Broadcast TV signal quality gUI (as in antenna-dtv)

[Somewhat Reticent]

antenna-dtv
is "a free and open-source dvb-t tuner for linux desktops" to:
* Scan the sky for new services
* Continuously monitor signal status
* Search through known channels and tune
* Search and manage favorite channels
* See what's on (i.e. listen to radios and watch tvs)
* Record streams while watching
* Read teletext

written in python using gtk and libglade for GUI
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says it may want:
* python (>2.6)
* python-gtk
* python-glade2
* tzap and femon (of dvb-apps)
* w_scan (see w-scan)
* xine (see xine-ui)
* xdg-user-dirs
* alevt
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I think it could use updated packaging (just trying to be thorough)
and maybe choice of media players?
Says it has a signal-strength-meter
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main caveat: "built for Ubuntu"

[SwampRabbit]

This is an 11 year old application, it doesn't look like it is maintained anymore, which stinks because it looks fairly useful. :(

[JayM]

Version 12 was released in November 2017 so it's not quite that old. https://sourceforge.net/projects/antenna-dtv/files/ (But will it work in Buster? It's a Python app so maybe.)

[SwampRabbit]

oh nvm... thanks for the link Jay, I used what was initially provided, then checked Repology.

I'll look at it more.

Edit, yeah I see how you got there, I didn't use the BIG download button, I went looking for the source files instead.

Edit again... looks like they aren't providing the actual source for version 0.12, I'll look at 0.11.01.20 for now... send and email to the developer I guess.

[Stevo]

Repology can't find it for me in any distro.

[JayM]

It's in the RPM Sphere extra packages repo for Fedora and that's all: https://repology.org/project/python:antennadtv/versions

[Somewhat Reticent]

Maybe this would be a good moment for some perspective
What (I believe) this uniquely brings to the table is User-Interface
It makes signal strength and quality accessible to (non-coder) tuning
I haven't seen anything else that does that for the ?zap dvb-apps, not even by ncurses
(I'm not sure it helps to tie that aspect to a particular player.)
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(And thanks for taking a quick look-about!)

[Stevo]

I thought Kaffeine made tuning into those stations rather easy, but it's been some time since I used it for that. I was also able to use VLC.

Antenna does look fancier, though.

[Somewhat Reticent]

I'm interested in the display of signal strength and quality in a proper GUI.
Possibly as an auxiliary player(s) service. Just don't know how to approach that.
I sent an email to the originator, though the websites involved don't show recent activity.

(Kaffeine is nice, but while tuning it gives little indication of signal strength and none of quality.)
((I also used VLC, until an inadvertent drag inspired it to start something bigger than my swap! Working on fix.))