DVB (digital video broadcast) plugin

This plugin allows reading the status of a DVB card.

Functions

dvb(key)

gather status from the DVB frontend and return certain values

Valid keys are:

signal_strength	signal strength
snr	signal/noise ratio
ber	block error rate
ucb	uncorrected blocks

Note that this plugin always opens the first frontend on the first DVB card (which is /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend).

Example

Widget DVB {
    class      'Text'
    expression  dvb('signal_strength')*100
    prefix     'DVB'
    width       9
    precision   1
    align      'R'
    update      500
}

Widget DVB_Bar {
    class       'Bar'
    expression   dvb('signal_strength')
    expression2  dvb('snr')
    min          0
    max          1
    length       10
    direction   'E'
    update       200
}