different themes, retro-wide, bluetube,
mythbuntu, and blue abstract. the signal osd does not
come up and the live TV keeps playing. As I recall the
video used to pause while the signal osd was being
displayed. <br>
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Try MythCenter-wide or Terra, at least. <br>
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Mike <br>
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Just tried Terra and MythCenter-wide... no luck. There is no
response at all to Alt-F7.<br>
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I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and Alt+F7 seems to be a shortcut to move
the window. I changed to CTRL+F7 and that seems to show a signal
monitor in Myth.<br>
/Erik<br>
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Thanks Erik, What tuner are you using? - Ziggy<br>
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I use one TBS6981 Dual Tuner for DVB-S and two FireDTV for DVB-T. <br>
/Erik<br></blockquote>Follow-up:<br><br>After a drastic change in plans, I ended up using my eyes to point the antenna.<br><br>I have a coax outlet in my front bedroom that isn't and likely won't be used for TV. I connected an amplified indoor antenna to it. I placed the antenna in my front window and just pointed it at the West Hills, where Portland's antennas are located.<br><br>My TVs and tuner cards were able to pick up over 40 channels. Many of them duplicates, but no biggy! All of the networks were represented.<br><br><br></div></body></html>