OSCAR mobile app

[AW333]

Dec3169, good luck with your experiment, I am curious about how you deciphered the data file format for your CPAP machine. The ResPlus uses a file format of vhth and Oscar currently does not support it apparently. Any ideas?

[Gideon]

What I will say is that OSCAR is always looking for Volunteers, if interested PM me. "Gideon" if interested.

The OSCAR team has discussed Phone Apps in the past. All I will say here is the task is not trivial.

App developers are welcome.

[withtao]

App developers are welcome.

I posted my thoughts on the OSCAR rewrite thread today.  I've developed for Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, using Xamarin, Go and B4X with backend using TCP/IP, HTTP/Rest, Java Jetty.

Tablet/Phablet devices are intriguing, but phones not so much. IMHO.  A proof of concept that addresses the needs would be pretty easy. Mocked up data and user interfaces vs actual OSCAR port.

BTW, there's been mention of SQLite. It can't be used in a multi-user/multi-threaded environment.  Great for a DB on a small device like a phone, not on a server.

Thanks,

Dave

[TonyVivaldi52]

There is an alternative - SleepHQ will work on any device with a browser, including phones and tablets. The graphics are somewhat like Oscar, and you have the ability to share your data - the person reviewing it is able to zoom in and pan around, which is a big advantage. The disadvantage is that you need to upload your data to the server, which many people see as a problem. SleepHQ is not as complete or sophisticated as Oscar, but it's a pretty good alternative and does work on a wide variety of devices.

[withtao]

There is an alternative - SleepHQ 

I'm familiar with sleepHQ. Had loaded data into it back in September when I was getting ready for my Air Sense 10 replacement.  Around the same time I discovered apneaboard and OSCAR, then I stopped using sleepHQ. I saw a lot of  features in the sleepHQ app that required the Pro upgrade, not interested.

apneaboard (AB) provides an open user community with expert advice.  OSCAR is very customizable (order of charts, size of charts), supports export of data to CSV, supports my oximeter, doesn't require internet connection (can be used home and away using SDcard). The biggest thing I like about OSCAR is that I can visualize the most important CPAP graphs as well as oximeter graphs without scrolling.

[macrawford]

It sure seems that there is a great deal of interest in a mobile app for OSCAR.  food for thought - not all of the Oscar data has to appear on one screen at the same time.  The data could be viewed on multiple screen panels, one at a time, for each of the categories of info displayed, i.e. one chart per screen with scrolling of statistics at the bottom of the screen. Other apps do this well quite successfully - think health data apps.   It would also be nice if the app would allow  upload of data from an SD card via a reader to the OSCAR mobile app.   I have viewed and previously used SleepHQ but also see the limitations with that app as well.  I appreciate the effort it takes to convert raw CPAP data into readable statistics.  Anyway, thanks for the OSCAR app that we have today.

[staceyburke]

You can already use your Iphone.  All you have to do is attach your charts to a post and view them at the Dr. office if needed.   You can put as many days, zoom screenshots as you need.  After a while you can delete the  attachments to get more room to show recent nights'
.

[SuperSleeper]

While I understand the desire and concern over developing a mobile app, the truth is that we have no mobile app developers who are gifted in that area of programming.   Taking the OSCAR application into the world of compact mobile devices is a completely different animal than displaying pertinent data & charts on a large-screen desktop.  For an OSCAR mobile app, there's numerous problems that would have to be overcome first and foremost.

If there are any mobile app developers who would like to tackle this problem head-on, please let us know.   So far, there have been no qualified, skilled mobile app developers who are willing to spend the time and effort for this task.  And by "qualified" and "skilled", I mean someone who is able to bring the project from concept to fruition, including all the intermediate steps required... so far, all we've gotten is people with "ideas", but no concept on how to do anything about it.