OSCAR version 1.7.1 now available

[BlueDragon]

OSCAR version 1.7.1 has been released. You may find it at https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR.

Here are the additions, changes, and fixes in this version:

• [fix] Flow size in Vrem-loader
• [added] SpO2 baseline calculation setting - located in Preferences
• [added] Support for Resmed Sleepmate series
• [added] Support for SpO2 support in BMC loader
• [added] Support for the Yuwell YH-500 series CPAP
• [added] Support for the Yuwell YH-580 series CPAP
• [added] New database version number to viatom_loader
• [added] Support documentation for building with Qt6
• [updated] Linux mkOSDistDeb scripts for error checking and added functionality
• [updated] Linux support build scripts for improved functionality
• [updated] Windows buildall.bat to use all available CPU cores for building OSCAR
• [updated] Russian Translation
• [updated] Chinese.zh_TW Translation

[CrimsonNape]

A quick update to the release notes above.

OSCAR 1.7.1 has added an installation package for the Apple Silicon M series computers.
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[milaaady]

I have printed my stats to show my PCP. She doesn't know squat like most providers. She sent me for sleep study to see if my pressures need to be adjusted. I use the airsense auto that adjust pressures as needed. The sleep study recommended my settings set at 8 to 11. My stats show my average pressure is 12. I don't understand the need to limit the max, if pressure is needed then given upto 20. The sleep tech didn't like my mask (yep took my own). It works the best for me so I do what I have to. They also recommended mask education. I haven't met any DME employee who knew more about mask than the folks who fight to find on that works.

Anyway going to show her Oscar stats and tell her it is free to download and use so PCP"S and other providers can see the all the stats, I don't think I need sleep studies anymore. I mean once I get close to that 20 being an average pressure anyway. My Periodiox Leg Movement is completely gone. I find that odd since somehow when I sleep I end up turning my top sheet and blanket completely around so that the top edge is at my feet. This happens more than I like to admit.

I don't understand why they don't look at the data we already have, especially since it is multiple nights of data not just one. I did sleep well once I got to sleep.

[alancalan]

Is there any way to use Oscar on a cell phone? I have an air curve 11 and a Samsung s25 Ultra. I mean something would have to be transmitted I guess out of the aircraft 11 or I need some kind of reader for the s25 Ultra.

[BlueDragon]

No, OSCAR can run only on laptops or desktop-class computers. I have heard of some technical person who was able to extract the CSV report from OSCAR and post it to a web page, which could of course be seen on a smartphone. I expect efforts like this to become more possible with the soon to be released OSCAR 2.0 which will allow extracting data to be much easier.

[alancalan]

For some reason I don't think doing all that extra work would make it easier to use.. ironically, I went to look at last night's progress cuz I slept almost 8 hours It had a 2.0 AHI which is very good for me these days but I only got one point out of 20 on the on the leaks. My sleep doctor's office doesn't seem to think that's a problem as long as the AHI is below five and lincare says it's okay if it's below seven but people here told me that if the leaks of that bad the AHIs might not be accurate.

So now I have to get an SD card I don't think I have one or do I must somewhere. I wonder how many days the air curve 11 keeps the information.

[Pugsy]

So now I have to get an SD card I don't think I have one or do I must somewhere. I wonder how many days the air curve 11 keeps the information.

The machine will store the data for at least a year but the data it stores is pretty much what you can see on the LCD screen already.
All the cool detailed data you can see with OSCAR has to be stored on a SD card which has to be inserted in the machine all night during use. It writes that detailed data directly to the SD card. It doesn't store the detailed data beyond that summary stuff you can see already on the LCD screen or the MyAir thing.

Just how bad are your leak numbers?

[alancalan]

Let me give you a rundown. By the way it seems like the Oscar I'm using is from 2024 I think it's 1.51 or something like that not 1.71 which is the new one and I'm not sure which one I need the 32-bit or the 64-bit. I have a feeling I can use either one because I have a Windows 11 computer with decent amount of RAM and disk space and it's pretty quick. But I'm wondering do I need to use the same one I used before to utilize all that information. In other words if I used 32 before, must I use 32 again or will the 64 pull in all the 32-bit information.

