Is there a way to change the degraded threshold for wireless in the i3status bar?

answered 2014-12-05 08:35:44 +0000

Adaephon
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There is no easy way:

1. There is no configuration option for that in i3status.
2. The value is not even hard coded into the i3status code, but it is retrieved with the iwlib library, which in turn seems to get it from the driver.

The wireless.h (from iwlib) has the following to say about avg_qual (which i3status uses - correctly so - as threshold value):

/* This should contain the average/typical values of the quality
 * indicator. This should be the threshold between a "good" and
 * a "bad" link (example : monitor going from green to orange).
 * Currently, user space apps like quality monitors don't have any
 * way to calibrate the measurement. With this, they can split
 * the range between 0 and max_qual in different quality level
 * (using a geometric subdivision centered on the average).
 * I expect that people doing the user space apps will feedback
 * us on which value we need to put in each driver... */
struct iw_quality avg_qual;

So unless there is a way to actually calibrate this setting now, it seems that the threshold i3status uses cannot be changed.

Of course you could always modify the code and compile i3status yourself.