Zeo shutting down: export your data!

[woodinblack]

@tolerant

woodinblack, how exactly would I measure the voltage of the battery, whether or not it’s on charge? Do you mean with the case of the transmitter open or closed? Can I use the gold-coloured “things” at the bottom of the transmitter to measure the voltage remaining on it?

you need to measure the voltage at a point where it comes from the battery, either the terminals, or some point on the board where the power exists, so the transmitter would have to be open, unless you can run some leads outside of it.

[quote=“tolerant, post:376, topic:561”]
If not, can I use the points on the circuit board to where the battery wires are soldered to measure the voltage? As regards the 0.5A written on the charger, I don’t know what it could be referring to. A LiPo battery should not generally be charged at higher than capacity. Assuming the Zeo battery has a capacity of 50mAh, it could safely only take 50mA of current when charging.[/quote]

Yes, the points on the circuit board.

The 0.5A written on the charger is the maximum current output of the charger, before the voltage dips. So the charger can give any power up to that amount at the specified voltage.

The 50mAh on the battery doesn’t indicate how much current the battery can give or take, it indicates the actual capacity, so it could provide 50mA for an hour, or 100mA for 2 hours or 50mA for 10 hours. This is only a rough measurement as other factors are in play, but that is the basic idea.

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@wilsonintexas

1: the zeo machine says that all of teh data is 0. zq, total z (which is fine I was awake) will not display any data or graph, it says no data to display. I was awake the whole time just tryingto gather data.

From my initial working on the viewer (and I guess you are using 0.2.6b?) it displays data from the epoch preceding the onset of sleep. So if you don’t sleep it won’t show you anything. Try going to sleep and seeing it. This program is very flakey though, so don’t hold your breath too much!

@wilsonintexas

2: I have sleep apnea and upload my data into a program named sleepyhead. It is expecting a csv file. When I try to upload the file from the viewer it kills sleepyhead.
I have read through all of this 19 pages of post, and there are several ways of viewing the data.

There are a few sleephead users on this forum, I believe that sleepyhead used to load csv files from zeoviewer but now doesn’t, so maybe an older version would work but that is just second hand info.
Obviously whatever you gave it was not what it was expecting if it crashed.

@wilsonintexas

Not sure what you mean by
what is the best way to get a csv file that matches the file from zeo?

the zeo doesn’t produce any csv files.

My application exports CSVs, in a very similar format as the original Java viewer, if that is what you need, but again, if it crashes sleephead in that format it won’t make much difference.

Did you backup your data before you updated? My application can deal with encrypted or unencrypted, or both in the same file.