Problem reading Uwatec Aladin Pro Ultra w/ Memomouse & USB-Serial Adapter

[Garry Glendown]

Hi,

after some time of not diving, I'm getting ready for a nice dive trip, and was looking into how I'd get the data off the dive computer and onto my notebook ... which is running Win10 and doesn't have a serial port ;)
Well, I do have a working USB-Serial adapter (using it for routers and other stuff), so I know it works ;)
The transfer between dive computer and memomouse also seems to work, at least the green light comes on correctly upon going to logbook mode, so that part I'd say is working, too. Anyway, all I get out of subsurface on transfer is "waiting for user action" ... the logfile doesn't really show much data transfer either:

INFO: Open: name=COM6
INFO: Configure: baudrate=19200, databits=8, parity=0, stopbits=1, flowcontrol=0
INFO: Timeout: value=-1
INFO: DTR: value=1
INFO: RTS: value=0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=00
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E6
INFO: Read: size=1, data=00
INFO: Read: size=1, data=00
INFO: Read: size=1, data=18
INFO: Read: size=1, data=F8
INFO: Read: size=1, data=18
INFO: Read: size=1, data=9E
INFO: Read: size=1, data=98
INFO: Read: size=1, data=9E
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=60
INFO: Read: size=1, data=7E
INFO: Read: size=1, data=78
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=80
INFO: Read: size=1, data=18
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E0
INFO: Read: size=1, data=00
INFO: Read: size=1, data=E6

Any idea what is going wrong here?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:23 AM, 'Garry Glendown' via Subsurface
Divelog <subsurfac...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> The transfer between dive computer and memomouse also seems to work, at
> least the green light comes on correctly upon going to logbook mode, so that
> part I'd say is working, too. Anyway, all I get out of subsurface on
> transfer is "waiting for user action" ...

At least *some* Aladin computers need user input (on the dive computer
itself) to put it into "dive log" mode in order for the download to
work.

I've never used one myself, and maybe that's not true of the
memomouse/Aladin Pro Ultra combination, but worth trying.

Linus

[Garry Glendown]

> transfer is "waiting for user action" ...

At least *some* Aladin computers need user input (on the dive computer
itself) to put it into "dive log" mode in order for the download to
work.

Yes, that is correct - in order to download that data, I need to enter the actual logbook on the dive computer, at which point the Memomouse switches from blinking to continuous green LED ... which is what I'm doing ;)

-garry

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:35 PM, 'Garry Glendown' via Subsurface
Divelog <subsurfac...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
> Yes, that is correct - in order to download that data, I need to enter the
> actual logbook on the dive computer, at which point the Memomouse switches
> from blinking to continuous green LED ... which is what I'm doing ;)

Ok, I didn't realize that was what he green light thing was. Ok, then
I have no idea. You might try if Jef Driesen (of libdivecomputer) has
any ideas. See

http://libdivecomputer.org/contact.html

because that's what is actually doing all the low-level communications
with the Aladin.

Linus

[Jef Driesen]

This is a trace from the "aladin" backend. That's for downloading
directly from the Uwatec Aladin dive computer. If you are downloading
from a memomouse, then you need to use the "memomouse" backend. In the
subsurface download dialog, simply select "Uwatec Memomouse" instead of
"Uwatec Aladin Pro Ultra".

Jef

[Garry Glendown]

On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:22:19 AM UTC+2, Jef Driesen wrote:

This is a trace from the "aladin" backend. That's for downloading
directly from the Uwatec Aladin dive computer. If you are downloading
from a memomouse, then you need to use the "memomouse" backend. In the
subsurface download dialog, simply select "Uwatec Memomouse" instead of
"Uwatec Aladin Pro Ultra".

Good catch! Never even looked for the MemoMouse,assumed I'd have to actually select the DC I had ... will try tonight!

[Garry Glendown]

Just tried it, worked like a charm  ... thanks again!!!