Import binary dumps

[Markus Koppenberger]

On 19/03/2013, at 9:33 PM, Jef Driesen wrote:

> On 19-03-13 15:29, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> The universal binary does not produce XML files that Subsurface can
>> parse at this point. It produces dumps of the dive computer memory that
>> can be manually analyzed or fed to a simulator that Subsurface can then
>> connect to. That should work on the Mac as well - but it usually
>> requires that the libdivecomputer with which Subsurface is linked is
>> compiled with a special patch - so this may or may not be something you
>> can easily do by yourself...
> 
> The setup for using the simulator is described on the libdivecomputer website [1]. The socat tool works on Mac OS X too, although you may have to compile it yourself. The pre-compiled simulator binary you can download from the libdivecomputer website too [2]. Last but not least, you'll need to compile the libdivecomputer library with the "--enable-pty" option (this replaces the patch that is mentioned on the website). This last step is important because without this option libdivecomputer will fail when talking to a pty instead of real serial port.
> 
> [1] http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/simulator.html
> [2] http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/tmp/
> 
> Once you have everything, you start socat and the simulator:
> 
> socat PTY,link=/tmp/ttyS0 PTY,link=/tmp/ttyS1 &
> ./simulator -p /tmp/ttyS1 -b <backend> <filename>
> 
> In subsurface you use /tmp/ttyS0 as the serial port, and you can "download" the data from the memory dump into subsurface.
> 
> Note that for several backends the simulator does not only need the memory dump, but also auxiliary *.header and *.systime files. Those have to be created manually from the logfiles generated by the libdivecomputer test apps. I can help with that if necessary.

Thanks Jef, I'll give it a try!

koppi

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> Jef
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