Author Topic: Display Power Level?  (Read 1753 times)

Creotom

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Display Power Level?
« on: December 09, 2018, 12:45:44 PM »
Is there a simple way to read what the current TX power level is?
I have the RSSI mapped to a gauge on my screen but I'd like to also show what the current transmit power is.
Hopefully it's something as simple as the code below  ;D
But I just can't seem to find it anywhere.

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Serial.print(radio.readRSSI())

TomWS

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Re: Display Power Level?
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2018, 02:09:56 PM »
You can't get the transmitted power level in dBm, but, if you're using the RFM69ATC library then you can get the TX power setting:
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   Serial.print(radio._transmitLevel);

Creotom

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Re: Display Power Level?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2018, 02:14:41 PM »
Thank you.
That's perfect.


TomWS

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Re: Display Power Level?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2018, 02:35:19 PM »
With the normal library you could also do a:

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Serial.print(radio.readReg(REG_PALEVEL ) & 0x1F);
But I don't care for this as it creates unnecessary traffic to the radio.