sigmon(1)

sigmon1

Vodafone 3g/gprs datacard signal strength monitor

Usage

sigmon -?

Options

-? gives brief usage details

Overview

sigmon is a command line tool for monitoring the signal strength seen by a Vodafone 3G/GPRS datacard. Once started, it queries the datacard for the signal strength and displays it every 5 seconds. Use Ctrl/C to stop the signal strength display and exit from sigmon

Dependencies

sigmon requires comgt to be installed so that it appears in the current search path when sigmon is run.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0–5.0
  2. 6.0–13

Bugs

sigmon is a simple script that assumes that the third port of the datacard is /dev/ttyUSB2. If the datacard is not the first USB device registered the script must be modified to correct the port name. Read /var/log/messages to find the correct port name.

From comgt 0.32-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.