Digital signal Strength Meter
WinTV Digital Signal Strength track
The WinTV Signal Strength Monitor shows the general power of the digital signal on the channel you may be tuned to. It will show the signal-to-noise ratio, the number of Received mistakes plus the few Uncorrectable mistakes.
The Digital Signal track will likely not work with analog television channels. It'll use ATSC and QAM digital TV channels on most Hauppauge electronic television tuner panels.
The Signal Monitor is an useful tool that could be used to either adjust your digital television antenna, or when used in combination with digital cable TV, to know if for example the digital signal is too poor to receive a signal without distortion.
With the Signal Monitor to regulate a digital television antenna:
Consider the Received mistakes signal, and position your antenna to attenuate the number of errors. After you have situated your antenna, see Uncorrectable Errors. In case it is 0, you're getting a digital television photo with no distortion. When you have Uncorrectable Errors after positioning the antenna, the electronic TV sign is just too poor to receive a Digital television program without distortion. In this case, you might like to start thinking about an antenna "booster" or a significantly better TV antenna.
Utilizing the Signal track observe the standard of an electronic digital television channel:
If you should be viewing an electronic digital TV channel which is on satellite tv (also known as 'clear QAM'), you should use the WinTV Signal energy track to understand reception quality of that channel. If the number of Uncorrectable Errors is 0, then you should see a undistorted TV picture. If there are Uncorrectable mistakes, your TV picture may have some quantity of distortion. In this case, you might want to check your cable system in your home and either eliminate splitters (each splitter you've got on a house cable system lowers the alert power) or utilize a "satellite tv signal booster".
The WinTV Digital television sign energy monitor is currently designed for these Hauppauge products:
- WinTV-dualHD
- WinTV-HVR-955Q and WinTV-HVR-950Q
- WinTV-HVR-2255, WinTV-HVR-2250, WinTV-HVR-2215, WinTV-HVR-2205 and WinTV-HVR-2200
- WinTV-HVR-1955, WinTV-HVR-1975 and WinTV-HVR-1950
- WinTV-HVR-850
- WinTV-HVR-1150
- WinTV-HVR-1250, WinTV-HVR-1255, WinTV-HVR-1200 and WinTV-HVR-1205
Installation:
Download and run the sign power install program. Once put in, there are a course known as Signal track when you look at the WinTV plan group. Its system name's hcwSigMon.exe
After running the WinTV Signal power track, in the event that you minimize it you will observe a symbol regarding the condition club on your personal computer display (normally it is in lower right side of one's monitor screen). It's going to explain to you the colors for the sign strength.
The colors / amounts suggest a measurement of the SNR (signal to noise ratio):
The higher the SNR number, the higher your digital television reception are going to be. We color coded rececption quality making it easier to figure out how good your digital TV reception is:
SNR signal:
Green - ideal sign level
Yellow - O.K. signal amount
Orange - bad sign amount
Red - no sign
You'll have a reception of this electronic television sign if Uncorrectable Errors is 0. A number of accepted errors wont affect your digital television reception, provided the Correctable Errors is 0. We show the accepted Errors to be able to better orient your electronic TV antenna.
In the event that you minimize the WinTV Signal Strength Monitor, you will notice a symbol regarding the status bar on your PC screen (customarily this might be inside lower right side of the monitor screen). It'll demonstrate the colors of signal strength.
Notes:
- The Faster/Slower signal tells the WinTV Digital Signal Stregth monitor how frequently to check the signal. The default is once per second.
- You could notice that it's possible to have "received mistakes" without any lack of quality of the movie flow. This is certainly normal. But when you have "uncorrectable errors", that is when your video clip stream will suffer.
- Some of the electronic television equipment decoders used on various WinTV panels lack all Status indicators inside image above. This does not affect the signal reception. If your item doesn't have a status indicator, it is greyed completely.