divePAL Tech is now available!
- Tech diving mode is now available: Tech license gives you access to trimix, automatic deco planning, multi-gas dives, and more deco conservatism options (see below).
- Trimix gas support added: Users with a Tech license can now define any trimix gas for a tank (1-100% oxygen, 0-99% helium, 0-99% nitrogen).
- When analyzing dives, the nitrogen loading level is replaced by a combined "intert gas loading level".
- When viewing the detailed compartment breakdown bar graph in analysis mode, the relative contributions of helium and nitrogen in each compartment are shown by the light/dark sections of the bar. Lighter sections show helium's contribution, darker sections show nitrogen's contribution.
- Deco planning: Users with a tech license can now have divePAL automatically plan their ascent from their final depth. When selecting this mode, your dive will end at the depth of the last point you placed on the graph. From this point, divePAL will plan your ascent by following deco stops suggested by our deco algorithm, until you reach the surface. The automatic ascent is planned once you click the "Analyze" button, when in the graph editing mode the graph will simply change slightly to indicate that it will be automatically planning the ascent instead of assuming a straight ascent from the last point.
- Toggle a plan between automatic planning and manual planning using the button below the bottom-right corner of the graph when in graph editing mode.
- In the options menu, you may adjust how close to the deco ceiling divePAL will get before waiting until the ceiling increases (for example, allowing you to specify that you will do a 20ft deco stop at 22ft).
- Multi-gas dives: Users with a tech license can now enter more then one tank (each with a seperate gas) for their dive. This feature is currently still somewhat limited, tanks beyond the first are only used as part of the automatic ascent planning feature. Each gas has a separate "Max PPO2" setting (which will provide an MOD for that gas). This setting is used to determine when to use this gas during automatic ascent planning.
- During automatic ascent planning, divePAL will assume you are using the gas with the highest PPO2 that is below the selected safe level for that gas.
- You can see when these switches occur by checking the "Gas Mix" graph option on the "Technical" page of the graph options in the analysis view.
- There is currently not a way to manually define a gas switch, but this will be added in a future release.
- It is possible to define a different planned SAC for each tank (if, for example, you expect to be more active at some parts of the dive than others).
- Deco Conservatism Setting
- A new "Deco Conservatism Setting" is available in divePAL full and up.
- All full and nitrox users can select to use a more conservative or liberal deco setting (as well as the current default, which is the middle setting). See THIS POST for more info on our decompression algorithm
- Tech users have access to an additional setting, which uses the original constants defined by Buhlmann (and is the most liberal).
- This setting is saved with your log, so others analyzing the log will see the same NDT and deco information you did when you originally analyzed it. To change your default deco conservatism, change the setting in the Options menu.
- Added "Oceanlog" importers that support .dlg files exported from any Pelagic 2.x logbook/computer interface software: Oceanic Oceanlog, Aeris Computer Interface, Hollis Computer Interface are all included by name.
- Any of these will also support a .dlg file exported from another Pelagic computer interface software.
- Surface intervals, bottom times, and dive start times now use hour:minute (instead of hour:minute:second) format in most locations.
- Fixed some bugs with the two multi-line fields in the logbook summary (the detailed description and buddy fields).
- Fixed an exception error dialog when pressing "Search" rapidly while using the site selection menu in the logbook or log search forms.
- Fixed some bugs caused by automatic localization of internal-use strings: Caused problems when trying to send some imported logs to our server when using certain regional settings for Windows.
- Fixed a bug with the "Check for overlapping logs" function when submitting imported dives that caused it to sometimes not detect conflicting dives that should have been.
- Fixed several minor bugs that could cause the "Save Log" button to be enabled when there were no chagnes to save.
- Fixed some bugs with expanding/collapsing of logbook information categories that had little or no information in them.
- Fixed an exception when showing bar-graphs on dive computers that ended up not being visible.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a logbook entry to show the start date and time of the dive as the current date and time, and also make it so this information could not be edited.
- When creating a new log, the "By" line will be filled in with your username immediately.
- You can no longer analyze a dive from the logbook while your are preparing to save it for the first time.
- Updated the log search display to show 5 logs per page (down from 10), but two lines of information for each log.
- SAC is now shown on the dive summary panel. For manually entered dives, this is automatically calculated from the profile and final air pressure of the tank.
- Updated the images used for icons on the log searching display (some where washed out, the image for imported logs was also different from other locations).
- Only the "Max Depth" and "Dive Time" settings will be shown when editing a dive from the logbook (other settings that are shown here during dive planning can be edited elsewhere in the logbook.
- When accessing features not available to users who are not logged in (such as the logbook, and planning options not available to basic users), you will be prompted to log in.
- The selected tank(s) in the "Equipment" panel of the logbook now have a much nicer way of being entered and shown.
- The PPO2 analysis graph (nitrox or tech users only) now has a range of 0.00 ATM to 1.60 ATM (red line), instead of .60 ATM to 1.60 ATM (red line). Yellow line still represents 1.40 ATM.
- PPO2 is now represented by a solid line (of the same light-green color), instead of a dotted line.
- Basic users are no longer able to analyze dives that are part of a sequence (even as though they were not part of a sequence).
- Tech users can now set a gradient factor when planning dives.
- Tech users can now see Partial Pressure of Nitrogen and Partial Pressure of Helium
Installer: divepal_installer_r20120130.exe available HERE
You can purchase a Tech license HERE.
Let me know if you would like to become a beta tester.
