WLAN, bluetooth, DVB, DAB, ... I'm not getting any data!

• Is my antenna set up properly?
• Is it switched on?
• Am I picking up anything?
• Where's the carrier?
• How's the SNR?
• Is the error correction happy?
• What exactly is contained in this channel?
• Is it encrypted, do I have credentials?

Similar questions arise for wireless broadcast and network connections. It's a huge task to solve all of these, so write a framework to plug in modules for each stage in each stack. They may be as simple as to call an external program, or a loadable module linked to an appropriate library, or completely open coded.

Benefits over the individual existing tools will be a familiar look&feel (Qt) and systematic, step-by-step debugging of problems. Once solved, the established reception / connection may be handed back to the specialised tools (VDR, wpa-supplicant, udev,...)