shearwater Perdix AI

[Jef Driesen]

On 2016-11-30 08:25, Anton Lundin wrote:
> On 29 November, 2016 - Jon Gross wrote:
> 
>> I have in my greedy little hands a Shearwater Perdix AI computer, 
>> which
>> Shearwater says shares the same firmware with the Perdix and the 
>> Petrel,
>> but it will have air consumption (if equipped with a sender).
>> 
>> Is there anything I can send a developer that would help with support 
>> or
>> this?  I didn't see it in the list of supported computers.
>> 
> 
> As far as I've read between the lines, there is a new protocol for
> downloading data containing the pressure sensor. The old sample format
> have no space left for any more data to be added to it.
> 
> I guess that the new device still supports the older download protocols
> from the Predator and Petrel, so just try do select Petrel and 
> download.
> You should get logs from your computer, but without data from the
> pressure sensor.

Indeed, try first with the petrel protocol to see what we get there:

dctool -v -l petrel.log -f petrel download -f raw -o dive.%n.bin 
<serialport>

This will dump the individual dives to disk and allow us to have a look 
at the raw data.

Jef