dib3000-watch(1)

📦 version 1.1.1+rev1500, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 dib3000-watch — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dib3000-watch(1), from the General Commands Manual corner of the universe 🌈. yes this is a real manpage, yes it's short, and yes we're gonna make it slay anyway 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dib3000-watch — a program to check DVB cards 🦋

like. that's the whole name section. it checks DVB cards. it watches them. it's giving surveillance but make it digital TV 📺

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dib3000-watch [options]<channelname>

okay so you run it, you throw some [options] at it if you're feeling fancy, and then you hand it a <channelname> — no space needed between them, that's just how it is, don't come for me 😌

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this manual page documents briefly the dib3000-watch commands. brief. concise. a lil snack of a manpage, fr fr 🍓

dib3000-watch is a program to check DVB cards. that's it. that's the vibe. it checks DVB cards. periodt 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's where the main character energy lives. every single flag, no skips, no cap:

  • -d <i2c-device> — -d: normally one of /dev/i2c-[0-255] 🌟
  • -a <i2c-address> — -a: is 8 for DiB3000M-B and 9, 10, 11 or 12 for DiB3000M-C or DiB3000-P 🔥
  • -o <type> — -o: output type (print|csv) (default: print) 💖
  • -i <seconds> — -i: query interval in seconds (default: 0.1) ⏱️
  • -h — print this help text 🫶

like, -o is literally just "do you want it pretty or do you want it spreadsheet" and honestly both are valid. print is the default, csv is for when you're about to make a graph and feel like a data scientist 🧚 and yes -i defaults to 0.1 seconds, she is impatient, she queries fast 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2005 by Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de> 💜

This manual page was written by Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>. ✨

heads up bestie: -d wants one of /dev/i2c-[0-255], and the -a address is not a free-for-all — it's 8 for DiB3000M-B, and 9, 10, 11 or 12 for DiB3000M-C or DiB3000-P. pick wrong and the vibe check will fail 🙈

and that's the whole thing!! 🎀 this page came from the General Commands Manual, dated February 14, 2010 💘 (valentine's day manpage, how romantic), and it's the dib3000-watch(1) page. go check those DVB cards, bestie, you got this 🌟💖

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