06-25-2017, 12:50 AM
How to hook CMS50I oximeter's finger-puylse sensor to laptop USB
The ("Uarte Bridge" "spO2 Assistant" software, I think) for my CMS50I oximeter seems to indicate one can feed pulse sensor transmissions directly into a computer, using that software, without using the wrist-worn data processor-recorder with its "dashboard" ( its opening screen which displays time, a beat-by-beat amplitude bar, a pulse waveform presentation and a PMI indicator).
Unable to scare up anything else I bought what I thought was a Mini B female to Type A male adapter to convert/adapt the finger-pulse sensor's male Mini B to a Type A male or female connector. But there is a very slight difference between the (narrower maximum) width of the female Mini B female opening and the male connector (seemingly a Mini B) on the sensor.
The directions for the CMS50I stress that one should not use other cables and the almost invisible mismatch may be a safety feature (or I got an inferior adapter).
Has anyone solved this problem or conclusively established that one cannot hook the sensor to the computer directly to display (on a larger scale) the pulse waveform in real time--as the software seems to indicate would be possible? Ideally one could record heart data (on the wrist-worn device, if not on the computer, too) while looking at the wave form on the computer screen when awake.
[TMI, maybe:There will likely be those who question why I want to do this. Fine. I can simply say it has been good to be able to show a thoughtful MD info that is irregular as well as to personally discover and modify patterns that are common to habits of diet, caffeine use, irregular night owl sleeping patterns, exercise intensity, medications, yada, yada. Thanks to Sleepy Head and so much intelligent (pattern sensitive) guidance from this Forum's moderators--and no thanks to a sleep MD--my RDI starting point as described in my Profile has improved to the point of having very frequent--even simultaneous--zeroes for AHI and max LL; these good results have come while flow limitations are horrific, even with little or infrequent Snore. I do not understand why there is such high flow resistance in light of my being able to continually exercise at a 5.7 MET level, having a BMI of 22.4 with a 15 inch neck.
Maybe its my Charcot Marie Tooth, if there is no other (say, a Arnold-Chiari) neural disorder, and consequences of my past ice-cream sins. I bordered on being obese for a few years-BMI nearly 30, some 40 years ago. An upcoming appointment with a hghly recommended neurologist may lead to answers for (mostly) earlier extremely long apneas: this after my very good neurologist, who diagnosed CMT nearly 20 years ago and who I last saw 7 years ago, retired 4 years ago and has not been available after my PCP's diagnosis of severe sleep apnea.]
Unable to scare up anything else I bought what I thought was a Mini B female to Type A male adapter to convert/adapt the finger-pulse sensor's male Mini B to a Type A male or female connector. But there is a very slight difference between the (narrower maximum) width of the female Mini B female opening and the male connector (seemingly a Mini B) on the sensor.
The directions for the CMS50I stress that one should not use other cables and the almost invisible mismatch may be a safety feature (or I got an inferior adapter).
Has anyone solved this problem or conclusively established that one cannot hook the sensor to the computer directly to display (on a larger scale) the pulse waveform in real time--as the software seems to indicate would be possible? Ideally one could record heart data (on the wrist-worn device, if not on the computer, too) while looking at the wave form on the computer screen when awake.
[TMI, maybe:There will likely be those who question why I want to do this. Fine. I can simply say it has been good to be able to show a thoughtful MD info that is irregular as well as to personally discover and modify patterns that are common to habits of diet, caffeine use, irregular night owl sleeping patterns, exercise intensity, medications, yada, yada. Thanks to Sleepy Head and so much intelligent (pattern sensitive) guidance from this Forum's moderators--and no thanks to a sleep MD--my RDI starting point as described in my Profile has improved to the point of having very frequent--even simultaneous--zeroes for AHI and max LL; these good results have come while flow limitations are horrific, even with little or infrequent Snore. I do not understand why there is such high flow resistance in light of my being able to continually exercise at a 5.7 MET level, having a BMI of 22.4 with a 15 inch neck.
Maybe its my Charcot Marie Tooth, if there is no other (say, a Arnold-Chiari) neural disorder, and consequences of my past ice-cream sins. I bordered on being obese for a few years-BMI nearly 30, some 40 years ago. An upcoming appointment with a hghly recommended neurologist may lead to answers for (mostly) earlier extremely long apneas: this after my very good neurologist, who diagnosed CMT nearly 20 years ago and who I last saw 7 years ago, retired 4 years ago and has not been available after my PCP's diagnosis of severe sleep apnea.]
I have no particular qualifications or expertise with respect to the apnea/cpap/sleep related content of my posts beyond my own user experiences and what I've learned from others on this site. Each of us bears the burden of evaluating the validity and applicability of what we read here before acting on it.
Of my 3 once-needed, helpful, and adjunctive devices I have listed, only the accelerometer remains operative (but now idle). My second CMS50I died, too, of old age and the so-so Dreem 2 needs head-positioning band repair--if, indeed, Dreem even supports use of it now.
Of my 3 once-needed, helpful, and adjunctive devices I have listed, only the accelerometer remains operative (but now idle). My second CMS50I died, too, of old age and the so-so Dreem 2 needs head-positioning band repair--if, indeed, Dreem even supports use of it now.
