On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 09:31 -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Nick Nobody <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Andy and Devin for your responses :)
> >
> > It seems both femon and I assumed the upper bound for the signal quality
> > and snr was 0xffff. That makes sense that femon would not accurately
> > report those values in the "human readable" format.
> >
> > Do either of you know off hand what the upper limit is for those values?
> > If not don't waste your time, I'll dig around for them.
> 
> For ATSC, the upper bound for SNR is 30.0 dB.  The value is in hex on
> a 0.1dB scale, so 0x12c = 300 = 30.0 dB.  For ClearQAM the upper bound
> is 40.0.
> 
> > Devin: In the past I'm pretty sure I've seen the signal strength and snr
> > values differ (albeit not by much) but for the most part they're exactly
> > the same.
> 
> There might be some slight variance because the two values are not
> retrieved in the kernel call.  So basically you're seeing the same
> value sampled twice, so you might see slight deviation even though the
> two values are printed on the same line.
> 
> Devin
> 

Cool, thanks for the info Devin.

nick


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