Divecomputer-reading from Mobile devices (Was: Divemate Fusion)

[Martin Gysel]

Am 10.04.2016 um 15:53 schrieb Dirk Hohndel:
> 
>> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Robert Helling <helling at atdotde.de
>> <mailto:helling at atdotde.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is going fast!
>>
>>> On 09.04.2016, at 18:57, Linus Torvalds
>>> <torvalds at linux-foundation.org
>>> <mailto:torvalds at linux-foundation.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Because $9 is $9. And depending on where I ship it, the postage is
>>> going to be more than that ;)
>>
>> Availability seems to be a problem at the moment. I preordered two at
>> their website and it said „Ships in June 2016“. Let’s hope for the best.
> 
> Yeah, I talked to the VP of Marketing. They can't make them fast enough.
> 
>> In the meantime I will play a bit with a Pi that I have right here. I
>> was thinking along the lines of adding a command line option to
>> subsurface which just downloads new dives from an attached dive
>> computer and updates the local git accordingly. Leaving the BT stuff
>> for the moment and maybe doing wifi first (as that should be easier
>> there).
> 
> I don't think we need a command line option for Subsurface.
> libdivecomputer already has a command line tool. I've used that
> successfully on my C.H.I.P to download from the Cobalt.

I can think of one reason to use subsurface (at least some parts of it)
to download the dives instead of libdc directly is subsurface supports
the Uemis whereas libdc doesn't.

/martin