Specs for Suunto .sdl and Uwatec .slg files?

[bluebanded goby]

I have dive logs going back 15 years or so from Suunto Mosquito and D3 instruments (in .sdl format) and from an Uwatec Aladin Tec (in .slg format). Are there published specs for these files? I thought I might play around with extracting data from the files and crunching it in various ways.

 

[bluebanded goby]

From a little looking around, I found I could open my Suunto Dive Manager 1.x files (.sdl) with Suunto Dive Manager 2, export to .sde, change the file extension to .zip, then unzip, producing XML files that can be browsed for the data sample points. Still looking into the SmartTRAK file.

 

[elmo]

One of the Subsurface developers made a standalone tool to convert slg files to a Subsurface xml.
At the moment you need to compile it yourself. Search for SmartTrak in Subsurface 4.6 User Manual | Subsurface.
The easier option is to email subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org and request assistance converting your files.
Alternatively, I think you might be able to open an slg file with Microsoft Access.

 

[bluebanded goby]

Thanks, very helpful. I have Linux installed as a virtual machine, and although my competence level with it is far from expert, I can probably pick my way through installing the Subsurface version that supports the slg to xml conversion. Thanks again!

 

[morejanus]

Diving Log 6.0 (Diving Log 6.0 - Scuba Log, Scuba Logbook, Dive Log, Divelog - Logbook software for scuba diving - Logbuch Software zum Tauchen) will import your SmartTrak slg file. It will also import the Suunto formats as well.

 

[bluebanded goby]

Hi Janice, thanks for the note. Is Diving Log different from Dive Log Manager? I believe I bought the latter based on one of our prior discussions. Does it export anything human-readable such as an XML or csv format?

 

[morejanus]

SmartTRAK is PC/Windows only, not Mac. So assumed you had a PC/Windows machine. Diving Log 6.0 is from another developer that we work closely with. So Diving Log 6.0 is essentially the PC/Windows version of our macOS DiveLogDT/Dive Log Manager software. We have compatible/interchangable/identical logbook formats between all our different platforms.

For people that have switched from a PC to Mac, we offer a "one time" conversion of your PC based SmartTRAK slg file into a DiveLogDT/Dive Log Manager/DiveLog logbook file. If you're still on a PC/Windows machine, then you probably want Diving Log 6.0 instead. You should check the website to see what formats it can Export to (www.divinglog.de)

Hope that answers your question.

 

[bluebanded goby]

Thanks, Janice. Actually I've got macOS, Windows and two flavors of Unix in the box. What I'm really looking for is a conversion utility for the .slg files so I can continue to convert them on an ongoing basis. Right now I'm chipping away at compiling Subsurface under Linux so that I can use their stand-alone utility that converts .slg to XML.

 

[divinglog]

With Diving Log you can import your *.slg files and export them to Excel, XML, UDCF, UDDF, SQLite and other formats. SmartTrak files are actually Access database files with password protection (you should find it here on Scubaboard), but the profile format is stored in binary format which is not easy to read.

 

[bluebanded goby]

One of the Subsurface developers made a standalone tool to convert slg files to a Subsurface xml.

Elmo, just a follow-up -- it took a bit of doing, but I got Subsurface installed under Ubuntu, and was able to built the stand-alone utility to convert the old .slg file to XML. Thanks again for the pointer to that.