CRESSI .JSON Backup files

[Speysider23]

Hi
I am writing on behalf of my partner who is the diver.
She has been using a Cressi Donatello dive computer for the last 2 years but recently bought a Sunnto Eon Core. All her previous 100+ dive logs have been stored in the Cressi UCI software but she has asked me if I can import them into Subsurface (where she intends to store all her dive logs going forward).
I have made a back-up of the logs in the Cressi software, saved them to the desktop but when I try to import them into Subsurface I get a message saying "Subsuface failed to parse".

I have spoken to Cressi and apparently they no longer support their software so can't/won't help.
I have tried using an online file conversion software to rewrite the backed-up dive logs into another type of file but once again the software can't read the Cressi JSON files.

Does anyone have any idea how I can import the dive logs from the Cressi software into Subsuface please?

Regards

Chris

 

[Mobulai]

I’m not familiar with the Cressi DC, but maybe you could try importing directly from the divecomputer (if it still lives) to Subsurface?
Sorry I don’t have a better idea

Also, there might be something here

Scubapro Logtrak: import paper dives + windows version

Hi, over the years (although I am an IT person) I have never ever used a logbook software, for two reasons: - I started 23 years ago with an Aladin X that required special cables + parallel port to import data into a very old version of Smartrak - When I moved to a Galileo 12 years ago my PC had...

scubaboard.com

… json files can be relatively easily converted to other excel formats, so that could be another workaround

 

[Speysider23]

I’m not familiar with the Cressi DC, but maybe you could try importing directly from the divecomputer (if it still lives) to Subsurface?
Sorry I don’t have a better idea

Also, there might be something here

Scubapro Logtrak: import paper dives + windows version

Hi, over the years (although I am an IT person) I have never ever used a logbook software, for two reasons: - I started 23 years ago with an Aladin X that required special cables + parallel port to import data into a very old version of Smartrak - When I moved to a Galileo 12 years ago my PC had...

scubaboard.com

… json files can be relatively easily converted to other excel formats, so that could be another workaround

Thanks, I have managed to download the last 50 dive logs from the Cressi Donatello in to Subsurface . Still 67 from before March 2023 missing though.

Thanks again

Chris

 

[dmaziuk]

Does anyone have any idea how I can import the dive logs from the Cressi software into Subsuface please?

What's the JSON look like? can you post/PM me?

 

[flymolo]

If you know how to program you can write some quick python to massage the json into a format supported by subsurface. Otherwise you can check the subsurface documentation online and see if they have a conversion tool or if anyone on the message board there has a solution ready

 

[dmaziuk]

If you know how to program you can write some quick python to massage the json into a format supported by subsurface. Otherwise you can check the subsurface documentation online and see if they have a conversion tool or if anyone on the message board there has a solution ready

It remains to be seen what JSON has in it and if/how that'd map to subsurface's XML, that's why I asked for a sample.

 

[Speysider23]

What's the JSON look like? can you post/PM me?

Hi
Thanks for your offer of help, please find attached the Cressi.json backup log file.
I am afraid I am not a programmer so I can't do much with it other than open it in Sublime Text.

It wouldn't let me attach the .json file directly as it was a format that wasn't supported so I had to ZIP it.

Regards
Chris

 

[dmaziuk]

Hi
Thanks for your offer of help, please find attached the Cressi.json backup log file.
I am afraid I am not a programmer so I can't do much with it other than open it in Sublime Text.

It wouldn't let me attach the .json file directly as it was a format that wasn't supported so I had to ZIP it.

Regards
Chris

Looks doable, not sure when I get a fresh supply of round tuits though...

@atdotde, do you know much about subsurface's CSV imports off the top of your head? -- I'd do that rather than native XML. There are 60 dives, would subsurface need 60 "dive detail" CSVs and 60 "dive profile" CSVs?

 

[Mobulai]

Looks doable, not sure when I get a fresh supply of round tuits though...

@atdotde, do you know much about subsurface's CSV imports off the top of your head? -- I'd do that rather than native XML. There are 60 dives, would subsurface need 60 "dive detail" CSVs and 60 "dive profile" CSVs?

https://subsurface-divelog.org/subsurface-user-manual/#S_ImportingCSVData

Yes, a csv file per dive; I’d try it that way as well, some python parser to generate the csv files from json and then import into subsurface — I could also try at it but don’t know when I have something ready, finally made it to somewhere warm anf sandy and getting wet on the daily

 

[Mobulai]

I had some success with dive #1 -- next challange is getting it into Subsurface nicely
the CSV I get so far have a "dive condition labels and starting conditions header" that have to be deleted manually to be able to import cleanly into Subsurface, but you lose some Metadata like dive time/date/starting tissue saturation/repetitive count and so on

Easy fix to ignore the header and I will have all the dive logs ready for you now (like in 5 minutes); but if you want to keep the metadata I have to think how to approach the whole parsing in a different way
(you can input the metadata manually in Subsurface after the import)