fmscan - scan FM band for radio stations
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Bugs
This process can take a while, and results vary greatly depending on the radio card in use. If your
card's hardware cannot report signal strength, it will not produce useful results.
This program may not do much if your radio card's driver doesn't support fine tuning in 1/16000 MHz
offsets. By default, V4L2 assumes 1/16 MHz tuning units, which introduces evil rounding errors on many
frequencies.
Supports only tuner 0 on any given device.
Description
fmscan is a program to scan a frequency band for radio stations, using the video4linux interface
introduced in 2.1.x series Linux kernels. It shows which ones have a accumulated signal strength of 50%
or higher.
OPTIONS-h Print a usage message to standard output, and exit.
-ddevice
Sets device as the device to tune. The default is /dev/radio0.
-ttuner
Sets tuner as the tuner on the selected device to adjust. The default is tuner 0. Most radio
devices have only a single tuner.
-sfreq
Starting frequency for scan, in MHz. Default: 87.9.
-efreq
Ending frequency for scan, in MHz. Default: 107.9.
-ifreq
Increment between scanned channels, in MHz. Default: 0.2.
-tpercent
Signal strength threshold to consider a channel. Default: 50%.
-q Quiet mode. Suppresses progress output.
Name
fmscan - scan FM band for radio stations
See Also
Additional documentation:
/usr/share/doc/fmtools
The fmtools homepage:
http://benpfaff.org/fmtoolsSynopsis
fm [ -h ] [ -ddevice ] [ -ttuner ] [ -sfreq ] [ -efreq ] [ -ifreq ] [ -q ]
