Reading data from my Scuba Diving computer after Linux removed IrDA support
When I go Scuba Diving, I use two diving computers. It's always good to have a fallback, right? My main computer is a ScubaPro Uwatec Galileo Luna. That's a wrist mounted computer with hoseless air-integration. That means that a sender is connected to the first stage of the regulator, and it transmits data to the wrist computer. In addition the computer records data like depths, consumption, temperature, alarms ect. My fallback is an air-integrated console mounted Suuntu Cobra. I check this computer too when I'm under water, but mostly for the most conservative reading for the safety stop.
The Luna computer has an IrDA port, and using a USB Infrared Adapter (I'm using an IRwave 3902B500) I was able to read all the dive logs from the computer into Subsurface. However at some point, Linux decided that IrDA is no longer worth supporting, and they removed the support and modules in Linux 4.17.
Bummer.
It's possible to read the most basic data about each dve on the computer display itself, but you won't get all the details, and the profiles.
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