Wireless bitrate and quality are not updated

[Markus00000]

When starting i3 the wireless %bitrate and %quality are fetched once but will not be updated afterwards.

iw shows the constant changes in bitrate and signal quality that i3status is missing.

Running i3status 2.10, Linux 4.3.3 and iwlwifi.

[eplanet]

I am using same version and same driver on my laptop, and it definitely gets updated when there are changes.

Maybe the problem lies somewhere else on your i3status configuration, do you have other settings updated while the wifi isn't ?

[Markus00000]

I tested it with Linux 4.6.2.

The quality is still not updating. The bitrate is updating but shows vastly different values than iw.

Try opening two terminals and compare the outputs of:

watch -n1 iwconfig
watch -n1 iw <your WiFi device> link

iwconfig, which is deprecated, shows the same bitrate as i3status. iw shows a different, constantly changing bitrate.

For now, I will keep using py3status with this WiFi module: ultrabug/py3status#180

[shdown]

The same on my machine. Linux 4.18.0. The /proc/net/wireless file updates in the real time.

Relevant part of lspci output:

02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 30)
	Subsystem: Lenovo QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 130
	Region 0: Memory at a1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
	Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

[japalvia]

I noticed also that wifi quality is updated only when resuming from suspend. However, if I run LinSSID and start scanning then i3status gets new values but only when the scan is active.

I'm running Arch with 5.3.13, Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275.
i3status version: 2.13.