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Unfortunately there are several devices where an invalid logbook begin pointer occurs relative frequently. Typical examples are the Oceanic VT 4.1 and the Sherwood Wisdom 2. In such cases, the strict validation of the pointer causes the download to fail, without being able to download any dives at all. Since the begin pointer is only needed to detect the oldest logbook entry, we can fall back to downloading the entire logbook ringbuffer. If we're lucky (and we usually are), we can detect the oldest entry by inspecting the logbook entries once they are downloaded (e.g. presence of uninitialized entries) and then the download will finish succesfully. In the worst case scenario, we'll be able to download at least some dives before hitting another error.
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.