Alberto (aka eDiver)
New Features
- Tech diving mode is now available: Tech license gives you access to trimix, automatic deco planning, multi-gas dives, and more deco conservatism options (see below).
- Trimix gas support added: Users with a Tech license can now define any trimix gas for a tank (1-100% oxygen, 0-99% helium, 0-99% nitrogen).
- When analyzing dives, the nitrogen loading level is replaced by a combined "intert gas loading level".
- When viewing the detailed compartment breakdown bar graph in analysis mode, the relative contributions of helium and nitrogen in each compartment are shown by the light/dark sections of the bar. Lighter sections show helium's contribution, darker sections show nitrogen's contribution.
- Deco planning: Users with a tech license can now have divePAL automatically plan their ascent from their final depth. When selecting this mode, your dive will end at the depth of the last point you placed on the graph. From this point, divePAL will plan your ascent by following deco stops suggested by our deco algorithm, until you reach the surface. The automatic ascent is planned once you click the "Analyze" button, when in the graph editing mode the graph will simply change slightly to indicate that it will be automatically planning the ascent instead of assuming a straight ascent from the last point.
- Toggle a plan between automatic planning and manual planning using the button below the bottom-right corner of the graph when in graph editing mode.
- In the options menu, you may adjust how close to the deco ceiling divePAL will get before waiting until the ceiling increases (for example, allowing you to specify that you will do a 20ft deco stop at 22ft).
- Multi-gas dives: Users with a tech license can now enter more then one tank (each with a seperate gas) for their dive. This feature is currently still somewhat limited, tanks beyond the first are only used as part of the automatic ascent planning feature. Each gas has a separate "Max PPO2" setting (which will provide an MOD for that gas). This setting is used to determine when to use this gas during automatic ascent planning.
- During automatic ascent planning, divePAL will assume you are using the gas with the highest PPO2 that is below the selected safe level for that gas.
- You can see when these switches occur by checking the "Gas Mix" graph option on the "Technical" page of the graph options in the analysis view.
- There is currently not a way to manually define a gas switch, but this will be added in a future release.
- It is possible to define a different planned SAC for each tank (if, for example, you expect to be more active at some parts of the dive than others).
- Deco Conservatism Setting
- A new "Deco Conservatism Setting" is available in divePAL full and up.
- All full and nitrox users can select to use a more conservative or liberal deco setting (as well as the current default, which is the middle setting). See THIS POST for more info on our decompression algorithm
- Tech users have access to an additional setting, which uses the original constants defined by Buhlmann (and is the most liberal).
- This setting is saved with your log, so others analyzing the log will see the same NDT and deco information you did when you originally analyzed it. To change your default deco conservatism, change the setting in the Options menu.
- Added "Oceanlog" importers that support .dlg files exported from any Pelagic 2.x logbook/computer interface software: Oceanic Oceanlog, Aeris Computer Interface, Hollis Computer Interface are all included by name.
- Any of these will also support a .dlg file exported from another Pelagic computer interface software.
Bug Fixes
- Surface intervals, bottom times, and dive start times now use hour:minute (instead of hour:minute:second) format in most locations.
- Fixed some bugs with the two multi-line fields in the logbook summary (the detailed description and buddy fields).
- Fixed an exception error dialog when pressing "Search" rapidly while using the site selection menu in the logbook or log search forms.
- Fixed some bugs caused by automatic localization of internal-use strings: Caused problems when trying to send some imported logs to our server when using certain regional settings for Windows.
- Fixed a bug with the "Check for overlapping logs" function when submitting imported dives that caused it to sometimes not detect conflicting dives that should have been.
- Fixed several minor bugs that could cause the "Save Log" button to be enabled when there were no chagnes to save.
- Fixed some bugs with expanding/collapsing of logbook information categories that had little or no information in them.
- Fixed an exception when showing bar-graphs on dive computers that ended up not being visible.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a logbook entry to show the start date and time of the dive as the current date and time, and also make it so this information could not be edited.
- When creating a new log, the "By" line will be filled in with your username immediately.
- You can no longer analyze a dive from the logbook while your are preparing to save it for the first time.
Misc
- Updated the log search display to show 5 logs per page (down from 10), but two lines of information for each log.
- SAC is now shown on the dive summary panel. For manually entered dives, this is automatically calculated from the profile and final air pressure of the tank.
- Updated the images used for icons on the log searching display (some where washed out, the image for imported logs was also different from other locations).
- Only the "Max Depth" and "Dive Time" settings will be shown when editing a dive from the logbook (other settings that are shown here during dive planning can be edited elsewhere in the logbook.
- When accessing features not available to users who are not logged in (such as the logbook, and planning options not available to basic users), you will be prompted to log in.
- The selected tank(s) in the "Equipment" panel of the logbook now have a much nicer way of being entered and shown.
- The PPO2 analysis graph (nitrox or tech users only) now has a range of 0.00 ATM to 1.60 ATM (red line), instead of .60 ATM to 1.60 ATM (red line). Yellow line still represents 1.40 ATM.
- PPO2 is now represented by a solid line (of the same light-green color), instead of a dotted line.
- Basic users are no longer able to analyze dives that are part of a sequence (even as though they were not part of a sequence).
- Tech users can now set a gradient factor when planning dives.
- Tech users can now see Partial Pressure of Nitrogen and Partial Pressure of Helium
Installer: divepal_installer_r20120130.exe available HERE
You can purchase a Tech license HERE.
Let me know if you would like to become a beta tester.
Alberto (aka eDiver)
