[mythtv-users] Antenna pointing apps?
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Nov 7 02:25:53 UTC 2013
On 11/06/2013 03:25 PM, Zig wrote:
> On 11/6/2013 12:16 PM, Stefan Jones wrote:
>> Good News: Portland's TV towers are on the west slope of the West
>> Hills, visible from my neighborhood.
>>
>> Bad News: My Myth setup is kind of in the wrong part of the house. I
>> am having trouble pointing my indoor antenna in a way that picks up
>> all stations.
>>
>> I would really love a live-feedback app that would read the signal
>> strength from my pcHDTV and/or Hauppague 2250 digital tuner cards.
>> Select a station, position the antenna, see the signal strength.
>>
>> Does anyone know of such a utility? A graph would be ideal, but a
>> numeric read-out would be fine.
>>
> ALT-F7 is in the key bindings table for SIGNALMON and it used to bring
> up an OSD with a signal strength meter when used during live TV. I
> used it years ago, and I just tried it now but it doesn't seem to do
> anything anymore. I tried it with the pcHD3000 and the HDHR. I can't
> recall if these were the tuner cards I had when it did work.
>
> Does this still work for anyone else out there?
Yes, the MythTV signal monitor should work. Have you tried other
themes? Perhaps yours has a broken OSD?
And you can get around the "MythTV setup is ... in the wrong part of the
house" problem with a couple of cell phones and a friend/kid/SO/...
(The modern-day walkie talkie.)
Mike
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