Aeris has just released a new version of their download software.
Check it out here: http://www.diveaeris.com/service_software.html
Check it out here: http://www.diveaeris.com/service_software.html
New Aeris Download Software
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Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
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Hey thanks Larry...hopefully it fixes some of the crashiness in the older one.
Gregg
Gregg
m3830431
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Thanks Larry. No matter what thsy say, I still think you are a good guy. 
Strike Two!!!
I'll admit that it definitely looks better and has a bunch new features but it is very buggy.
The two main problems I have been having are:
1) This new Lifetime Dive # and DC # thing has my dives all screwed up and is out of sync. I have done all of my dives on this computer but it labels my acutal 14th dive as Lifetime Dive #1. My actual 1st dive it have labelled as Lifetime Dive #17. There is no way I can find to change the Lifetime Dive number. It does the same thing in my wife's log but to a lesser degree. She has an Atmos 2 and I have an AI.
2) Now for the biggie... I tried to have it read my setting from my DC. It downloaded but then cause my PC to crash and reboot. Did it three times. God only knows what will happen when I have new dives to download.
I have e-mailed Aeris so I'll see what they say. Should be interesting.
When is the Zeagle Cobalt coming out?
I'll admit that it definitely looks better and has a bunch new features but it is very buggy.
The two main problems I have been having are:
1) This new Lifetime Dive # and DC # thing has my dives all screwed up and is out of sync. I have done all of my dives on this computer but it labels my acutal 14th dive as Lifetime Dive #1. My actual 1st dive it have labelled as Lifetime Dive #17. There is no way I can find to change the Lifetime Dive number. It does the same thing in my wife's log but to a lesser degree. She has an Atmos 2 and I have an AI.
2) Now for the biggie... I tried to have it read my setting from my DC. It downloaded but then cause my PC to crash and reboot. Did it three times. God only knows what will happen when I have new dives to download.
I have e-mailed Aeris so I'll see what they say. Should be interesting.
When is the Zeagle Cobalt coming out?
Any word on a fix for the Savant computer?
bperrybap
Contributor
Ok, so I spent several hours going through the new Aeris s/w.
Here are my fist impressions:
(I have the Aeris AI)
- Install from the download was easy and seamless.
- MAKE SURE to DOWNLOAD and INSTALL the PATCH!
It fixes the DC settings stuff. Without it, this section doesn't
work and will crash.
(I managed to get this information from the guys at Aeris and
I verified that was the case. On Win98 it does the transfer and
then crashes the application). With the patch it works.
- The GUI is WAY different. I found it difficult to use at first.
Not too intuitive. Easy to use, once you figure it out, just wasn't
intuitive to me.
(From some of the previous posts in the Divecomputer graph
thread, it looks like this is the s/w that came with the oceanic
ATOM)
- The really good part is that it is all one application now
including the DC settings stuff.
No stupid popups telling you your USB interface is there,
etc... Everything is done from the initial application.
- There are some GUI bugs. They have some issues with
screen sizes and scroll bars. On 1024x768 monitor sizes,
the Dive Details graph page drops alot of data off the bottom
of the screen when you zoom in.
- Graphing is different. It allows you to slide through it or
zoom in and then there is an image that lookes like a Dive
computer display that will update to show what your dive
computer would have looked like at that point in time.
- Importing. This area needs some work. While it will import
your dives. Alot of the extra text information you may have
entered doesn't seem to follow. Their import only reads
the MS access database file and that doesn't hold all the data.
- Dives are sorted by entry rather than date. They assign
a lifetime dive number to a dive. Only problem is it not based
on date. Its not useful how they are doing it. I'm sure this
will get fixed.
- Support for more than one Dive computer still makes things
complicated. They still need to do a bit more cleanup work in
this area.
I only have a single Dive computer but I'm sure if you have
more than one or your MS access file from the previous release
file was corrupted by having different serial #s (which looks
like multiple computers to them) things will be screwy.
- Exporting. If you are using something like ScuBase, then this
s/w will probably not be for you. Gone is the MS access file.
I'm not sure what the format is but it doesn't seem to be Access.
