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Are you using JTrak on a Mac to pull dive logs off of your Uwatec dive computer (SmartCOM, SmartTEC, SmartPRO, SmartZ, Aladin PRIME, Aladin TEC, Aladin ONE, Aladin 2G, Aladin TEC 2G, Galileo SOL, Galileo TERRA und Galileo LUNA)? Do you have old logs stuck in JTrak that you would like to move to some other software? Read on!
I recently got back into diving and bought a whole bag of used equipment for a very decent price. One of the items was a very gently used Galileo Sol, which has served me just fine for the time being and I have no urge to replace it yet. Once I had a couple of dives logged, I started looking at software options to manage my dives and all my shiny new (aka used) gear on my beloved MacBook. That's when I first stumbled across MacDive, which looked like an awesome tool to me (still does!). Lo and behold, I quickly found out about the issues around the support for the Uwatec computers in MacDive. Well, bummer, I thought, I'll just make do with JTrak!. That lasted for about 2 weeks and I got frustrated with the lack of features, specifically the inability to manage gear, sites, and other things supported by MacDive. OK, I thought, I'll just export from JTrak and import into MacDive. As you all probably know, that's not an option out of the box. The perl script I found to convert the JTrak Excel output to a format MacDive could work with seemed like a good option. However, in the course of looking for it, I also dug a little deeper into JTrak's data format and code architecture. My goal was to have a simple tool that could convert JTrak data directly into an XML format compatible with other dive log software (mainly MacDive, really! Did I mention that I like MacDive?).
Anyway, long story short, after cobbling something together, I decided to wrap it all up into something others might also find useful: JTrak2XML. Feel free to give it a spin and let me know if it works (or doesn't).
The tool allows you to export all your dives from JTrak to MacDive XML or UDDF format. You will need to enter your name (or someone else's, JTrak2XML don't care) as well as the location of the JTrak app. The window that pops up when you run the tool should be pretty self-explanatory.
For now, it's a pretty bare-bones tool wrapped into a simple application. On platforms other than OS X (not yet tested; when asked for the JTrak app, point it at a file named JTrak.jar instead) you will need to use the command line (a single command you can copy and paste from the GitHub site. You can do it!!).
Let me know what you think! Any feedback would be very much appreciated!
I recently got back into diving and bought a whole bag of used equipment for a very decent price. One of the items was a very gently used Galileo Sol, which has served me just fine for the time being and I have no urge to replace it yet. Once I had a couple of dives logged, I started looking at software options to manage my dives and all my shiny new (aka used) gear on my beloved MacBook. That's when I first stumbled across MacDive, which looked like an awesome tool to me (still does!). Lo and behold, I quickly found out about the issues around the support for the Uwatec computers in MacDive. Well, bummer, I thought, I'll just make do with JTrak!. That lasted for about 2 weeks and I got frustrated with the lack of features, specifically the inability to manage gear, sites, and other things supported by MacDive. OK, I thought, I'll just export from JTrak and import into MacDive. As you all probably know, that's not an option out of the box. The perl script I found to convert the JTrak Excel output to a format MacDive could work with seemed like a good option. However, in the course of looking for it, I also dug a little deeper into JTrak's data format and code architecture. My goal was to have a simple tool that could convert JTrak data directly into an XML format compatible with other dive log software (mainly MacDive, really! Did I mention that I like MacDive?).
Anyway, long story short, after cobbling something together, I decided to wrap it all up into something others might also find useful: JTrak2XML. Feel free to give it a spin and let me know if it works (or doesn't).
The tool allows you to export all your dives from JTrak to MacDive XML or UDDF format. You will need to enter your name (or someone else's, JTrak2XML don't care) as well as the location of the JTrak app. The window that pops up when you run the tool should be pretty self-explanatory.
For now, it's a pretty bare-bones tool wrapped into a simple application. On platforms other than OS X (not yet tested; when asked for the JTrak app, point it at a file named JTrak.jar instead) you will need to use the command line (a single command you can copy and paste from the GitHub site. You can do it!!).
Let me know what you think! Any feedback would be very much appreciated!
