Which protocol to implement on a home brewed diving computer ?

Thomas Schrein (mailinglists) tsx508 at schrein.de
Tue Mar 17 07:38:27 PDT 2015


Am 17.03.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Dirk Hohndel:
>> On Mar 17, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Thomas Schrein (mailinglists) <tsx508 at schrein.de> wrote:
>> My first idea was to emulate an existing dive computer, so subsurface would work with no chances. But it is a lot of work to be copatible, I know. And we want to concentrate to bring up the HW and basic SW this year.
> Let me make this easier for you.
> You have my promise that if you give us documentation of your format you’ll have a Subsurface version that supports it in under a week.
> So please do NOT try to be compatible, but instead listen to what Linus suggested.
>
>> Your proposal is quit good, it is easy to implement, just enhance the existing sw. You are right just doing it in the old DOS/shell style.
> Yep
>
> /D


Whow, great ... :-))
So I will do 2 things:

1. Start to spec and implement a protocol/command set based on Linus 
proposal
2. Speed up prototyping our odico, so that I can give some sample to you 
the next VERY few month :-))

:-))
Thomas




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