Request for testers

Jason Bramwell jb2cool at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 11:48:44 PDT 2020


Force LE with the same bluetooth dongle works fine on Linux Mint 19.3. I 
was a bit worried by el cheapo no-name dongle might not support 
Bluetooth LE but this proves it does.

JB

On 22/06/2020 18:49, Jason Bramwell wrote:
>
> These might be useful.
>
> This is a download when set to Auto, then a download when set to Force 
> LE then a download when set to Force Classic.
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
> Windows 10
>
> *From: *Jason Bramwell <mailto:jb2cool at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *22 June 2020 18:35
> *To: *Dirk Hohndel <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>
> *Cc: *Subsurface Mailing List <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>
> *Subject: *RE: Request for testers
>
> I don’t have the same luck, Force LE gives me
>
> Putting it back to Auto for Force Classic immediately restored 
> functionality.
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
> Windows 10
>
> *From: *Dirk Hohndel <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>
> *Sent: *22 June 2020 17:28
> *To: *Jason Bramwell <mailto:jb2cool at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Subsurface Mailing List <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Request for testers
>
> BTW, Lubomir was able to test and responded on the GitHub PR that for 
> him this works. So I have high hopes that this will work for you as well.
>
> If you have the time, I would REALLY appreciate a second test, though.
>
> /D
>
>     On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:23 AM, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
>     <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org
>     <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>> wrote:
>
>     Now comes the important question. If you try the OSTCs again, but
>     in the Download UI select the "BLE only" option, does it still
>     work? The way to do this is to switch "Bluetooth mode" in the
>     "Remove Bluetooth device selection" dialog to "Force LE".
>
>     IIRC the OSTCs are both dual stack BT & BLE dive computers. And
>     it's the BLE part that failed for me when I tested this here :-(
>
>     /D
>
>         On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:28 AM, Jason Bramwell via subsurface
>         <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org
>         <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>> wrote:
>
>         Petrel has Bluetooth connectivity and it’s downloading
>         information but it says error parsing the header for each of
>         the dives. This has not been used for a very long time and has
>         had firmware updated multiple times since it was last used so
>         this is possible a red herring.
>
>         OSTC Plus-Sport didn’t want to connect initially but after I
>         removed the pairing I had on the computer from previously it
>         paired up and downloaded fine.
>
>         OSTC Plus-Tech paired up and downloaded fine (this is newer
>         than the OSTS Plus with sport firmware so it hadn’t been
>         paired previously).
>
>         Upon retrying the download from both the OSTC’s they download
>         straight away without having to mess about at all.
>
>         JB
>
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