Wrongly ID on Shearwater Petrel 2 -4.6 Beta 1

[JB2Cool]

On 13 October 2016 at 12:25, John Smith <noseygit at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> On 13 Oct 2016, at 12:09, JB2Cool <jb2cool at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Screengrab might help clarify things.
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> <ostc device names.jpg>
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> On 13 October 2016 at 12:03, JB2Cool <jb2cool at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I get this on my OSTC mk2 when I have a different version of the firmware
>> on it. Does the Shearwater get regular firmware updates too, that could
>> well cause it to have a different device ID.
>>
>> Yes, I think my issue is the same, shearwater push very regular updates.
>
> However, the device Id in the shearwater software has never changed, which
> would suggest that libdivecomputer isn't reading the true serial number but
> assigning one instead
>

As far as I can see this is by design, device id isn't the serial, they are
different things. You might want to keep track of  which dives you did on
the Shearwater with firmware 1 and then which dives with firmware 1.1, if
the device id was the same you couldn't tell them apart, having different
device id means that firmware 1.0 and 1.1 show as different devices.

Maybe do as I do and set a friendly name for your dive computer but mention
the firmware version in there too.

Jb

> JB
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>> On 13 October 2016 at 11:50, John Smith <noseygit at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I use a Petrel 2 and download via Bluetooth.
>>>
>>> Looking at the Device List so that I could change the nickname of my
>>> petrel, I noticed that I have different device IDs attached to the same
>>> unit.
>>>
>>> <pastedImage.png>
>>>
>>> I've checked in Shearwaters software and the recorded ID is 380D2ACD.
>>>
>>> I've attached the subsurface log and I tried to get a dump file , but
>>> whenever its selected I get a dive data import error. I will try and get
>>> one later.
>>>
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