Jedimark needs help with SleepyHead

[jedimark]

Hi, once again sorry guys and gals about my absence, my inbox once again has me a bit swamped...

I haven't been getting much done with SleepyHead, because I have been too foggy, headachy and feeling Meh to think straight. I've been experiencing constant left sided weakness, leg cramps, chronic muscle pain, messed up balance, micro-blackouts, and annoying arm/leg twitching/jerks. So far it's all been pinned on chronic/complex migraines, I'm still waiting to get to the bottom of it all with various docs and specialists, and get a straight answer why nothing is improving.

On the plus side, as a result I have plenty of time to code the moment... but every time I sit down in front of my editor I zone out in the thick pool of fog, and nothing good ends up happening.

So I have something I badly need help with to keep SleepyHead alive and kicking.

Being a constantly foggy mess, my mind is often incredibly disorganised and fuzzy.. I desperately need help forming a prioritised list of most important bugs in SleepyHead for me to work on, so I can pick the most important thing off the top, and tinker away at it until its fixed without being distracted/confused/thrown off by anything else.

EDIT: By bugs, I mean bugs in the unstable/GIT builds, as many of the older builds have bugs that have been fixed already.

I'd really like to ask the community for a little help here.. maybe you can use this thread to organise it, maybe post a poll on what is most important/annoying bug.. I'm not sure exactly how. But I'd really like one person to volunteer to help manage/pool together any results and get in contact with me if I miss it here.

Can I please leave that with you guys & gals to organise?

I really am looking forward to making SleepyHead more solid and user friendly than ever before, but I need to get back into a functional zone again.

Anyway, I hope your all sleeping well!

/JediMark

[BeadyEl]

Wow, sorry to hear about all your various health issues.

I use sleepyhead for Mac v0.9.2-2 (beta) and it's been terrific! Kudos on a great program. I've seen no significant bugs, though I've only been using it a week.

Hope you're able to get help with your various ailments. Take care.

[Developer]

I'm new here so perhaps you want someone you already know but I'm an experienced programmer (although I haven't been professionally programming for a number of years). I can certainly still document trouble reports and prioritize tasks if that's all you want. If you want coding assistance, depending on the language IDE I can probably lend a hand there too. Let me know if you want me to jump in and I'll provide direct contact info.

[nanwilson]

I'm new here so perhaps you want someone you already know but I'm an experienced programmer (although I haven't been professionally programming for a number of years). I can certainly still document trouble reports and prioritize tasks if that's all you want. If you want coding assistance, depending on the language IDE I can probably lend a hand there too. Let me know if you want me to jump in and I'll provide direct contact info.

Developer the only way Mark can let you know is via pm.... and he can't do that unless you register on the forum . Easy task, just go to user control panel and follow the links, that way once you are register you can pm each other with any info needed.

[NameGoesHere]

I've registered now. Mark, PM me if you'd like.

[JDS74]

Jedimark:

I will volunteer to coordinate a bug list for you.

I think the best way would be to start a separate thread so posts to it will be only bugs for the most recent versions of SleepyHead. That way folks don't have to navigate SourceForge bug reporting.

Let me know.

[Todzo]

Hi, once again sorry guys and gals about my absence, my inbox once again has me a bit swamped...

Mark your contribution has enabled me to not only to be aware of and take care of obstructive issues but also to sort out my PAP induced breathing instability issues as well.

Simply thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

EDIT: By bugs, I mean bugs in the unstable/GIT builds, as many of the older builds have bugs that have been fixed already.

Well Mark when I tried to “make” in Fedora 20 today I got:

oximetry.h:17:28: fatal error: qextserialport.h: No such file or directory
#include <qextserialport.h>

And am now looking at some sources of the missing function.

Is that the sort of error you want to find/process?

I do have XP, W7, W8 in house

[NameGoesHere]

Hi, once again sorry guys and gals about my absence, my inbox once again has me a bit swamped...

Mark your contribution has enabled me to not only take be aware of and take care of obstructive issues but to sort out my PAP induced breathing instability issues as well.

Simply thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

EDIT: By bugs, I mean bugs in the unstable/GIT builds, as many of the older builds have bugs that have been fixed already.

Well Mark when I tried to “make” in Fedora 20 today I got:

oximetry.h:17:28: fatal error: qextserialport.h: No such file or directory
#include <qextserialport.h>

And am now looking at some sources of the missing function.

Is that the sort of error you want to find/process?

