Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

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Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

Post by Papit » Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:22 pm

CPAP Wireless SD Card Data-transfer to ResScan and SleepyHead - Sep 29, 2015 (Rev. 2/16)
For us non-techies. If you check your sleep data and detailed graphs daily on ResScan or SleepyHead, then this is for you. I now leave a new WiFi SD card in my xPAP machine and it wirelessly sends sleep data to my computer for input to ResScan and SleepyHead software. The special SD card does not need to be moved from xPAP to the computer. It stays in my xPAP machine.

Here's a list of easy detailed instructions written mainly for those new to computers and less techie users. They are based largely on procedures from TNET Sleep Apnea Information at https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/flashpap that I expanded upon or modified. Thanks go to Krelvin for getting me started and others for adding to my understanding. Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome by post or pm.

Setup: I use a ResMed AirCurve 10 machine with Windows 10. I previously used it with Windows 7. I have also used a ResMed S9 machine (VPAP Adapt) with Windows 7. Instructions may need to be adapted for other equipment and software.

A. Preparing the new Wireless SD card
1. Insert in your computer card reader a Toshiba FlashAir III W03 16GB Wireless SD Memory Card (PFW016U-1CCW) available from Amazon and eBay. If available, Toshiba FlashAir III W03 8GB Wireless SD Memory Card is good. Both are more than adequate and both are priced about $25.
2. Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View and select “Show hidden files, folders . . .” Click Apply and OK.
3. Go to and open Computer (My Computer), select the SD’s card drive and open it.
4. Open SD_WLAN, then open the CONFIG file using Notepad.
5. Change APPMODE value from 4 to 5 and change APPNETWORKKEY value from ******** to your LAN Network Security Key (a.k.a SSID Security Key/password a.k.a. your ISP Network Key) provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
6. Add the following line items to the column: APPNAME=SLEEPDATA, APPSSID=NNNNN, LOCK=1, DNSMODE=1, APPAUTOTIME=0, UPLOAD=1, NOISE_CANCEL=2.
7. Change APPSSID value from NNNNN to your home WiFi Network’s Name. Click File and Save. Click File again and Exit.
8. Safely remove the SD card as follows: Open Computer, right click the SD’s card drive, select Eject and remove the card.
9. Insert the SD card in your xPAP machine. If a message appears, “Invalid SD card, erase SD card data? Yes/No,?” select Yes and press the enter button.
10. Get a full night’s sleep data on the new card and proceed with the next step tomorrow. Alternatively, if you want to proceed right now: Open ResScan, put your mask on and operate your xPAP machine for at least 10 minutes. Or, open SleepyHead and click File, Preferences and Import tab. Note the “Ignore Short Sessions” Minutes on the right. Once your xPAP machine resets, put your mask on and operate your xPAP machine for at least the number of Short Sessions Minutes to record breathing test data.
11. Leave the FlashAir SD card in your xPAP machine from now on. If you inadvertently remove it or turn power off, you may need to reinitialize the card as discussed in Part E below.

B. Using FlashPAP to transfer data from xPAP/FlashAir SD to your computer
1. Insert a new regular high speed (45MB/s or faster) SD or xD memory card (1GB is sufficient) in your computer card reader. If using an old card, open Computer, right click on the card’s drive, select Format, and click Start and OK to remove any extraneous data. (Save your old SD card with its stored sleep data.)
2. Download and install JAVA from http://java.com/en/ . Then download and install FlashPAP from http://www.cognitial.com/flashpap/flashpap.htm Drag and drop FlashPAP.jar to your desktop or otherwise create a desktop shortcut.
3. Open FlashPAP. Click […] next to “Profile/User Name,” click “New Profile,” type in “SLEEPDATA” and click OK. Use the down arrow and select your “xPAP Machine.” Select ResMed AirSense 10 for either the AirSense 10 or AirCurve 10. To automatically detect and fill in the card’s “IP Address,” click […] and select “Scan Network”. Then click “Scan network for FlashAir devices.” After the card is detected click “Use selected FlashAir.”
4. Click […] for Destination Folder, select the Step 1 SD or xD card’s drive and click Save.
5. Click […] for “Exit and run Sleep Tracking Software”. Click “Desktop,” scroll to and click either the ResScan or SleepyHead shortcut depending on which you use most.
6. Typical daily operation: Open FlashPAP and click “Scan FlashAir SD card”. Today’s date appears in “Dates found on card”. Select the date and click “Copy xPAP data for selected date(s)”. Click “Exit and run Sleep Tracking Software” to automatically open ResScan or SleepyHead per your selection in Step 5 above.

