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avi123 wrote:I still like this ResScan graph more:

That's okay. Whatever suits your preferences is what is important. I have ResScan but I haven't messed with it all that much. Remember I haven't had a need for it very long. I had been using Encore and/or SleepyHead all this past year with my Respironics machine. I am just more comfortable with SleepyHead than I am ResScan. I just haven't seen the need to play with ResScan much because there is nothing on it that I want to see that I can't see in SleepyHead.

Unless I am testing or experimenting with something..I don't even bother with daily importing of data.
Weekly is plenty and even then I often just import and leave it alone and look later.

I was bragging on your report data....I would have bragged on it with the ResScan report too.
That report is a far cry from you AHI of 12 a while back. Congratulations.

Pugsy wrote:You get the Happy Feet dance.

Oooooooooooooh! Is that cute!! I can't wait for a reason to use it!

Pugsy wrote:

avi123 wrote:I still like this ResScan graph more:

That's okay. Whatever suits your preferences is what is important. I have ResScan but I haven't messed with it all that much. Remember I haven't had a need for it very long. I had been using Encore and/or SleepyHead all this past year with my Respironics machine. I am just more comfortable with SleepyHead than I am ResScan. I just haven't seen the need to play with ResScan much because there is nothing on it that I want to see that I can't see in SleepyHead.

I agree with avi that several of the graph styles used in ResScan, as for example the Events graph, are much much quicker to understand and mentally digest than those same subject graphs in SleepyHead, which leads me to continue upload my data both to ResScan and to SleepyHead.

I am hoping that, when jedi is able, he would consider building in a switch in the SleepyHead graphs that would allow people to choose the style which each person finds most visually and mentally comprehensible. This is done, for example in Excel's graphing options where one can keep the data selected and switch graph types on the fly.

This would enable avi and me and others to stop loading the data into both programs and instead use SleepyHead exclusively which does, in other displays, do a better job than ResScan.

On a related subject, I am seeing greater variation in AHI calculation between ResScan and SleepyHead, particularly when I have a less than stellar night. Last night, for example, was such a night and SleepyHead told me my AHI was all the way up to 5.64 (yikes!) yet ResScan says it was 3.2 - isn't it strange to have such a substantial deviation between the two programs?

Nate

NateS wrote:I am seeing greater variation in AHI calculation between ResScan and SleepyHead, particularly when I have a less than stellar night. Last night, for example, was such a night and SleepyHead told me my AHI was all the way up to 5.64 (yikes!) yet ResScan says it was 3.2 - isn't it strange to have such a substantial deviation between the two programs?

This is indeed odd. I expect Mark monitors this thread and has seen your mention of this issue.
I haven't found any deviation other than rounding off. You might contact him (here or via sourceforge bug reporting) and see if there is anything he might need from you in the way of files or something to help him sort out the issues...or wait until SH gets a new makeover and see if the issue resolves itself.

I was wondering if there is any way for SH to import ResScan data? I have over 5 years of data collected in ResScan, and would love to be able to switch over to SH. I just don't want to lose all my data.

BTW - I'm on Mac OS X Lion, and using VMWare Fusion to run ResScan... which runs like a dog.

Thanks,
Ciarán...

P.S. Jedimark, if you want 5 years of ResScan data, I'd be happy to donate it to your development efforts!

Ciaran wrote:
BTW - I'm on Mac OS X Lion, and using VMWare Fusion to run ResScan... which runs like a dog.

Thanks,
Ciarán...

More ram will fix that.

I just replaced mine with 8GB (2x4) for $46 + free shipping and now ResScan literally snaps open within my Parallels 7 emulator/Windows XP on my 2009 MacBookPro running OS X Lion!

Best regards, Nate

NateS wrote:

Ciaran wrote:
BTW - I'm on Mac OS X Lion, and using VMWare Fusion to run ResScan... which runs like a dog.

Thanks,
Ciarán...

More ram will fix that.

I just replaced mine with 8GB (2x4) for $46 + free shipping and now ResScan literally snaps open within my Parallels 7 emulator/Windows XP on my 2009 MacBookPro running OS X Lion!

Best regards, Nate

Ciarán, if you decide to do that, I would also recommend then increasing the amount of memory assigned to your emulator - VMWare Fusion - from 512K to 1gig, to take advantage of the additional ram.

In fact, if you now have at least 4GB in your Mac, you might try raising VMWare Fusion to 1gig even without purchasing and installing additional ram. Just don't try to run a lot of other programs simultaneously while using ResScan.

It may still run "like a dog" but the dog will be a greyhound!

Regards, Nate

Pugsy wrote:

NateS wrote:I am seeing greater variation in AHI calculation between ResScan and SleepyHead, particularly when I have a less than stellar night. Last night, for example, was such a night and SleepyHead told me my AHI was all the way up to 5.64 (yikes!) yet ResScan says it was 3.2 - isn't it strange to have such a substantial deviation between the two programs?

