Galileo Sol dive log decoding.

[Jef Driesen]

On 2015-03-09 17:38, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 17:19, Jef Driesen wrote:
>> Are you talking about direct downloading from the dive computer, or 
>> importing from the Uwatec application?
> 
> I am talking of the directly downloaded files I presume: those saved
> as subsurface.bin. Am I right?
> Certainly the links you refer to below are helpful in decoding these.
> I will do controlled dives with a
> Galileo,  generating events in a planned way, then download the dives
> as subsurface.bin and decode them to
> see the way the events were recorded. I have written software to do
> the decoding and I think it is quite
> sufficient for these purposes. I have a reasonable understanding of
> the dive structure and the way flags and
> events are implemented. I can read any arbitrary dive within the whole
> downloaded dive log.
> At least, that is my general plan of action.

Using the libdivecomputer simulator will be much more efficient than 
trying to generate events during real dives. You just take an existing 
memory dumps, change the bit you want to investigate, and feed the 
modified data back to the Smarttrak application.

The setup is explained here:

http://libdivecomputer.org/simulator.html

The source code and pre-built binaries for the simulator can be 
downloaded here:

http://libdivecomputer.org/simulator/

You can also use the simulator in combination with libdivecomputer's 
"universal" application (or even subsurface) as a debug tool to check 
the parsing. The code to deal with memory dumps is already there, so you 
don't need to spend time on that.

In addition to the simulator, I also have a large collection of memory 
dumps that you can use for testing. I'm sure some of those will already 
contains the events you are interested in.

Jef