They do have and export function, but in only exports a single
dive (current selected dive) and it doesn't save as much
information as was in the Access database.
(There was alot of useful hidden data in the Access file)
- There are alot more fields and things tracked per dive that
can be manually added after the dive is downloaded or
imported. Site/Gear/boat/crew/buddy information.
- There are some queries that you can run to extract certain
dives. Coldest/longest/deepest/etc... Air/Nitrox, location,
operator/gear/buddy/ etc.. Some have ranges.
Kind of interesting.
- Through all of this playing, it only crashed during the DC
settings portion and that was only prior to downloading
and applying the patch. After the patch, it never crashed.
The previous release didn't do this well.
- Overall I think it is a big step in the right direction.
A few updates to the GUI to fix a few of the GUI formatting
issues and add a little bit more intuitiveness to it and it will
be pretty nice to use.
I've had some e-mail exchanges with a few of the guys at
Aeris/Oceanic and they seem much more energized now than
in the past. I'm working up a feedback/buglist to give to them
and we'll see where it goes from there.
I'm also trying to get them to assign somebody to read & respond
on SB.
--- Bill
Here are my fist impressions:
(I have the Aeris AI)
- Install from the download was easy and seamless.
- MAKE SURE to DOWNLOAD and INSTALL the PATCH!
It fixes the DC settings stuff. Without it, this section doesn't
work and will crash.
(I managed to get this information from the guys at Aeris and
I verified that was the case. On Win98 it does the transfer and
then crashes the application). With the patch it works.
- The GUI is WAY different. I found it difficult to use at first.
Not too intuitive. Easy to use, once you figure it out, just wasn't
intuitive to me.
(From some of the previous posts in the Divecomputer graph
thread, it looks like this is the s/w that came with the oceanic
ATOM)
- The really good part is that it is all one application now
including the DC settings stuff.
No stupid popups telling you your USB interface is there,
etc... Everything is done from the initial application.
- There are some GUI bugs. They have some issues with
screen sizes and scroll bars. On 1024x768 monitor sizes,
the Dive Details graph page drops alot of data off the bottom
of the screen when you zoom in.
- Graphing is different. It allows you to slide through it or
zoom in and then there is an image that lookes like a Dive
computer display that will update to show what your dive
computer would have looked like at that point in time.
- Importing. This area needs some work. While it will import
your dives. Alot of the extra text information you may have
entered doesn't seem to follow. Their import only reads
the MS access database file and that doesn't hold all the data.
- Dives are sorted by entry rather than date. They assign
a lifetime dive number to a dive. Only problem is it not based
on date. Its not useful how they are doing it. I'm sure this
will get fixed.
- Support for more than one Dive computer still makes things
complicated. They still need to do a bit more cleanup work in
this area.
I only have a single Dive computer but I'm sure if you have
more than one or your MS access file from the previous release
file was corrupted by having different serial #s (which looks
like multiple computers to them) things will be screwy.
- Exporting. If you are using something like ScuBase, then this
s/w will probably not be for you. Gone is the MS access file.
I'm not sure what the format is but it doesn't seem to be Access.
They do have and export function, but in only exports a single
dive (current selected dive) and it doesn't save as much
information as was in the Access database.
(There was alot of useful hidden data in the Access file)
- There are alot more fields and things tracked per dive that
can be manually added after the dive is downloaded or
imported. Site/Gear/boat/crew/buddy information.
- There are some queries that you can run to extract certain
dives. Coldest/longest/deepest/etc... Air/Nitrox, location,
operator/gear/buddy/ etc.. Some have ranges.
Kind of interesting.
- Through all of this playing, it only crashed during the DC
settings portion and that was only prior to downloading
and applying the patch. After the patch, it never crashed.
The previous release didn't do this well.
- Overall I think it is a big step in the right direction.
A few updates to the GUI to fix a few of the GUI formatting
issues and add a little bit more intuitiveness to it and it will
be pretty nice to use.
I've had some e-mail exchanges with a few of the guys at
Aeris/Oceanic and they seem much more energized now than
in the past. I'm working up a feedback/buglist to give to them
and we'll see where it goes from there.
I'm also trying to get them to assign somebody to read & respond
on SB.
