galileo luna

[William Perry]

On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at telenet.be> wrote:

> On 2013-08-20 15:14, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> We should add this on the web. Which dive computers are irda only?
> 
> All devices in the Uwatec Smart family (DC_FAMILY_UWATEC_SMART) require IrDA support.
> 
> This are basically all modern Uwatec dive computers. The only exception is the new Scubapro/Uwatec Meridian (not supported by libdivecomputer yet) which uses usb-serial. I wouldn't be surprised if the lack of IrDA support on Mac OS X has something to do with that change :-)

I doubt that has much to do with it - the Meridian is pretty small to squeeze an IrDA device into.  And I have talked to the ScubaPro guys for years about how their current support sucks, they just don't seem to care.

And I have serious doubts about their software skills given the cluster!#%!@ that is LogTrak / SmartTrak.  Their new version of the software (LogTrak) can ONLY talk to the Meridian, not the Galileo line.  And the old one can not talk to the Meridian at all.  And they seem to think that is okay.  I've talked to them for going on 6 years (ever since I bought my Sol) about just providing the glue for something like libdivecomputer to talk to their computers and they could actually focus on writing halfway decent firmware for the computers instead of 1/4 decent logbook software, no joy.

I spent some more time disassembling the JTrak jars that have a full IrDA stack in them - need to carve out some more free time to write a proof-of-concept to dynamically load those and get a memory dump.  But I would rather go diving. :)

Until then I have been using dc2uddf pretty successfully.  Still no joy in a virtual machine with irattach for me, but a linux partition on my MBPro is nice to have anyway.

http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2012/12/04/30-meters-underwater-with-a-dead-physical-layer-protocol/

-bill
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