This is indeed odd. I expect Mark monitors this thread and has seen your mention of this issue.
I haven't found any deviation other than rounding off. You might contact him (here or via sourceforge bug reporting) and see if there is anything he might need from you in the way of files or something to help him sort out the issues...or wait until SH gets a new makeover and see if the issue resolves itself.

I have just discovered that the huge variations in AHI between ResScan and SleepyHead occur only in the Mac version. For example, on the 28th of March mentioned above, SleepyHead/Mac reported me at 5.64 vs ResScan at 3.2; whereas SleepyHead/Windows reports me at 3.15, only a rounding away.

I have now checked other days in SleepyHead/Windows and found these extreme variances occurring between the two versions of SleepyHead. I'm getting worried about the accuracy of the data, and how far back these errors go, even though I like SleepyHead a lot.

Regards, Nate

I think some of this AHI stuff is specific to the latest mac build.. There was an attempt at fixing the DST bug, but it didn't get finished before my (seriously unintended) break from coding.

Ugh.. I need to switch back to code mode.. these current bugs suck bad.. I'm stuck in stupid "depressed" mode right now and nothing much code-wise comes out.

One of these days I'm gonna have to have a play with ResScan.. Half the time I have no clue what people are talkin about with it :-}

[quote="jedimark"] I'm stuck in stupid "depressed" mode right now and nothing much code-wise comes out.

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Do they have good psychiatrists down there?

jedimark wrote:I think some of this AHI stuff is specific to the latest mac build.. There was an attempt at fixing the DST bug, but it didn't get finished before my (seriously unintended) break from coding.

Unix fixed the time nonsense decades ago yet no one seems to learn that lesson.

It's so much fun trying to guess what things changed to DST automatically and when they did it and how wrong they got it. We have a phone system at work that gets it wrong twice a year and then someone fixes it up so it tends to be wrong 4 times a year. The data format used by xPAP machines seems to show they knew there was an issue and they weren't going to think anymore about it.

jedimark wrote:I think some of this AHI stuff is specific to the latest mac build.. There was an attempt at fixing the DST bug, but it didn't get finished before my (seriously unintended) break from coding.

Ugh.. I need to switch back to code mode.. these current bugs suck bad.. I'm stuck in stupid "depressed" mode right now and nothing much code-wise comes out.

One of these days I'm gonna have to have a play with ResScan.. Half the time I have no clue what people are talkin about with it :-}

Well, I tried switching to SleepyHead/Win and now the AHIs seem in parallel with ResScan, but the Sleep graph thinks I'm sleeping 14-18 hours a night!

So, for the time being, I have to choose between erroneous AHIs in Mac vs erroneous sleep times in the bar chart in Windows.

But I'll be patient.

Nate

jedimark wrote: Urk.. I've gotta make the graphs not squish the titles when they are resized.

This is an unfortunately side affect of having to write the entire GUI code for the graphs from scratch, due to a bug in Qt libraries. Fun. :/

Oh, you want the library functions to actually work? What a quaint idea.

To see you here again, good it is.

"Nonstandard" allergies are a real pain to get treated. There are lots of nutjobs out there that are convinced they're allergic to lots of things that they really aren't allergic to. They'll have an allergic reaction if you switch distilled water for what they think they're allergic to and "expose" them to it.

Unfortunately, the nut jobs make it difficult for the people who really do have an unusual allergy. It's really easy for the doctor to decide you're one of the nutjobs instead of one the people who really has an unusual allergy.

Even if you find a good doctor who believes you and is willing to work on it, he has a tough job. There are only solutions for the common allergy materials. He and you probably can't afford for him to go out and start checking on thousands of possible causes. Then, of course, the evil insurance companies aren't going to pay for any "experimental" allergy tests.

I had a good allergy doctor. There was something that gave me allergies when I went to visit my Dad several hundred miles away. The doctor admitted he couldn't help me because he didn't have the test samples for the area he lived in, and that I'd have to see a doctor there to figure that out. He also told me there are no "standard" allergins. Each group makes up its own stuff and one group's results mean nothing to another doctor.

Unless the doctor is something like a university researcher, they aren't really set up to do "custom" medical treatment for "custom" allergies.

If you want to get to the bottom of it, you're probably going to have to do your own experiments. Do your own testing to see if you can find something that reliably triggers a reaction. Maybe get someone to give you a "blind" test where you don't know whether you're being exposed to the real thing or not. Might be hard to do if it's something with a distinctive smell.

What does the DST bug look like? How does it manifest?

Breathe Jimbo wrote:What does the DST bug look like? How does it manifest?

For me, I get duplicated sessions out of sync by an hour, with sleep time doubled.

However, switching the "incorrect" session off restores normality.