Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Monty Taylor
On 09/22/2018 04:07 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: PS. We have another pending problem with the dive site situaiton: the Garmin Descent Mk1 gives us both entry and exit coordinates, and having done four drift dives with it, I actually really *would* like to have our mapping to show it as not a flag,

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:12 AM Monty Taylor wrote: > > Maybe at least collect the start/end GPS so we have them in the data, > and maybe later someone will good idea for visualization? For the Garmin Descent, the way it's currently done is that start/end coordinates are captures as "extra data"

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Monty Taylor
On 09/24/2018 11:04 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: So Linus said some interesting things about this topic - and others have added in the past. I'd like to try and connect some of the dots here - please correct me if I get things wrong... (a) a dive site, as an independent entity from a dive, does have

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Monty Taylor
On 09/24/2018 11:33 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:04 AM Dirk Hohndel wrote: (a) a dive site, as an independent entity from a dive, does have a logical GPS location. One can argue where that is and in many ways that's a matter of taste and opinion (e.g., is it where you

Mares Smart Dive Computer + Bluelink pro

2018-09-24 Thread Fabio Capriati
Hi, I'm new here. I open a thread here to track this issue if someone is interested to. I chated with Dirk and Linus about Mares Smart computer and Bluelink interface issue. That's last Linus' mail with the problem analysis. Bye Fabio -- Forwarded message - From: Linus Torvalds

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:33 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But people literally do blackwater dives too, where you absolutely do > *not* have a site at all. You're literally just in a fairly random > location. You're doing it for Oops, this got cut short because I was editing something else. It

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
> On Sep 24, 2018, at 9:33 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > I'd actually argue that a dive site could be described as an "area", True. Because our data isn't confusing and inconsistent enough, we could add a "focus point" plus NW and SE corner :-) >> (b) a dive itself can be described in

Re: OT: Aqua Lung I100 Cable

2018-09-24 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
Am 23.09.2018 um 22:42 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 13:23 Simon Eigeldinger wrote: I just got me an Aqua Lung I100. Thought it was coming with a cable, but no. do i need the special interface cable or can i use some standard off the shelf cable? Sadly, I think it needs

Re: Mares Smart Dive Computer + Bluelink pro

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
Hi Fabio, And thanks for joining the developer mailing list. I have made a new beta version of Subsurface-mobile for Android available which includes the patch that Linus mentioned. Have you had a chance to try this? It would be good to see the logs from that new version when you attempt to

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:04 AM Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > (a) a dive site, as an independent entity from a dive, does have a > logical GPS location. One can argue where that is and in many ways > that's a matter of taste and opinion (e.g., is it where you enter the water, > or is it where the

Re: Silly problem with dive sites and GPS downloading

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
So Linus said some interesting things about this topic - and others have added in the past. I'd like to try and connect some of the dots here - please correct me if I get things wrong... (a) a dive site, as an independent entity from a dive, does have a logical GPS location. One can argue where

Re: Mares Bluetooth dongle

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
> On Sep 24, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > But from everything I see, I think that the Mares code should just > magically start working if I fix that stupid choice of > characteristics. > > I'm hoping to have hardware to test by Thursday, but I'm actually > hoping I could have a

Mares Bluetooth dongle

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, so I've parsed the bluetooth logs that were provided by Allen Hall (back in April) and by Fabio Capriati (recently), and I think I see what is going wrong. We actually do *almost* the right thing. We even pick the right GATT service from the device. It looks like (if I'm reading things

Re: Mares Bluetooth dongle

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:23 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Our code to pick a characteristic is basically almost entirely random > and just "this worked for the cases we had" with then the Heinrichs > Weicamp thing being a complete special case because of the whole "need > to do flow control in

Re: Mares Smart Dive Computer + Bluelink pro

2018-09-24 Thread Fabio Capriati
Hi Dirk, surely, I'll do it ASAP. Is this the right one? https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/download/continuous/subsurface-mobile-build-arm-debug.apk Thanks Il lun 24 set 2018, 18:20 Dirk Hohndel ha scritto: > Hi Fabio, > > And thanks for joining the developer mailing

Re: OT: Aqua Lung I100 Cable

2018-09-24 Thread Jef Driesen
On 23-09-18 22:42, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 13:23 Simon Eigeldinger wrote: I just got me an Aqua Lung I100. Thought it was coming with a cable, but no. do i need the special interface cable or can i use some standard off the shelf cable? Sadly, I think it needs the

Re: OT: Aqua Lung I100 Cable

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
> On Sep 24, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Jef Driesen wrote: > I pushed the code for the i100 this morning. Cool. Once Linus merges that, we'll be able to add support for it in 4.8.3 /D ___ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org

Re: Mares Bluetooth dongle

2018-09-24 Thread Dirk Hohndel
> On Sep 24, 2018, at 12:23 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> You bought another dive computer? > > No. I went into the local dive shop to ask if they can rent them, but > they don't. But the owner has seen me there enough that he just said > "take it for a few days". NICE. > So I have a

Re: OT: Aqua Lung I100 Cable

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:05 PM Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > Cool. Once Linus merges that, we'll be able to add support for it in 4.8.3 I merged Jef's i100 work, and pushed it out. It looks like the parsing is literally identical to the I200, just with the header at a different offset. Anyway, the

Re: Mares Bluetooth dongle

2018-09-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:46 AM Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Linus Torvalds > > wrote: > > > > I'm hoping to have hardware to test by Thursday, but I'm actually > > hoping I could have a test-patch for people to try before that. > > You bought another dive computer?