JMETERS(1)

💖 JMETERS — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so jmeters is a multichannel audio level meter for the Jack Audio Connection Kit, and it lives in section 1 of the general commands manual. that's the whole vibe. let's go 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

jmeters [options][labels]

literally that's it. options, then labels, slay.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page gives you the brief little rundown on jmeters. it's short and sweet but it's got lore. 🦋

this manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because — plot twist — the original program does not have a manual page. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and here we are, iconic behaviour honestly. 💅

jmeters uses the same pixmaps as meterbridge. but here's the tea: the main difference to meterbridge is that jmeters has the correct ballistics for both the VU and the PPM. not me getting emotional over accurate ballistics 😭 that's the whole point, that's the moment.

jmeters offers VU, PPM, BBC, DIN and stereo versions of PPM, BBC, DIN. and the stereo versions have two indicator needles on the same scale — two needles, one scale, main character energy fr fr. 👑

jmeters also offers correlation meters matching the VU, BBC and DIN styles, most of them in different sizes and shapes. so many shapes. so many sizes. obsessed. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — Display short info. the "hey what is this" button, lowkey useful.
• -t <type> — Meter type. your choices are: vu, bbc, ebu, din, sbbc, sebu, sdin, cvu, cppm, cdin. pick your fighter bestie, there's literally ten of them.
• -f <frame> — Meter frame. options: rect, small, mbrl, mbrs. frame it, it's giving gallery wall. 🖼️
• -r <value> — Reference level change, default is 0 dB. yes the default is literally zero, very balanced of it.
• -name <name> — Name to use as jack client. the default is jmeters. name your child. 🍼
• -u <rate> — Update rate. the default is 20. twenty times a second, she's busy, she's booked, she's thriving. 💅
• -c <number> — Columns. the default is 4. four columns. that's the shape of it. 📐
• -g <number> — Window geometry. no default listed, you just tell her where to sit. 🙈

heads up bestie: those parenthesised values like (20) and (4) are the defaults straight from the original page — don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• jackd(1) — go read that one too, it's the whole ecosystem okay.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

jmeters was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net>. absolute legend, no cap. 🫶

this manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> for the Debian project — but plot twist, it may be used by others. so share the love, it's communal property. 🌈

and that's a wrap on the jmeters general commands manual page, dated November 8, 2012 — vintage, retro, still serving looks. go meter something, bestie. ⭐💖🌸