Joe Hesketh(Offline)

Aladin Tec’s seem to be flavour of the month. Funnily enough I was also thinking of up(sideways)grading my Vytec to the UWATEC for the depth averaging, IR connection and salt/fresh water switch-ability (OK then, mainly just because I’m a sad puppy).

I downloaded the SmartTrak software last night and was trying to find a way of importing dives from those stored in Suunto’s Dive Manager and failed

Has anyone managed to do this? You can export from SDM in .CSV format but the UWATEC software only seems to accept imports in its own proprietary format? Alternatively, is there some other third party software that will take imports from the SDM and then export in SmartTrak format?

Any help appreciated.

Joe

Alastair(Offline)

Joe - did you get anywhere with this in the end?

I've found software which will import both but nothing which will let you convert the formats.

Cheers
Al

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Joe Hesketh(Offline)

Al - no I didn't have any luck in the end. I tried some 3rd party dive log programs to try and convert the Suunto into a general format and then import that into the SmartTrak, but nothing I tried worked

Joe

stach(Offline)

the code for opening the "microsft access" database file of the smarttrak is somewhere on the internet.
edit : found : gU6dokZ6sk9R

the .slg file is a access file

once you are in the database you should be able to import the data from the cvs file you mentioned.


greets
stach

Joe Hesketh(Offline)

Thanks - I'll give that a try

Joe

simonn(Offline)

Donning geek hat...

Unfortunately, in your case, but done for quite good reasons, the profile data in slg files is stored as blobs which are the actual data downloaded from the dive computer.

The good thing about this is that changes can be made to the way SmartTrak works with this data "in hindsight". Converting the data to a time, depth, temperature table like SDM does (the d9.mdb file in it's directory is also an Access database, but codd would be turning violently in his grave) is a one way process, so if there is a bug or "feature" that gernerates the wrong data then the data is lost.

So, the short answer is, you cannot really import Suunto dives into SmartTrak. To do so it would need to be converted into a dump of some kind of uwatec dive computer. This is possible, (when very bored on a very slow day at work) I wrote some C code a few years ago to convert Sensus Pro Manager files to DataTrak files which could be imported in to SmartTrak. Worked ok, but it had to pretend it was an Aladin computer of some description.

Anyway, if you use Linux (it might work under cygwin too?), my pet OSS project gdivelog can import from both SDM and SmartTrak and if asked nicely I could add downloading of Smart/new Aladin computers to it (on Linux anyway) - I have hacked the format, just a question of coding something useful.

However, I started work on Open Dive Log yesterday with aims to be cross platform (Linux, OSX and windows - in that order) and initially be able to download non-USB Suunto, Uwatec IrDA (and memomouse eventually), Sensus Pro, Citizen HyperAqualand and import from SmartTrak, SDM 2+, Sensus Pro Manager and DAN DL7 L1. Time is the only problem (as usual).

Alastair(Offline)

Hi Simon,

I actually found gdivelog a day or so and just imported both sets of data into it, so much appreciated!

Cheers
Al

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