I do have XP, W7, W8 in house

seems to be a QT header file, do you have QT installed? Might need to yum it in then try to make a second time.

[Todzo]

Hi, once again sorry guys and gals about my absence, my inbox once again has me a bit swamped...

Mark your contribution has enabled me to not only take be aware of and take care of obstructive issues but to sort out my PAP induced breathing instability issues as well.

Simply thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

EDIT: By bugs, I mean bugs in the unstable/GIT builds, as many of the older builds have bugs that have been fixed already.

Well Mark when I tried to “make” in Fedora 20 today I got:

oximetry.h:17:28: fatal error: qextserialport.h: No such file or directory
#include <qextserialport.h>

And am now looking at some sources of the missing function.

Is that the sort of error you want to find/process?

I do have XP, W7, W8 in house

seems to be a QT header file, do you have QT installed? Might need to yum it in then try to make a second time.

http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/

[Flats]

Not sure if this is a bug or not but posted it not 10 mins ago in Pugsy's pointers and I just saw this post so my apologies for double posting. I just downloaded the latest (yesterday) Sleepyhead for linux (64 bit deb precompiled) and it installed fine and started up fine. However when I go to download my data It shows the Brand (Philips Respironics) Model (System One RemStar Auto with A-Flex (560P)
Serial # (P11...) But it says No CPAP Machine Data Imported.

I pointed to the root of the SD Card and thats where it found the model data but no actual working data at all.

I then installed the encorebasic for windows and it worked fine. Showed all the graphs and all.

I would much rather use Linux as that is my personal Laptop. My windows machine is my work computer which I really shouldn't be using. Not that this is a big deal but just thought maybe someone would have an idea or the developer would want to know. It is have great having that data readily available just being to see the data and showing the machine is working well is a great feeling...

Thanks

[Pugsy]

(Philips Respironics) Model (System One RemStar Auto with A-Flex (560P)
Serial # (P11...) But it says No CPAP Machine Data Imported.

Check my pointers thread for a response to your problem. I think you are just missing the Patch file needed for the 60 series machine.

[legoman]

I just download the 0.9.4-1 unstable build (Windows) and the first time around, it crashed when paging backwards in the daily view. I wasn't able to reproduce this, but does SleepyHead dump crash logs somewhere that might help?

Perhaps I haven't set something correctly somewhere or it's a bug, but it's reporting the session times in UTC, i.e., not in my time zone (even though I set that in my profile). I'm using a F&P Icon, in case that matters (which I'm grateful for adding to SleepyHead!).

As for bug tracking, is there already a thread for this? If not, I'll create one and link to it from the pinned "pointers" thread.

;ted

[strongnose]

Hey Mark,

Have you considered moving the project from SourceForge to GitHub? This actually might be a good reason to consider it. The interface in terms of git is largely the same, but it's much easier for other people to contribute, and it gives you much better site presentation options. It also comes with a top-notch issue tracker with prioritization and categorization features, which would make it really easy for us to help triage issues for you. And the display would be really nice for you too.

If you're interested, I'd be happy to set it up for you. SleepyHead is great free software.

-Sean (a fellow programmer)

[jedimark]

I've already got a github account, it's been a while since I've used it. I'll have another look into it's bug tracking/patch management features and see if anythings improved since I last used it.
Sourceforge provides me with mirrored binary hosting, which github as far as I am aware does not offer. There's a few other features lacking too which put me off it. I will definitely give it another review though.

It's not really the sourceforges bug tracking system I have a problem with, it works as well as most others I've tried... the main problem is sorting through and prioritising them.

A lot of bugs get submitted without any information regarding build/version numbers, platform/operating system, and I'm left guessing a lot of details I need to reproduce the problem.
Sometimes bug reports are submitted from custom builds made with unsupported Qt versions (which are known to cause problems, in fact quite a large number of SleepyHead graphical/font bugs were directly caused by Qt library bugs in older versions.). Qt5.x is now the minimum requirement for official support.

For anyone who wants to help out with code, I prefer plain old "git diff" patches over anything that requires git wizardry, personally I find them much easier to test and review. You should be able to send them to my sourceforge email alias, but please put the words SLEEPYHEAD and PATCH somewhere in the subject line to make it easier for me to search. (I know I've missed a few, and I'd like to apologise to anyone who has submitted any patches, my mailbox is a mess)

Please may I ask that individual bug reports are not posted in this thread. I have enough bug reports popping up in random places, they really don't help me track what's going on.