[PLUG] SD card with wifi

[Patrick J. Timlick]

You might consider my solution to the very same problem, given to me by my
sleep doctor: "Don't check your numbers every day, it will drive you
crazy".  -- Pat

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> John,
> I do not want to discourage your efforts to raise the technology level
> of this system, but suppose you schlep the laptop to the CPAP machine,
> so you are less likely to forget to put the card back in the machine.
> Crude but maybe effective.
>
> I offer this idea because I know squat about wireless cards, so cannot
> answer your original question.
>
> -Denis
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:09:07 -0700
> > Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
> >
> >>Get a second SD card and put it into the machine right when you take
> >>the other one out?
> >
> > The machine looks for a special file that it puts on the card, and
> > which is updated every day that data is written to the card. If the
> > file is not there or is out of date the machine won't write more data
> > to the card until it formats the card, which wipes out all data and
> > puts a fresh special file on the card. And it waits 24 hours after
> > formatting the card, so you always lose a day's data when you change
> > cards. Also, the standard cards which come with the machine are 2 GB,
> > but it takes the machine nearly ten minutes to format it. Did I mention
> > that this machine is really stupid? It's also pig slow.
> >
> > If and when I buy the Toshiba, when I put it into the machine it will
> > insist on formatting it. This is concern #1; if formatting the card
> > wipes out the wifi ability, then it will be impossible to use the
> > Toshiba card and I can stop now. However, googling turned up a couple
> > comments that this doesn't happen with the latest versions of the card.
> >
> > Bear in mind that the consumer is not supposed to be viewing the data.
> > Only a physician or specially anointed respiratory therapist is deemed
> > to be intelligent enough to understand it. Therefore, the only reason
> > there is a card is so I can take it to such a person and kneel before
> > them while they use proprietary software from the manufacturer to view
> > the data and make adjustments to the therapy by modifying the card.
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