12 Jan
2013
12 Jan
'13
11:42 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Jef Driesen jefdriesen@telenet.be wrote: [...]
The primary purpose of the serial number in the DC_EVENT_DEVINFO event is to be able to uniquely identify individual devices (e.g. for use with the fingerprint feature).
There is nothing, which prevents two dive computers from two different manufacturers, to have the same serial number, isn't it?
Not sure how it works for fingerprint feature, but IMHO it is worth keeping above in mind before someone starts to use the serial as device unique identifier.
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Regards,
w