NiceSilverBison1316 is correct. Sleepyhead software I believe is geared toward apnea patients. Idk what kind of machine you have, but I just got my first one yesterday. Resmed Air10 I believe and they have an app you can install on your phone that receives all the data from the machine each morning and gives you a score of how well you slept/did with your machine each night. Probably not as in depth as sleepyhead but useful nonetheless. It's called MyAir. Sorry for the incorrect info at first.
That's the same machine I have and yes, they have a website which you join, which has information and receives daily info from your machine. Works really well, but as you say, is not complete. Go to You register there and confirm registration via email and make sure your unit connects to the internet and their site.
I think I remember it as connecting to your bluetooth on a normal router or the bluetooth on at least one of your computers/devices. I found it very simple, which is why I don't remember the exact details. From then on you get a daily graphic report on the last night's sleep and CPAP usuage. The categories of info collected are: Usage hours, Mask seal, Events, Mask on/off, myAir score (compilation of the earlier 'scores'. I believe it is aimed at your Compliance Quotien rather than medical info. BTW: In reading their info blogs, most, if not all, eventually say that to get this information see your Sleep Doctor. Good for hardware info and vocab, but not on medical.
Thanks for the information. Have completed the setup and been using the system for several days/nights. I am fairly flummoxed by all the acronyms but will work through them.
Maybe when I understand what all the strips are supposed to be tracking I'll understand the benefits of this app. However, at this point I feel it's only use is to take the card to my Dr and hope he understands. Is/are there any particular strips which are primary tell-tails or markers which would either tell me all is good or that a call to the Dr.
Contents. Common Questions Why can't SleepyHead find the data on my SD card? You need to point the import file dialog at the drive letter or root directory of the SD card, not any folder it contains.
This is because SleepyHead uses these folders (and the files that aren't shown in the dialog) as part of the fingerprint to detect what machine data is on the card. Hardware Support What machines does SleepyHead support? Please see this list of. Can SleepyHead be made to support my xyz machine? I'd love to support a lot more hardware, but that doesn't make it an easy task to accomplish.
It comes down to availability of information on data formats, and data sets made available to the author. Machines with older SmartCards instead of SD cards are not very practical or easy to support. This includes ResMed S8 and RemStar M-Series machines. How to Backup ResMed S9 Data under Mac OS X? What Is the Easiest Way to Backup Data under Mac OS X?
To save all waveform data, you must backup at least once a week. The easiest way is to create a backup folder and then create a new subfolder, at least once a week, into which all the contents of the SD card are copied. You can include the date of each backup in the name of the subfolder for easy identification of each backup. The main drawback of this approach is the large number of separate backups in separate subfolders over time. If you need to reimport all the backups into SleepyHead, it may be tedious to do so from a large number of separate subfolders. This drawback is a result of ResMed's decision to purge detailed waveform data from the SD card automatically after seven days and is not the fault of SleepyHead. Remember to return the SD card to your CPAP machine after you finish updating the backup.
Can I Merge All Data into a Single Backup Folder under Mac OS X? Yes, but as a practical matter you must be running Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). The following assumes that Lion is the operating system on your Mac.
These instructions will not work if you are still using Snow Leopard or earlier versions of Mac OS X. As a preliminary matter, the merge process involves the merging of two sets of data on the SD card: (a) the DATALOG folder; and (b) the 'top-level files' consisting of Identification.crc, Identification.tgt, STR.crc, and STR.edf. The instructions are essentially the same for both, but the DATALOG folder is the more crucial and unwieldy of the two and is discussed first.
It is important to understand how not to attempt to merge the data on the SD card (the 'new' data) with the data in the existing backup. You cannot merge data by dragging and dropping, or copying and pasting, the DATALOG folder from the SD card onto the DATALOG folder in the backup. That would only put a copy of the DATALOG folder on the SD card inside the DATALOG folder in the backup and not merge data.
Similarly, you cannot merge data by dragging and dropping, or copying and pasting, the DATALOG folder from the SD card into the backup folder that contains the DATALOG folder. If you do so, you will see a warning asking whether you wish to Stop, Keep Newer, or Replace All (Figure 1).
If you choose Replace All, this will delete the existing backup DATALOG folder and substitute in its place the DATALOG folder on the SD card. For example, if the SD card has 250 files in DATALOG and the backup has 5000 files in DATALOG, choosing Replace All will substitute the 250 files for the 5000 files and thereby cause enormous data loss.
The option to Keep Newer should work, but Lion users have reported problems with duplicate files being created within the destination folder. (This reported problem with Keep Newer may be fixed in a future version of Lion.) Since neither the loss of data nor creation of duplicate files would be desirable, you should choose Stop and not attempt to merge by copying and pasting, or dragging and dropping, the entire DATALOG folder on the SD card if you are presented with the warning in Figure 1 above. The correct way to merge the DATALOG folders is to open the DATALOG folder on the SD card, select and copy all the individual files in that folder (not the folder itself), and paste those individual files onto the DATALOG folder in the backup.