So yesterday I decided to give the F20 full face mask another shot. One of the problems I was having was saliva but I think you get used to it and it stops because I hooked it up and I must have been up for at least an hour or maybe longer with the mask on running but not sleeping. And I'm wondering also now is there any kind of information on Oscar that would tell you you're not sleeping.

So I started the mask at about 1:15 a.m. plus a little junk that happened at 5:00 in the afternoon prior to going to bed. Looking at the graphs not that I know what I'm looking at but it seems like there's more trouble in the beginning and when I woke up and when I woke up I left the mask on while I was up trying to fall back to sleep. So I stopped the machine around 5:30 AM. By the way I found my SD card, It was in the machine I don't know how I missed it but I think I'm too tired.

So now I'm looking at the stats for last night. AHI is 17 not good It says I slept for 4 hours which is probably right but that also includes the time of that I wasn't sleeping. Large leak 0.24% clear airway 10.25 obstructive 5.00 unclassified apnea 0.25 hypopnea 1.50 so I don't know how they get to 17 Oh unless clear airway is an apnea event. I need to read something on how to interpret all this stuff. You think I have all this settled and I was doing really well I had gotten my first machine in 2003 and that was the Sullivan bypass and I never really had these kind of problems until I use the full face mask That was always an issue with it hydroplaning off my face. But the Air Fit F20 seemed to work okay last night as it stayed on and outside of the times when I was actually awake I think the AHIs were probably better.

The day before using the p30i and the white I think it's called deluxe chin strap actually that wasn't bad that was 2.15 on the AHI but the The large leak was 38.94% clear airway was 1.18 obstructive 0.43 and classified apnea 0.11 and hypopnea 0.43 so that's a dramatically better AHI. So according to Oscar I slept 9 hours and 18 minutes the night before with the P-30I but some of that was with me awake and a podcast was on. The numbers are the same It's just that Oscar has more of them. The night before I got a full points from ResMed except on the mask fit and that I got 1 out of 20. And during the day I was pretty good but I didn't have a crisp I'm after being awake. Also I noticed that my oxygen level seems to be a little bit lower. I think it was mostly 96-97 And now it's 95. Also I'm looking at the graph in the LLs were pretty consistent for most of it except for from about 2:15 to about 4:45, Then they were a bunch of leaks and then it was okay from 5:00 to 5:45 and then for the rest of the sleeping a lot of leaks no way I could count them.

I'm tired now, and they felt that way last night too but not terribly but I feel it more today than I did yesterday.

So is there any way I could get something to read so that I can interpret these statistics better?

I'm going to try to stick with the air fit F20 full face mask again tonight and see if I can extend the amount of sleep because the apnea events that I had last night all seem to be around the time when I was not really sleeping. So and if I ask this already but is there any statistic on here that would tell you that you were not sleeping?

I'm looking at the leak numbers now for the other days Thursday night it was 13.75 with a 1.36 AHI that's pretty good for 6 hours and 36 minutes.

Wednesday .072 AHI. Ll 22.06 Sometimes I fall asleep without the mask on But I don't think that happened Wednesday.

Tuesday slept 4 hours and 34 minutes, AHI 3.07, LL 26.55 Monday slept 5 hours and 3 minutes, AHI was 158, LL 21.51

Sunday slept 7 hours 12 minutes, AHI 3.75, LL 25.15

Saturday slept 5 hours 13 minutes, AHI 498, LL 29.66

Friday slept 7 hours 35 minutes AHI 1.05, large leaks 37.69

Thursday slept 2 hours and 58 minutes I must have fallen asleep without the mask because it says 5:20 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. so this isn't going to help but for the hell of it so it says I slept 2 hours 58 minutes, AHI of 4.72 and large leaks 57.00

Wednesday slept 6 hours 55 minutes AHI 3.61 large leaks 11.02

Tuesday slept 7 hours 14 minutes AHI 2.49 large leaks 15.88


So I don't seem to be doing badly on the p30i except for one out of 20 that I get for mask fit problems and does that interfere with the actual AHI calculations.

I just checked my oxygen so on the right index finger started out at 97 so I said oh that's good and then it went down to 9594 and it hit 88 went up to 90 and it seems like it was hovering between 93 and 95. On the left index finger started out at 99 ended up hovering between 93 and 95. Ironically I lost a lot of weight on Ozempic, not too much I probably have another 20 to go but I thought things are going to be getting better.

