* joshua stein <j...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 21:42:46 -0400, Jon Bernard wrote:
> > Hi ports,
> >
> > Here's a small patch to i3status to report wireless signal quality. If
> > you're using the default configuration, you should see the '?' change to
> > the current signal quality percentage.
> >
> > If this looks good I'll submit it upstream.
> >
> > OK?
>
> I'm already getting wireless signal quality with i3status, is this
> not the same thing? My i3status.conf has:
>
> wireless iwm0 {
> format_up = "up|%signal|%essid"
> format_down = "down"
> }
>
> which reports:
>
> [{"name":"wireless","instance":"iwm0","markup":"none","full_text":"up|
> 76%|xxx"},...
I think you're right. I thought signal was the raw value but it appears
that i3status computes the percentage for %signal based on the max. The
manpage doesn't even mention the signal field so that's fun. Thanks for
looking at this, sorry for the noise.
--
Jon
