On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 23:54 -0400, Nick Nobody wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to point my antenna to get better ATSC reception with my > HVR-1600. I'm using "femon" from the dvbtools package on ubuntu 10.10 > without any luck. > > Here's a sample of the femon output (regular format): > nikosapi@mythbackend:~$ femon -c 3 > FE: Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend (ATSC) > status SCVYL | signal 012c | snr 012c | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > status SCVYL | signal 012c | snr 012c | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > status SCVYL | signal 012c | snr 012c | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > > And here's the human readable output: > nikosapi@mythbackend:~$ femon -c 3 -H > FE: Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend (ATSC) > status SCVYL | signal 0% | snr 0% | ber 0 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status SCVYL | signal 0% | snr 0% | ber 0 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status SCVYL | signal 0% | snr 0% | ber 0 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > > This is on a channel that has almost perfect signal strength on my TV. > I'm using "zap" to select the channel like so: > nikosapi@mythbackend:~$ zap -channels channels-11-08-21.conf CKMI-HD > Using frontend "Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend", type ATSC > Problem retrieving frontend information: Invalid argument > status SCVYL | signal 012c | snr 012c | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > > Any ideas?
What's wrong aside from the human readable output mode of femon being broken? Do you have a picture or not? You have a lock. You have a pretty high SNR value (my ATSC reception always has a value of less than 0x100). You have 0 block errors and uncorrectable errors. Regards, Andy > Thanks, > > nick _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