--- Bill
plankspanker
Contributor
bperrybap:
Thanks for taking the time to write this up, especially the part about the export. I use scubase and you have saved me the trouble of installing this and then reinstalling the old version. I really hope scubase is able to import this eventually (and aeris works with them to make this happen) since I bought scubase for the sole reason that aeris software was horrible and other than downloading the data, pretty much unusable.
bperrybap
Contributor
Update:
I noticed this as I attempted to test the uninstall of the new release. (I am running Win98SE)
If you have and are using the old release and download and install
the new release, be careful.
The new release, loads and installs in a totally seperate location
and in no way affects your old release (other than replace your desktop ICON)
I had both loaded and ran both to do some comparisons.
However, when it comes time
to uninstall, both the old s/w and new s/w are named the same thing.
This means that it is impossible to tell which one to delete.
On Win98, when you go to [Control Panel]->[Add/Remove Programs],
You will see "AERIS Computer Interce" in the list TWICE.
In my case, the second one was the newer one.
(I figured this out by patching the names in the registry)
Not sure this will be consistent for everyone and I have no idea
what it does on other OS's.
Once I figured out which was which, the uninstall was clean
and the old version remained untouched.
Just a word of caution for those that want to try this release
and are still using their old release.
dyarab:
--------
Can you tell me which OS and which version of the Aeris s/w
you had installed prior to installing the new version? Also,
did you apply any patches to your previous s/w release?
One last thing, what did you do that got it to crash?
download, DC settings read, etc....
I'm really going to lean on the Aeris/Oceanic guys to get
all this stuff fixed.
Thanks,
--- bill
I noticed this as I attempted to test the uninstall of the new release. (I am running Win98SE)
If you have and are using the old release and download and install
the new release, be careful.
The new release, loads and installs in a totally seperate location
and in no way affects your old release (other than replace your desktop ICON)
I had both loaded and ran both to do some comparisons.
However, when it comes time
to uninstall, both the old s/w and new s/w are named the same thing.
This means that it is impossible to tell which one to delete.
On Win98, when you go to [Control Panel]->[Add/Remove Programs],
You will see "AERIS Computer Interce" in the list TWICE.
In my case, the second one was the newer one.
(I figured this out by patching the names in the registry)
Not sure this will be consistent for everyone and I have no idea
what it does on other OS's.
Once I figured out which was which, the uninstall was clean
and the old version remained untouched.
Just a word of caution for those that want to try this release
and are still using their old release.
dyarab:
--------
Can you tell me which OS and which version of the Aeris s/w
you had installed prior to installing the new version? Also,
did you apply any patches to your previous s/w release?
One last thing, what did you do that got it to crash?
download, DC settings read, etc....
I'm really going to lean on the Aeris/Oceanic guys to get
all this stuff fixed.
Thanks,
--- bill
I'm using Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2. The old version of the Aeris software was 1.0.7, I believe. AS far as I know it had the USB patch for that version as well... not sure.
To get it to crash I tried to have it read the DC settings. It would complete the download, blue screen, and reboot. Did it once, then I downloaded the patch and it did it 2 more times. On subsequent uses of the PC it was affecting the performance of my PC noticiably. Programs were not opening or openeing extremly slowly. It never did update the settings.
I have uninstalled the new version and am back to the previous version mentioned above. In Win XP Pro the older version of the software is labeled as ACI and not Aeris Computer Interface so it was easy to get rid of. All of the previous performance issues are gone as well.
Guess I'll wait to see if they patch it anytime soon. I'n not planning on diving in the near future so I can wait...
To get it to crash I tried to have it read the DC settings. It would complete the download, blue screen, and reboot. Did it once, then I downloaded the patch and it did it 2 more times. On subsequent uses of the PC it was affecting the performance of my PC noticiably. Programs were not opening or openeing extremly slowly. It never did update the settings.
I have uninstalled the new version and am back to the previous version mentioned above. In Win XP Pro the older version of the software is labeled as ACI and not Aeris Computer Interface so it was easy to get rid of. All of the previous performance issues are gone as well.
Guess I'll wait to see if they patch it anytime soon. I'n not planning on diving in the near future so I can wait...
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