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MacDive on iPad
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:24 pm
by pmareschal
iPad has a limited support for USB through the usb dock adapter. But there is an USB connector
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It is conceivable to download dives from a dive computer to an iPad application (without any other computer).
Is the API sufficiently open to read data from a dive computer? Drivers should be fairly standard (usb-to-serial), and are may be included in iPad's OS.
What about more sophisticated dive computer with bluetooth connections?
Has anyone tried it yet?
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Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:21 am
by Jimb
Dive Log is an iPad/iPhone app that can synch (sort of) with MacDive but AFAIK, does not directly directly synch with dive computers.
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:54 pm
by nick
That would be tricky. As far as I am aware, you have to be the original equipment manufacturer to be able to do that kind of interfacing on an iOS device.
Seems pretty unlikely it will happen, but you never know.
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:32 pm
by frogger
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:28 pm
by nick
I would like to have an online system where sites can be shared and rated etc, that kind of thing. A friend of mine was working on something, but he's since moved countries and started a new job so I think he's a little busy.
But it would be really nice to be able to share that kind of information, see others comments on dive sites etc.
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:12 pm
by ericvrp
Should be easy enough to ask users to automatically upload their divesite rating. If we could overlay that on a googgle maps somehow then there is very little the server-side has to take care of.
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:17 am
by nick
Yeah that's what I had in mind: basically the ratings for dives at that site automatically published, and just aggregated. Same way it's done in the app itself, but on a web page.
The trick would be merging all of the data together though - no doubt people would dive at the same site but name the country/location/site differently.
Then how do you deal with that? You could merge it server side (via an admin interface or some such), but the user wouldn't get those changes. Etc.
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Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:20 pm
by henrik
nick wrote:Yeah that's what I had in mind: basically the ratings for dives at that site automatically published, and just aggregated. Same way it's done in the app itself, but on a web page.
The trick would be merging all of the data together though - no doubt people would dive at the same site but name the country/location/site differently.
Then how do you deal with that? You could merge it server side (via an admin interface or some such), but the user wouldn't get those changes. Etc.
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An online dive log would have been awesome. I'm unable to find a good dive log on the web that synchronizes with dive computers, so I guess this could be quite popular! Make an open API for it, so that other dive log software can sync to it as well, instant success!
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:08 am
by henrik
How about supporting
http://en.divelogs.de/ ? Many other software packages support it...
Re: MacDive on iPad
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:48 am
by miraclemax
I think you're asking the wrong person. It would be up to that website to adapt itself to MacDive and not the other way around. But then again, maybe Nick will want to talk to them...