Thinking about trying one of these as my machine's SD Card

[khauser]

Anyone try one of these? I'm thinking if I use this it'll make it much easier to run program's like SleepyHead without forgetting to put the card back.

I hear that some programs (Encore) won't let you choose a path, but I know of ways around that too should I need to.

[cosmo]

Does not work. Save yourself some headache and give up now

The good thing about a PR1 machine is that if you forget the card for 1 night, it will write the info to it when you insert the card back in. No such luck with Resmed machines as I forgot it twice.

[Pachyderm's Nose]

There was a discussion a while back that the wifi doesn't seem to recognise the files, it seems to only find and transfer image formats if I remember correctly.

[khauser]

Does not work. Save yourself some headache and give up now

The good thing about a PR1 machine is that if you forget the card for 1 night, it will write the info to it when you insert the card back in. No such luck with Resmed machines as I forgot it twice.

How does it not work though?

There was a discussion a while back that the wifi doesn't seem to recognise the files, it seems to only find and transfer image formats if I remember correctly.

I know they won't send non-image files. This specific card (unlike Eye.fi, for instance) can work with a WiFi access point, so essentially the card becomes a tiny network attached storage. So I wouldn't be relying on it PUSHING the files to my computer ... it would be my computer PULLING the files as needed.

[abpat2203]

I was wondering about it a couple of days ago. It would be interesting to get it to work. Let me go trawl through the internet to see if anyone has got it to work yet.

[Otter]

Anyone try one of these? I'm thinking if I use this it'll make it much easier to run program's like SleepyHead without forgetting to put the card back.

I haven't, though I certainly see the need for something like that.

Because of data recording bugs in my S9's firmware, I've gotten in the habit of rebooting the machine every night before I go to bed. If there's no card when I turn the surge suppressor back on, the S9 complains, hence I have to forget two things to loose data by sleeping with the card out. Does your PR1 complain if it doesn't have a card when you plug it in?

[chunkyfrog]

If someone could make it work, wouldn't the module companies be royally P.O.'d?
DME's who make a lot of bucks on the module rentals wouldn't be happy either.

[khauser]

If someone could make it work, wouldn't the module companies be royally P.O.'d?
DME's who make a lot of bucks on the module rentals wouldn't be happy either.

Why would the sd card companies be P.O.'d?

As for DME's, I've never seen one that cared about what happens once they got paid. That's why it is so important for us to take control. If the prescription from the sleep study is wrong, perhaps because that night was better than normal, or never gets caught unless WE catch it.

[Otter]

I think she means the manufacturers. With some machines, it costs an extra couple hundred bucks to plug the machine into your computer. If you could do the same thing with a cheap wifi or bluetooth adapter that went in the SD slot, they wouldn't sell as many of their overpriced widgets.

[khauser]

Oh! Thanks for that clarification. I guess they'd be upset, but if it has an SDCard this isn't really changing much besides the ease of access to that card's data.

[jedimark]

I contacted one manufacturer over this (Eye-Fi) a while ago, and their technical people said it wouldn't work.

But they did say it was a good idea.

Maybe one day we will get our hands on something this cool, but I wouldn't get your hopes up anytime soon.

It's worth contacting the manufacturers so they can see there is a demand for something this cool.

I'm looking for flouro-coloured normal SD cards so I can at least find the darn things on my desk..

[Otter]

Is the issue that the card only looks for and transmits image files? That sounds a) moronic, and b) hackable. Whether or not it would be worth the effort to hack it is another thing, though.

[khauser]

I contacted one manufacturer over this (Eye-Fi) a while ago, and their technical people said it wouldn't work.

But they did say it was a good idea.

Maybe one day we will get our hands on something this cool, but I wouldn't get your hopes up anytime soon.

It's worth contacting the manufacturers so they can see there is a demand for something this cool.

I'm looking for flouro-coloured normal SD cards so I can at least find the darn things on my desk..

LOL on the flouro!

Eye.Fi won't work. I don't think the Toshiba will work either. Both of those cards do not offer anything other than Ad-Hoc wifi connections.

The reason the Transcend is interesting is that you can connect to it Ad-Hoc and then configure it to connect to a wifi access point. (My wireless thermostat is like this as well.)

At least, that's the theory. I need to find a manual to confirm because the theory is based on sales-speak, and I know better....

Otter, yes that's kind of the issue. These cards were designed to push image files from a camera to a dedicated receiver, and they only look for images. That is quite a limiting factor!

[khauser]

Found the manual...

I think it *might* work. Reservations include the fact that there is one "image" on the card always, so if the xPAP machine wants the card to look extremely specifically as it does (no extra files) then it won't work.

Another reservation is that I think the name of the volume is fixed. That could be a killer too.

I will test some of these out using a regular SD card before I think about forking over the bucks...

A positive, though, is that the manual absolutely makes it clear that the device can be configured to work on my home network, and that it works with non-video files (but it won't push them automatically)

[bosstow]

According to this post, the Transcend will not work either.