[Pugsy]

I'm looking at the leak numbers now for the other days Thursday night it was 13.75 with a 1.36 AHI that's pretty good for 6 hours and 36 minutes.

Wednesday .072 AHI. Ll 22.06 Sometimes I fall asleep without the mask on But I don't think that happened Wednesday.

Tuesday slept 4 hours and 34 minutes, AHI 3.07, LL 26.55 Monday slept 5 hours and 3 minutes, AHI was 158, LL 21.51

Sunday slept 7 hours 12 minutes, AHI 3.75, LL 25.15

Saturday slept 5 hours 13 minutes, AHI 498, LL 29.66

Friday slept 7 hours 35 minutes AHI 1.05, large leaks 37.69

Thursday slept 2 hours and 58 minutes I must have fallen asleep without the mask because it says 5:20 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. so this isn't going to help but for the hell of it so it says I slept 2 hours 58 minutes, AHI of 4.72 and large leaks 57.00

Wednesday slept 6 hours 55 minutes AHI 3.61 large leaks 11.02

Tuesday slept 7 hours 14 minutes AHI 2.49 large leaks 15.88

To learn if your computer is 32 or 64 bit search your computer for "sys info" It will tell you plainly what it is but I suspect it is 64 bit and it really matters that you choose the right choice.

So no where do I see a subjective report on how you feel and how you slept. That's kinda important. It's not all about the numbers especially when you don't understand them.

First the metric is L/min not % and the only place % comes into play is what the L/min comes into play is what it means when you see that number on the LCD screen. It's a 95% number and all that means is that for 95% of the night you were AT OR BELOW that number.
It does NOT necessarily mean that your leak was at that number all night long and it. The "OR BELOW" part of the definition is critical to understand.
See this thread I did a while back. My 95% number was 48 L/min which if that is all you saw you would think a horrible night but it wasn't. It was only a bit iffy in terms of therapy for the period of time that I was up around that 48 L/min mark......about and hour or so. I slept through it. I think it will help you understand your data a little more.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=108724&p=1036669&hi ... t#p1036669

When the L/min rate gets over 30 to 35 L/min that is when therapy itself could be compromised but if you weren't up there very long only the time spent above 35 might cause your AHI to be falsely low because the machine might have missed something. Usually before that happens you will start seeing a lot of UA flags...unknown apnea.

AHI of 4.72 and large leaks 57.00

You would have to see the actual leak line in OSCAR to know just how significant the leak was. It might have been for only 15 minutes out of that entire night and ONLY that time is when the machine might have run into trouble.
Heck even my 48 L/Min 95% number was only around an hour. One hour out of the entire night isn't the end of the world.

And remember if you slept poorly with lots of arousals any AHI could be falsely elevated because the machine didn't know you were awake..... So that new mask might be causing arousals and you are maybe seeing false positives. If you aren't asleep they don't matter except to point to poor sleep quality.

[alancalan]

I took pictures of the last two nights results but I don't know how you get them in here as I think it's always been a little bit of a problem. I see the symbol for pictures and when I hit it it puts And I don't know what I'm supposed to put in between. It does not take me to the gallery of my phone. And by the way what came out in case it gets wiped out when I send it is IMG and then /IMG with square brackets. So do these pictures have to come from a site, which I don't have or can I send it to you in an email?

It seems like the airfare F20 with the silicon mask seem to be fitting fine yet I'm getting pretty high AHIs 12.8 and 17. I don't know why. Last night I woke up at about 4:30 I think and my machine was off so I put it back on and slept longer but I must have been sleeping for 4 and 1/2 hours plus what I slept using the machine. However today I'm tired and yesterday I was even more tired. I was thinking about getting mouth tape and using the p30i which I have been using with a chin strap sometimes it works good sometimes it doesn't work so good. The tighter I make it the better it works but then it starts wearing away your nostrils If it's too tight.

[Pugsy]

Did you wake often last night? Important that you answer please.

You have to put your image on your computer and then on to a photo hosting website for you to be able to post the image or a link here on the forum. Doesn't sound like your skill level can handle that chore.
A photo on your phone of the report image isn't going to have much detail and may be hard for me to make any sense out of anything.
What is the image????? Just the report from the LCD screen????

If you aren't using a SD card yet you can't use OSCAR and get the detailed data and that detailed data is critical.