Blockstream Satllite + gnuplot

gistfile1.txt

Step 1) Start your blocksat-cli monitorings...eg, blocksat-cli standalone monitor --report  --log-scrolling --log-file
Step 2) cd into your .blocksat/logs directory
Step 3) Put the following into a text file in you logs directory with the name "pl"

    myTitle="blank"
if (ARG2==8){
 myTitle="Power"
} else{
 if (ARG2==11){
  myTitle="SNR"
 } else {
  if (ARG2==14){
   myTitle="BER" 
  } else {
   if (ARG2==18){
    myTitle="Packet Errors"
   }
  }
 }
}


myTitle2="blank"
if (ARG3==8){
 myTitle2="Power"
} else{
 if (ARG3==11){
  myTitle2="SNR"
 } else {
  if (ARG3==14){
   myTitle2="BER"
  } else {
   if (ARG3==18){
    myTitle2="Packet Errors"
   }
  }
 }
}



set terminal wxt size 1920,1280
set size 1,1
set xtics mirror
set ytics nomirror
set xtics 86400/12
set y2tics
#set grid x2tics
set grid xtics x2tics ytics y2tics mxtics mytics
#show grid
colname=ARG2+0
col2name=ARG3+0


set xdata time
set format x "%m-%d\n%H"
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

set x2data time
set format x2 "%m-%d\n%H"


myTitle=myTitle." (Left)"
myTitle2=myTitle2." (Right)"
if (ARG4==1){
 plot ARG1 using 1:colname title myTitle with lp pointtype 3 axes x1y1 smooth acsplines, ARG1 using 1:col2name title myTitle2 axes x2y2 with lp pointtype 4 smooth acsplines
} else {
  plot ARG1 using 1:colname title myTitle with lp pointtype 3 axes x1y1, ARG1 using 1:col2name title myTitle2 axes x2y2 with lp pointtype 4 
}
#column 8 is power, 11 is SNR, 14 is BER, 18 is packet errors
pause -1


Step 4) gnuplot  -c  ./pl NameOfLogFile.log 11 18 0 (where 11 is power, 18 is Packet ERRORS, 8 is Power, 14 is Bit Error Rate the zero or 1 at the end is for "smoothing")
Step 5) edit code to change xtics which is set to 12 tics per roughtly every 2 days