<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/default.css"> <title>faq</title> </head> <body> <h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1> <a href="#supportmymachine"></a> <h3><a href="#supportmymachine">Why doesn't OSCAR support [insert obscure/new device] yet?</a></h3> <p><a href="#supportmymachine">Plenty of reasons.. Pick your favourite:</a></p> <list> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because the 5 people who own one can't supply enough data to see all possible event codes?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because it doesn't feature a flow waveform and would be boring?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because one unpaid developer can only hack, create, and maintain so many importers before they go insane?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because to get it right takes a really, really big number of developer man-hours that would be better spent on other parts of the program?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because the build quality perhaps is garbage and nobody should own one?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because nobody else is interested in helping hack the formats?</a></li> <li><a href="#supportmymachine">• Because I prefer hands on and rarely get to play with/hack on the hardware directly?</a></li> </list> <a href="#compliance"></a> <h3><a href="#compliance">Why doesn't OSCAR let me generate <i>compliance</i> reports?</a></h3> <p><a href="#compliance">Mainly, to avoid attracting the lawsuits that would inevitably come from offering this capability. Here are the primary reasons why I'm dead against it:</a></p> <list> <li><a href="#compliance">• It's far too easy to change the source code to fake compliance reports.</a></li> <li><a href="#compliance">• Do you like the idea of sharing the road with truck drivers with an untreated sleep disorder who faked compliance data?</a></li> <li><a href="#compliance">• Data Formats of CPAP machines in OSCAR had to be reverse engineered because manufacturers don't release documentation, and accuracy can't be guaranteed.</a></li> <li><a href="#compliance">• To do it would require closing the sourcecode and establishing a relationship with manufacturers who have proven they care very little about data access rights.</a></li> </list> <p><a href="#compliance">This stuff is also the reason I never bothered hacking CPAP data Checksums... If they were public knowledge, people could alter SD data card content, which would not be cool.</a></p> </body> </html>