Aqualung i470tc - any experiences or thoughts on compatibility?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 3:43 PM Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> wrote:
>
> the successor to Aqualung's i450t, the i470tc, comes with a Bluetooth
> instead of a USB interface:
>
> http://www.aqualung.com/it/prodotti/computer/computer-per-immersioni-i470tc
>
> Does anybody know whether it is already or will be compatible with Subsurface
> for downloading dive data? Any educated guesses based on previous
> Aqualung dive computers using Bluetooth?

Most likely it will require some tweaking out of the box, and we'll
need somebody who can do some - likely fairly minimal - testing and
send a few dumps our way.

It *probably* acts very similarly to other existing Aqualung devices
that we already support, in which case the testing ends up being just
a few rounds (first we need to figure out the bluetooth name, add a
guess as to what the layout is, then do a dump, and then Jeff can
probably figure out what small detail the Pelagic people changed
_this_ time).

So making it work would not be immediate: probably three
back-and-forth testing things, each of which could have a latency of
several days. And that's the _best_ case where it's really just a
tweak of an existing thing. If there are any bigger changes, it could
be much more painful.

             Linus