Signal strength for cell

[ahz]

I read a previous thread that the variable wifi_strength has dual purpose and reports cell when disconnected from wifi, but it always returns -127 when wifi is disabled.

Past thread

"Cell signal strength" variable option?

There is a "wifi signal strength" option when you select the pop-up dialog action. Is there a way to add a "cell signal strength" option as well? Thanks!

www.macrodroidforum.com

 

[Endercraft]

I read a previous thread that the variable wifi_strength has dual purpose and reports cell when disconnected from wifi, but it always returns -127 when wifi is disabled.

Past thread

"Cell signal strength" variable option?

There is a "wifi signal strength" option when you select the pop-up dialog action. Is there a way to add a "cell signal strength" option as well? Thanks!

www.macrodroidforum.com

It's probably because the magic text was supposed to work with Wi-Fi in the first place, so it's disabled when Wi-Fi is disabled.

 

[ahz]

It's probably because the magic text was supposed to work with Wi-Fi in the first place, so it's disabled when Wi-Fi is disabled.

That's not what I read in the linked post:

when connected to wifi = wifi signal strength
when connected to mobile internet = cell signal strength

 

[ahz]

P.S. I am running Macrodroid pro 5.26.8 on Samsung Galaxy S9+ with Android 10

 

[Snurre]

What does your log say?
I can't see where you are setting your var's

 

[ahz]

Log

In this simple version I don't set the vars. Macrodroid sets them.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

This is certainly not something that is intentional or guaranteed to work I'm afraid.

 

[ahz]

Do you mean it's unreliable because of a limitation of the Android OS, because it has not been a focus for Macrodroid, or because it never will be important for Macrodroid? It doesn't seem to be the first case because many Android apps report or collect cell strength (RSRP) and quality (RSRQ).

Could Macrodroid be improved, so the cell signal information is reliable? (Even better: it reports the cell signal even when wifi is on.)

Or is there a good workaround? I'm not familiar with Android, but maybe it's available by scraping output from a shell command.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

The features I add for MacroDroid are largely driven by what users request. Now of course I get many times the number of requests than I have time to implement, so I try to prioritize the best I can and add what I think will be most useful to as many users as possible.

wifi_strength is designed to show wifi strength and nothing else. If it does show cell signal strength on some devices then this is a side effect and certainly not by design. I will feed your request into my TODO list and prioritize accordingly.