Quick Tour

Call kz script to execute Kenozooid commands, see User Interface for more.

Connect dive computer to a personal computer and backup its data (see also Dive Computer Support):

kz backup ostc /dev/ttyUSB0 backup-ostc-20110728.uddf
kz backup su /dev/ttyUSB0 backup-su-20110728.uddf

Above commands save data from OSTC dive computer and Sensus Ultra dive data logger to backup-ostc-20110728.uddf and backup-su-20110728.uddf files.

File compression is supported. Simply add .bz2 extension to a file name, for example:

kz backup ostc /dev/ttyUSB0 backup-ostc-20110728.uddf.bz2
kz backup su /dev/ttyUSB0 backup-su-20110728.uddf.bz2

List the dives from backup file (see also Dive Logbook):

$ kz dive list backup-ostc-20110728.uddf
backup-ostc-20110728.uddf:
    1:  --  2011-06-12 21:45     40.8m ( --- )     58:50     5.4°C
    2:  --  2011-06-19 12:26     58.8m ( --- )     48:40     6.2°C
    3:  --  2011-06-24 13:18     94.1m (26.1m)    107:20     5.1°C
    4:  --  2011-06-26 12:56     85.0m (24.4m)    104:42     5.5°C
    5:  --  2011-06-29 21:30     42.7m (20.0m)     57:29     6.2°C
    6:  --  2011-07-07 21:44     27.5m ( 8.4m)     60:38     7.0°C
    7:  --  2011-07-20 21:50     49.9m (19.6m)     65:42     5.7°C
    8:  --  2011-07-28 21:26     60.2m (20.9m)     64:08     5.7°C

Plot dive profiles (see Dive Data Plotting):

kz plot --info backup-ostc-20110728.uddf dives.pdf

Plot dive profiles of dives 2, 3, 4 and 5:

kz plot --info -k 2-5 backup-ostc-20110728.uddf dives.pdf
../_images/dive-2011-06-26.png

Dive profile plot of 4th dive from backup-ostc-20110728.uddf backup file