On 3/24/08, P. van Gaans <w3ird_n3rd@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/24/2008 01:21 PM, Patrik Hansson wrote: > > Hello > > I couldn't find a mailinglist for dvb-apps so i hope this is ok. > > > > I would like to add timestamp to the output of femon -H in some way. > > This so I can monitor ber value over a long timeperiod and see the > > timedifference between some very high ber-values. > > > > I found a patch from 2005 but was unable to manually use the code in > > dvb-apps/utils/femon/femon.c > > I have zero skill in c/c++ but for someone with some skill i would > > belive it would be very easy ? > > > > Ps. If there is a better place for this kind of question please tell me. Ds. > > > > / Patrik > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb mailing list > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > > > Hi, > > I had a similar issue, but solved it. Not sure if this works with a > recent femon, but if it doesn't you should be able to make some changes > to my method to make it work. Here's the trick: > > 1. Tune to whatever you want to measure. > 2. Execute in a terminal: "femon -h -c 3600 > filename.signal". 3600 is > for one hour, if you want to test for e.g. 10 hours enter 36000. The > resulting file will usually be under 5MB so don't worry. Good advice: > put the current time in the filename because brains are unreliable. > 3. That's quite a bit to read. But we can do it faster: > > Total amount of errors: "cat filename.signal | grep -c unc[^\s][^0]". > You might need to change the regex for other femon versions. > > All errors and when they occured: "cat filename.signal | grep -n > unc[^\s][^0]". -n will make it show line numbers. If the first error, > for example, is on line 1800 that means the first error occured half an > hour after the start of the measurement. > > Hope this helps. > > P. van Gaans > Thank you, it will have to do. Using grep -v "ber 0" -n though but that should result in the same. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