C. Using ResScan and SleepyHead software
1. In ResScan, select patient name. Click Download data and Detailed Graphs to see graphs of the wirelessly transferred sleep data.
2. In SleepyHead, select user name. Click Import, Yes and Daily to see detailed graphs of the wirelessly transferred sleep data.
(If necessary, click Import, Specify, Computer and double-click OS (C). Scroll down to select the SD or xD memory card drive and click Choose.) If other data already exists in SleepyHead for today’s date and you want to see detailed graphs of your test data by itself, use the select/deselect feature in the lower left under Cpap Sessions.

Once having completed the above ABC Setup,
BEGIN HERE FOR TYPICAL DAILY OPERATION

D. Daily Operation

1. Open FlashPAP and click Scan FlashAir SD card.
2. Select the Date(s) found on card and click Copy xPAP data for selected date(s).
3. Click Exit and run Sleep Tracking Software. Rescan or SleepyHead opens ready for normal operation.

E. Reinitializing the FlashAir SD card when necessary

1. If power is turned off or if you remove the FlashAir card from your xPAP machine or there is a power loss, the card may need to be reinitialized. Download, install and run the FlashAir Tool from http://support.toshiba.com/support/view ... Id=4006103
2. Follow the on-screen prompts to Initialize the card. When instructed, safely remove the SD card as follows: Open Computer, right click the SD’s card drive, select Eject and remove the card (multiple times if prompted). When you see "Initialize succeeded,” click OK, leave the card in the card reader and close the FlashAirTool. Perform Part A steps above. Sometimes the card gets initialized properly even though “Initialize succeeded” is not displayed.

F. Restore “hidden files”
1. Return to Control Panel, Folder Options, View and select “Don’t show hidden files, folders . . .” Click Apply and OK.

(*) Notes:
1. Save your old SD card with its stored sleep data.
2. Save all of the above downloads in your Downloads folder for future ready access.
3. If you need to take an SD card in for your sleep doctor to review, insert a standard SD card that came with your machine into it and allow its internally stored sleep data to be written to the card. (You may then need to reinitialize your FlashAir card.) Alternatively, you can copy the DATALOG and SETTINGS files from the SD card in your computer to your desktop and then to your ResMed SD card.
4. When/if you remove the FlashAir card or if power to your xPAP machine is turned off or interrupted, the card may need to be reinitialized as covered in Part E.
5. In some machines, if your FlashAir card occasionally loses WiFi contact with your computer, ejecting but not removing it and then reinserting it may reestablish its connection.

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Re: Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

Post by Sir NoddinOff » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:29 am

Thanks Papit for the clear instructions.

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Re: Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

Post by SleepyCarey » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:37 pm

Wow, this is really awesome, Papit! Thank you! I will try this! Just ordered the 8GB FlashAir III card from Amazon.

Question - in section B (steps 1 & 4), am I right in assuming I can save to my computer in lieu of an SD card?

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Re: Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

Post by Papit » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:52 pm

SleepyCarey wrote:Wow, this is really awesome, Papit! Thank you! I will try this! Just ordered the 8MB FlashAir III card from Amazon.

Question - in section B (steps 1 & 4), am I right in assuming I can save to my computer in lieu of an SD card?

Hi SleepyCarey.

You would be right that you could save the transferred sleepdata to a file set up on your computer (instead of to a card) only if you were going to use SleepyHead. See " Wireless SD Card Data-transfer to SleepyHead (4:02pm 8-14-15) http://tiny.cc/0rty1x " in my signature block. Your idea is exactly what that instruction set is for.

But if you use ResScan, sleepdata transferred to a computer file, won't work. But it will work if the sleep data is transferred to an XD or SD card or a thumb drive inserted in your computer.

