Signal strength/quality?

[Barsk]

I have been fiddling with a new antenna and would really like to see what signal strength/quality I get. Is the info available anywhere?

[Reddwarf]

The Nrecord.log says something about strength/quality when it starts a recording/live-tv session, but I suspect the accuracy is only valid for Hauppauge cards. Anyway it gives you some indication.

[sub]

Its no shown anywhere in the app. Most devices report it differently, and I found with some devices that checking the signal strength with some devices causes distruptions to live tv or recordings, so I didnt include any functionality that uses this.

[smiffypr]

If you temporarily install NPVR 1.5.33, then open the status window from the tray icon, it shows a quality percentage which was useful to me when trying to isolate a signal/tuner issue. But note sub's warning above.

Smiffy

[JonnyCam]

If you download progDVB or dreamdvb (can't recall which), it has a signal & quality meter which can be usd in fiull screen, so that might be good for antenna tweaking

[martint123]

If you download progDVB or dreamdvb (can't recall which), it has a signal & quality meter which can be usd in fiull screen, so that might be good for antenna tweaking

One of them (can't remember which either) has an audio outpu of signal strength which I have used via an amp and speaker poked out of the window to align an aerial.

[smiffypr]

Would it be possible to have the signal strength in the status view like on 1.5.33, but selectable in the config so it doesn't cause the problem mentioned above, but is available when one suspects there is a signal issue?

[smiffypr]

I had more issues recently, I thought it was one of my tuners going faulty, but it turned out to be a temporary transmitter problem on one frequency.
It would have been really handy to have this facility, and would have saved me hours.

[vintdiesel]

I use ScanChannelsBDA_UK.exe in a cmd window. This program can be downloaded readily. Select which tuner you wan't to test, the frequency and bandwidth (8Mhz in NZ), and it gives a graphic for strength and quality including max and min levels. Strength is not much use compared with the quality level. Anything under 60% quality on a good day may result in bad transmissions especially when it rains.

I also purchased a DVT signal strength meter from JAYCAR to adjust my aerial, proves to be invaluable to get the best possible signal.

[smiffypr]

I tried that yesterday, and it told me there was no signal, but I've just tried it again and it is now working. Thank you.

Currently showing strength -15 and quality 100% on 586000MHz
strength 4 and quality 100% on 57000MHz
and strength -16 and quality 100% on 602000MHz
But it won't work on the second tuner of a dual tuner (which was the one I was trying to use yesterday).
On the third tuner its showing strengths of -9000/100%, -5500/60-100% and -10000/100%

So this demonstrates that different tuners do report strength in different ways (all Hauppauge), and that the third tuner is best not being used on the second frequency.

Very useful, thanks again.