Sleepyhead with Masimo Radical 7 Oximeter

[cbr1]

Hello.   I'm 2 months in to CPAP therapy using a Dreamstation machine w/ auto titration.

Just getting into the Sleepdata software.

I'd like to use my oximeter, a hospital-grade Masimo Radical 7 with the docking station that provides for serial output of data (one second sample rate), in conjunction with the Sleepyhead software. I'd like to be able to import the oximetry data into Sleepyhead.

The Masimo outputs data in a text (.txt) file ASCII format through an RS232 connection which I can capture with a computer -- I've done this many times before to run through my own program to analyze the 02 sat data. It looks like Sleepyhead can import oximetry data from a .dat file so it seems that I should be able to convert the original Masimo text file to a .dat file and then import data off the .dat file into Sleepyhead.

However, I'm not sure if data records would need to be reconfigured (e.g., the Masimo text file contains time, O2 sat, pulse, alarm flags, etc.,).

Anybody have any idea if and how I would go about using the Masimo data file to feed Sleepyhead relevant oximetry data?

ps I've tried search function to no avail

[jaswilliams]

Sleepyhead works with spo2 files which are a similar type of file with 1second granularity etc.. but I don’t know if the columns are the same you could prob use excel as a converter

[bsmorgan]

I posted a similar request in this forum titled:

Thread-SleepyHead-and-Masimo-MightySat-Bluetooth-Compatible

I don't believe spo2 files are ASCII. If someone can post (or point to) a description of the BINARY format, I'm willing to try and write a converter.

A better use of my programming skills might be to (help) write a .csv importer for SleepyHead. I'd be willing to give that a shot if I can get some help with setting up a build environment and some guidance so that what I develop can be included in the official source repository.