[mythtv-users] Signal Monitor

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Barry Martin <barry3martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then I discovered a utility called "femon".  Works at the Terminal.  Can
> select adapters (tuner cards) but unfortunately one isn't certain which
> station the adapter is tuned to.

I'm still using pcHDTV HD-5500 PCI tuner cards, and I still use femon,
but you're correct, you generally don't know what you're tuned to. At
one point years back, MythTV used to always update the "startchan"
column of the cardinput whenever a channel was tuned by the user or
the scheduler. At that time I used to use a bash alias named chan that
did this:

'mysql -hlocalhost -umythtv -pxxxxxx -e "select cardid as Tuner,
startchan as Channel from cardinput" mythconverg'
+-------+---------+
| Tuner | Channel |
+-------+---------+
|     1 | 7.1     |
|     2 | 5.1     |
|     3 | 2.1     |
+-------+---------+

That table update stopped happening quite some time ago as far as I've
seen however, so that's no longer reliable. I posted here a long time
ago asking about that and didn't get any replies.

Tom