Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:17:08PM -0400, Chris wrote: > Sorry, I have to ask... > So, how is your weight affected when you 'rrdtool dump'? yikes! :-) > I'm looking for suggestions or pointers about how to unlock and > dump such a file. Any help will be greatly appreciated. you were talking abo

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Chris wrote: >I looked at the data in Hackman Hex Editor >and did an ASCII search on my name. >It found that and my phone number within the >data, so you're probably right - it's >likely not encrypted or compressed. It's also a good clue that it's definitely not an RRD file - there isn't a way t

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Chris
Simon, Andy Thanks for your replies. I originally replied to Simon alone by mistake but am resending this re-edited to the group instead. You are right, it may be proprietary. To that end, I've emailed Respironics directly asking for a linux dump tool. Surely their software techs have just such

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Riebs
Chris, Distinctive features of rrdtool that might indicate whether your Respironics card is using rrdtool include 1. Consolidating data over a variety of time periods. Does the card simply return data for the last 30 hours, for example, or does it return data by hour, day, and week? 2. Does it

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Chris wrote: >Granted, there is the possibility that the .bin file is >not using Tobias Oetiker's algorithms. >But why would Respironics reinvent the wheel? Why wouldn't they ? There are many reasons : having a proprietary format that isn't readable with other tools might be a design goal; not

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Riebs
> > I'm looking for suggestions or pointers about how to unlock and > dump such a file. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Chris > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabien Wernli > Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Chris
ed. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabien Wernli Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:10 AM To: rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch Subject: Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:45:59AM -0400, Chris wrote: > I&

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:45:59AM -0400, Chris wrote: > I'm pretty sure the data is in some form of round > robin database for a number of reasons: > a. the data record on the smartcard >is always the same size: 32KB. > b. the old data rolls off when the card >is full, and new data cont

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-22 Thread Chris
From: Adam Jacob Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:07 AM To: Chris Cc: rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch Subject: Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card What makes you think the data is in rrd format? -Adam On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Chris wrote: > G

Re: [rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-21 Thread Adam Jacob Muller
What makes you think the data is in rrd format? -Adam On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > > I’m new to this, but have done playing around with rrdtool. > > Can anyone tell me how to dump data from a respironics .bin file off > a respironics smart card? > > I’m guessing

[rrd-users] RRD and Respironics Smart Card

2008-04-21 Thread Chris
Greetings, I'm new to this, but have done playing around with rrdtool. Can anyone tell me how to dump data from a respironics .bin file off a respironics smart card? I'm guessing there is compression/encryption that's not letting me 'rrdtool dump' the data. Cheers, Chris _