To be able to pass the OSTC 3 model number to the parser, and preserve
backwards compatibility, we need a new function. The new function should
also be used for the Frog, by passing zero as the model number.
Using the hw_ostc_parser_create() function with the hwos parameter set
to one, is now deprecated but will remain supported for backwards
compatibility.
For applications supporting offline parsing (like libdivecomputer's own
dctool application), some device specific knowledge is still required in
order to map a particular model to the corresponding backend. The new
convenience function will take care of that internally.
The already existing dc_parser_new() function does the same, but
requires an open device handle, which makes it unsuitable for offline
parsing.
The protocol of the iX3M series is almost identical to the protocol of
the iDive series. The main difference is that the command bytes and the
size of the response packets have been changed. In order to be able to
communicate with the correct set of commands, the user needs to supply
the correct number now. To maintain backwards compatibility, a new
variant of the open function is added.
The latest firmware v1.75 introduced a new hardware descriptor byte to
identify the different models based on their hardware features. This new
hardware descriptor is now used as the libdivecomputer model number. For
older firmware versions, which do not support the descriptor yet, there
is an automatic fallback to the previous method based on the serial
number.
This change will be necessary for the Oceanic VTX, because it uses a
higher baudrate.
To maintain backwards compatibility, the existing function remains
unchanged and a new function is introduced instead.
This connects the bits and implements firmware upgrade for the OSTC3.
This code is inspired by JeanDo ostc-companion.
Reviewed-by: Jef Driesen <jef@libdivecomputer.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Lundin <glance@acc.umu.se>
Basic Suunto EON Steel downloading copied from my test application.
This parses all the core dive data, including sample data (time, depth,
cylinder pressure, deco information etc).
The deco information returns ceiling and TTS rather than ceiling and
"time at ceiling", because that's what the dive computer has, and I
don't see any other way to return the information.
We don't report any events yet, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Starting with firmware v1.23, the OSTC3 settings can be configured
through the USB interface. There are new commands for reading, writing
and restoring the settings to their default values.
The Uwatec Meridian protocol is identical to the Uwatec Smart/Galileo
protocol, except for some additional framing around each data packet,
and the switch from IrDA to usb-serial communication. For parsing, the
data format appears to be identical to the Galileo data format.
Although the communication protocol of the OSTC3 is nearly identical to
that of the Frog, the different size parameters make it hard to share
the code easily. On top of that, if we ever implement native bluetooth
communication support, we'll need a completely separate backend anyway.
Therefore the Frog backend is simply duplicated, with a few OSTC3
specific changes applied here and there.
The existing ostc parser is upgraded to support the new OSTC3 data
format.
The Petrel (with updated firmware) supports an enhanced communication
protocol, which is more efficient and powerfull than the legacy Predator
compatibility mode. The new protocol uses data compression for faster
transfers and supports the ability to selectively download individual
dives. Last but not least, the new protocol isn't limited to the last
128kB of logbook data, but can access the full logbook capacity (16MB).
With the new interface, an application can easily retrieve the
underlying transport type from the device descriptors and present a
custom user interface element to the end-user for supplying transport
specific parameters. For example the serial port for devices using
serial communcication.
For devices using a usb-serial chipset or the bluetooth Serial Port
Profile (SPP/rfcomm), the transport type is DC_TRANSPORT_SERIAL, because
internally the serial emulation layer is used for the communication.
This is only a preliminary version. There is certainly some room for
improvement, but the basic functionality is already in place. That
should be sufficient for daily use, and possibles issues can always be
fixed when discovered.
The application shouldn't have to deal with the delay between packets.
If the default value isn't good enough, that should be fixed internally
and not on the application side.
The application shouldn't have to deal with the maximum number of
retries. If the default value isn't good enough, that should be fixed
internally and not on the application side.
The Uwatec Smart protocol supports reading individual settings. However
the version functions only reads those three values that we use
internally (model, serial number and device clock). That's a very
arbitrary subset and it would be much better to support reading
specific values. But that's something for later...
The version function requires device specific knowledge to use it (at
least the required buffer size), it is already called internally when
necessary, and only a few backends support it. Thus there is no good
reason to keep it in the high-level public api.
An application can now register an application defined callback
function, which will perform the actual logging. This provides
additional flexibility compared to logging to stderr with a hardcoded
format. Applications can now easily display the messages in their user
interface, customize the format, etc.
Although the internal logging function is a printf like function, the
arguments are converted into a plain string before being passed to the
callback function. This greatly improves interoperability with
programming languages which don't support C style variadic functions
(e.g. Python, C#, etc).
With the introduction of a context object, library initialization and
shutdown can be performed without requiring any global state. A single
process can use multiple independent contexts without any problems. The
lack of a global state also improves the thread-safety of the library.
At the moment, the new context object is primary used to implement an
improved logging system.
The devinfo and clock event data is now cached internally at the device layer.
This allows the new dc_parser_new() convenience function to retrieve the event
data directly from the device handle, and applications don't have to deal with
the events anymore to create a parser.
With the introduction of the device descriptors, the new dc_device_open()
convenience function can take care of the mapping from a particular model to
the corresponding backend internally, without needing any device specific
knowledge in the application. An application can simply query the list of
supported devices, and the library will automatically do the right thing.
Applications can now enumerate all the supported devices at runtime,
and don't have to maintain their own list anymore. The internal list
does include only those devices that have been confirmed to work at
least once without any major problems.
As the name already indicates, a device descriptor is lightweight
object which describes a single device. Currently, the api supports
getting the device name (vendor and product) and model number. But
this can extended with other features when necessary.
Adding the "dc_" namespace prefix (which is of course an abbreviation
for libdivecomputer) should avoid conflicts with other libraries. For
the time being, only the high-level device and parser layers are
changed.
Note that this implementation will fail if the ringbuffer doesn't start
at the fixed address 0xA000. This is very likely to occur once the
ringbuffer is filled completely and the device starts to overwrite old
data.
