How to e-mail SD card data ?

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How to e-mail SD card data ?

Post by aben » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:50 am

How is the best way to e-mail SD card data to the RT ? I am using Encore Basic, Win 7 64, Win Live Mail, PRS1 bipap auto biflex 750P and USB card reader. I want to send about 5-7 nights of data including graphs and compliance. When I open the drive I can see the p0, p1, and p2 files with the dates, then I hi-lite the files that I want to send, (there are 4 or five for each date), then select send to e-mail recipient. I don't know exactly what information is being sent. Is there a way to find out, and am I doing this the best way ?
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Re: How to e-mail SD card data ?

Post by khauser » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:54 am

I think you need to send the full image of the card ... if you pick and choose the RT probably won't be able to read it.

So I suggest you create a zip of the card. For me, the card shows up as drive E, so I zip everything in drive E to a file on my C drive, and send that.

It's probably not going to be all that big...

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Re: How to e-mail SD card data ?

Post by Pugsy » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:09 pm

I have never been able to figure out how to use EncoreBasic to import just the files and let Basic (or any Encore program for that matter) do the calculations and generate the reports. I doubt the RT will be able to use the SD card contents unless you include the SD card. Encore software looks for the SD card...there's no way to tell it to go to a folder with a bunch of files in it like we can do with SleepyHead.

If you want to send the entire SD card contents..just copy the contents to a new SD card and snail mail it.
Otherwise you can generate a report and save it as PDF and send it as an attachment to an email like you would anything else.

I don't think there is a way for the RT to generate a report without the physical SD card. I recently had a need to do just that with some files someone emailed me. I couldn't get it done without using a SD card. Now if your RT wanted to get a blank SD card and you sent the entire contents of your SD card (it will be huge though) it could be done that way. The SD card contents would need to go in entirety though. Everything needs to be a mirror image. There's machine information and stuff in other files and folders that is needed for Encore to generate a report. A report cannot be generate with just the P0 file folder contents which is where the actual data files are.

Ask the RT what they want...if they only want a summary of usage that is easily generated and saved as PDF and then emailed.
Otherwise I would make a copy of the SD card onto a new SD card and mail it via US Post Office or hand carry if you are close.

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Re: How to e-mail SD card data ?

Post by aben » Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:52 am

Many thanks to khauser and pugsy.
aben

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Re: How to e-mail SD card data ?

Post by archangle » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:03 am

I think it's been reported you can zip the whole card and unzip to an SD card on the other end for PRS1/Encore. I haven't actually tried it, though.

Good luck finding a RT on the other end willing to do this for you.

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