Manu will be possibility to receive from driver the raw statistic, too ? Igor -----Original Message----- From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> To: VDR Mailing List <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:22:58 +0400 Subject: Re: Multiproto updated Re: [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version1.5.14 > > Morfsta wrote: > > Manu, > > > > Firstly, thanks for all your work - it's appreciated. > > > > Is the interface working properly for reading the signal strength, BER > > and status? > > Currently, there is a small confusion. Most drivers in kernel, just > report some > crap as signal strength, snr etc. > > For the STB0899, STM helped so much, alongwith i had some help from one > of the Newtec guys, we were able to get the statistics in some proper form, > currently a dBm/10 scale is used. > > Since this scale is different from the in kernel existing scale of > randomness > to a standardized one, currently this change might look a bit nonsense > to you > as it will report different signal statistics as reported by the API. > > There will be a need to add one more ioctl, where the user can request the > driver to provide the statistics in a relative scale or an absolute > scale which > can be used for measurements too. > > The result would be that and end application can display the statistics > like > any other commercial STB, in a nice and beautiful way, while being quite > accurate (depending on the driver) without any hacks or workarounds to be \ > done in the application > > (The statistics that you get is very much device specific and not device > independant > and hence is not very easy for a user application to get proper > statistics as of now) > > With the change, all statistics related operations can be implemented > within the driver > such that the user is presented with standard and uniform statistics > across multiple > devices without the need to do device specific code as done by MythTV > etc, where it > looks for specific device drivers (really ugly) > > > The rotor plugin doesnt return anything and I can't get anything out > > of VDR-Femon. > > > > Is it working OK with the TT 3200? > > > The statistics is working with the STB0899, maybe i didn't follow what > exactly you are > looking at. If you can detail a bit, it would be much more helpful. The > STB0899 supports > TT S2 3200, KNC1 DVB-S2+, KNC1 DVB-S2, Pinnacle PCTV 450e and the > VP-1041 as of > now and the same signal related stuff is applicable to all. > > > BTW I have a TT3200 on order so I can compare the difference between > > the two cards soon. > > Currently, the STB0899 is _not_ calibrated for actual statistics. I have > requested > Azurewave for some sample devices to be sent to STM for proper > calibration of the > LUT's for the statistics. (Most probably, tomorrow or so STM will > receive the samples > at Grenoble) > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