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Post by Pugsy » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:25 pm

Papit wrote:But if you use ResScan, transferred sleepdata to a computer file, instead of to a storage card, won't work. I don't understand why, but I've tried more than once without success. Maybe someone else can explain that?
Only explanation I can think of is the way ResScan is written it looks for a very specific data source and there's no way for us to tell it to not look for a SD card somewhere. We don't have any way that I could ever find to redirect the download to someplace else.

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Re: Wireless SD Card Data-transfer for ResScan / SH

Post by Papit » Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:34 am

SleepyCarey wrote:Wow, this is really awesome, Papit! Thank you! I will try this! Just ordered the 8GB FlashAir III card from Amazon.
You'll probably also want to get yourself a high speed SD or XD card for quicker action in writing the transferred sleep data to it.

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Post by Jay Aitchsee » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:54 am

Pugsy wrote:
Papit wrote:But if you use ResScan, transferred sleepdata to a computer file, instead of to a storage card, won't work. I don't understand why, but I've tried more than once without success. Maybe someone else can explain that?
Only explanation I can think of is the way ResScan is written it looks for a very specific data source and there's no way for us to tell it to not look for a SD card somewhere. We don't have any way that I could ever find to redirect the download to someplace else.
Have either of you tried the ResScan "Import" function rather than "Download"?

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Post by Pugsy » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:19 am

Jay Aitchsee wrote: Have either of you tried the ResScan "Import" function rather than "Download"?
The import function that I find pertains to patient lists.
Not importing of data.
At least nothing I can find in the import function because all I can see is patient list and do I want to overwrite the patine list.

Is there a different import somewhere?

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Post by Jay Aitchsee » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:14 am

Yes, you are correct, Pugsy.

The ResScan import function will import a patient file, but not data from the SD card.

However, it does import a complete file including all the detailed and high resolution data.
The patient files in Windows Vista and above, are located at C:\Users\Public\Documents\ResMed\ResScan3\Patients

To test this, I just copied my personal patient file folder to desktop, changed the name to be safe and imported it back into the ResScan Patients Examples (to be safe) Folder. It was all there, several years of data, and it didn't take long. It does create a new file with the name of the copied folder. (To import, it's file/import/navigate to the desired location in the "import from" box and select the folder/select "import to" and select the location, Default or Examples/then Import)

This would be a good way to share data with a Doctor if it was no longer available on the SD card, but unfortunately, it doesn't help with the transfer from a wifi card.

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Post by magus » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:42 am

Does this SD card necessarily have to be a Toshiba Flashair - or would any decently high speed 16 gig card do the job?

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Post by Papit » Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:05 pm

magus wrote:Does this SD card necessarily have to be a Toshiba Flashair - or would any decently high speed 16 gig card do the job?
Nope. Other brands have been used as well. I'm personally not sure of differences, though, in the setup if any. It might impact the instruction set I have been using. I like the Toshiba brand and would tend to stick with their card. Anyone care to jump in here about using other cards?

Btw, even an 8 gig size card I use is overkill for this application.

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Post by Krelvin » Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:55 am

magus wrote:Does this SD card necessarily have to be a Toshiba Flashair - or would any decently high speed 16 gig card do the job?
The apps that I have listed on my resource pages say what they support. Last I checked, they only support the flashair cards.

Other cards use different protocols.

Unless you are writing your own software you should use what the existing apps recommend they support.
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Post by sleepwiggler » Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:07 am

I have the Aircurve 10 but it is not listed as supported by by Flashapp. If I choose Airsense10 will it work?

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Post by Okie bipap » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:00 pm

Flashpap will work for the Air Curve 10 if you select the Air Sense 10 section on the drop-down menu. That is what I did, and it works just fine.

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Post by sleepwiggler » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:40 pm

Okie bipap wrote:Flashpap will work for the Air Curve 10 if you select the Air Sense 10 section on the drop-down menu. That is what I did, and it works just fine.
Thanks that's what I did.

Now one last question if my dme or doctor wants me to bring my card in how do I get the data back to the original card?

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