You might consider my solution to the very same problem, given to me by my sleep doctor: "Don't check your numbers every day, it will drive you crazy". -- Pat
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > I do not want to discourage your efforts to raise the technology level > of this system, but suppose you schlep the laptop to the CPAP machine, > so you are less likely to forget to put the card back in the machine. > Crude but maybe effective. > > I offer this idea because I know squat about wireless cards, so cannot > answer your original question. > > -Denis > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:09:07 -0700 > > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: > > > >>Get a second SD card and put it into the machine right when you take > >>the other one out? > > > > The machine looks for a special file that it puts on the card, and > > which is updated every day that data is written to the card. If the > > file is not there or is out of date the machine won't write more data > > to the card until it formats the card, which wipes out all data and > > puts a fresh special file on the card. And it waits 24 hours after > > formatting the card, so you always lose a day's data when you change > > cards. Also, the standard cards which come with the machine are 2 GB, > > but it takes the machine nearly ten minutes to format it. Did I mention > > that this machine is really stupid? It's also pig slow. > > > > If and when I buy the Toshiba, when I put it into the machine it will > > insist on formatting it. This is concern #1; if formatting the card > > wipes out the wifi ability, then it will be impossible to use the > > Toshiba card and I can stop now. However, googling turned up a couple > > comments that this doesn't happen with the latest versions of the card. > > > > Bear in mind that the consumer is not supposed to be viewing the data. > > Only a physician or specially anointed respiratory therapist is deemed > > to be intelligent enough to understand it. Therefore, the only reason > > there is a card is so I can take it to such a person and kneel before > > them while they use proprietary software from the manufacturer to view > > the data and make adjustments to the therapy by modifying the card. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
