Galileo TriMix / IrDA

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Apr 30 08:16:56 PDT 2013


On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 10:59 -0400, William Perry wrote:
> I don't end up with a ttyUSBxxx device, probably because irattach craps
> out too early to do much of anything. 

As I said in my previous email - you don't need that device at all.

> I am going to borrow an adapter or two from other folks at the local
> shop and see if I have any better luck.

That might work in case it's an issue with your adapter.

>   I have been trying to convince the ScubaPro tech people to just
> contribute to something like libdivecomputer for ~4 years with no
> luck.  Why they would want to spend actual money developing moderately
> functional log software is beyond me.  They just don't get my argument
> to let folks like Subsurface or MacDive write a kick-ass UI and
> database and the support for their computers comes for effectively free
> with one contribution to libdivecomputer.   I think they assume I am
> pitching some sort of contract work to them -- they just can't
> comprehend the amount of time and effort folks will expend to use their
> preferred OS and programs.

It's called brand equity. They want to have their own software that only
supports their own dive computers. We actually have great working
relationship with several brands of dive computers (heinrichs & weikamp,
Shearwater Research, Uemis, Atomics Aquatics, Mares...) and some of them
have their own software and some of them simply recommend ours. Other
vendors (first and foremost Suunto and Cochran, but there are more) are
actively hostile to us and go out of their way NOT to support us.

ScubaPro is somewhere in the middle, I guess. :-/

/D



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