> On Apr 9, 2016, at 4:55 AM, Jeroen Massar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2016-04-08 18:19, Robert Helling wrote: >> Hi, >> >> today, I had a lunch meeting with Lars and Martin the authors of the >> Divemate dive log for Android and iOS and and Divemate fusion USB >> connectors. We had a chat about their products and subsurface and >> exchanged some ideas. In particular the Fusion (which exists in two >> versions, one infrared and one USB, see http://www.divemate.de) allows >> to read out dive computers from smartphones (including iPhones). > > I have been thinking about doing something similar, and as ny kind of > Bluetooth device can works and bluetooth can just do serial comms, it > would be relatively easy. > > One could take a Arduino with a USB and Bluetooth port and it would not > be too hard to let them talk together. > > That way that device would just be a middle man in case a device does > not do Bluetooth. But, as it is standard serial over Bluetooth, it would > also become very very easy to support many devices on either side > (Android, iPhone one one, and heck even a normal computer with bluetooth > and no USB).
This would work for most dive computers - the Suunto EON Steel and the Atomics Aquatics Cobalt wouldn't work because they speak actual USB, not serial over USB. But I think a device like this with a small software stack on it would be a fabulous extension of Subsurface. If there is anything I can do to encourage you to create this, please let me know!!! /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