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(You can also drag and drop these new files onto the existing DATALOG folder, but this alternative poses some risk of placing the files in the wrong place.) When you do so, you will be presented with the warning in Figure 2 below. Check the 'Apply to All' box and choose Replace. This method keeps all the unique files in the existing backup, copies all the unique files on the SD card into the backup, and harmlessly replaces the duplicates. The end result is to merge the two DATALOG folders. After merging the DATALOG folders, the final step is to merge the four top-level files from the SD card into the backup. Select and copy the four top-level files on the SD card and paste them into the backup folder containing the older files with the same names. When you do so, you will be presented with a warning message either of the format in Figure 2 above or of the format in Figure 3 below.
It is unclear why Lion sometimes uses the format in Figure 2 and other times the format in Figure 3. However, regardless of whether the other options are Skip or Keep Both Files, check 'Apply to All' and choose Replace. This will ensure that the backup has the most current versions of these top-level files. Caveat: ResMed has limited the retention of information relating to Minimum Pressure, CPAP Mode, and EPR settings in the STR.edf file to the most recent 365 days. Therefore, the merging procedures discussed above will retain only 365 days worth of those types of data. Remember to return the SD card to your CPAP machine after you finish updating the backup. Can I Use Automator to Merge All Data into a Single Backup Folder under Mac OS X?
Mac OS X is a powerful, UNIX-like operating system with a friendly graphical user interface. Users who feel comfortable with the command line have available to them all the scripting power of a UNIX system and the friendlier but still powerful capabilities of AppleScript.
However, these scripting tools are typically used by power users with more technical abilities than the average CPAP user. Fortunately, for the rest of us, Apple has provided a friendly, easy-to-use, and yet powerful automation tool called Automator. No programming or scripting skills are required to use Automator, which makes it an ideal tool for the average CPAP user to automate the routine task of merging new data from the SD card into a backup under Mac OS X. It is beyond the scope of this article to explain all the capabilities of Automator or to describe all the different ways that Automator can be used to merge data into a single backup folder. The following discussion describes one easy way that Automator can be used for this purpose.
In short, the example below shows how to create a simple, step-by-step workflow by dragging building blocks called 'actions' from the left side of the Automator window to the right side in order to assemble a linear workflow, shown collapsed in Figure 4 below. The workflow on the right side in Figure 4 is an example of an Automator application that can automate the periodic merging of new ResMed S9 data from the SD card into a backup. To create this workflow, start Automator in the Applications folder and, at the opening screen, choose Application as the type for your document. Application is not the only type that can be used, but it is the type used in this example for simplicity. This workflow assumes that the SD card has been mounted manually on your Mac computer.
You may confirm that the SD card is mounted by looking for the 'No Name' disk icon in the Devices section of the Sidebar of any Finder window, as shown in Figure 5 below. This workflow assumes that the backup is maintained on a network drive to protect the backup data from any failure of the hard drive of the Mac computer on which you are using SleepyHead. If the backup is not on a network drive, or if you intend to mount the network drive manually rather than automatically, you may omit the first two actions of the workflow.
Depending on your configuration, it may be necessary to take other steps to ensure that the backup drive is available before this workflow is run. The first action in the workflow is Get Specified Servers, shown expanded in Figure 6 below.
It is beyond the scope of this FAQ to explain all the nuances of identifying the server (i.e. Network hard drive) on which the backup can be maintained if that is what you choose to do. Check Apple networking documentation or google something like 'Get Specified Servers action' for additional instructions.
Depending on your network setup, you may, for example, need to specify the username and password used to connect to the backup drive. The person who set up your network in the first place or currently maintains it may be a good source for the necessary server information. The server specified in Get Specified Servers must be the backup folder that contains the DATALOG folder and the top-level files at the same level as the DATALOG folder, an example of which is shown in Figure 7 below. The backup folder may be in a different location and have a different name. In this example, it is necessary to specify the server information for the 'ResMed S9 Data' folder.
This basic information is available in the Get Info window, which may be opened in several ways. (The most straightforward is to select this folder in the Finder and enter Command-I on your keyboard.) The Get Info window and the relevant server information are shown for this folder in Figure 8 below. The highlighted server information from Figure 8 is entered in Get Specified Servers after clicking on the Add button shown in Figure 6 above. (After the entire workflow is completed and saved, the server information may not be visible in Get Specified Servers for security reasons.) Depending on your configuration, it may be necessary to specify the username and password used to access the backup drive. (See discussion under Figure 6 above.) The next action after Get Specified Servers is Connect to Servers, shown in Figure 9 below. Connect to Servers is a simple action that uses the server information received from the prior action in the workflow to connect to the specified backup folder.
After the backup folder is mounted and ready to receive new data from the SD card, it is necessary to fetch the data from the SD card. In this example, the data are fetched and processed in two steps: first the top-level files, then the files in the DATALOG folder.
The Get Specified Finder Items action is used to fetch the top-level files from the SD card. Select Add, navigate to the SD card, and select all four top-level files (but not the DATALOG folder at this point), as shown in Figure 10 below. The box to 'Ignore this action's input' is checked in Figure 10 because otherwise the Get Specified Finder Items action would receive the server information used by the prior two actions in the workflow. Since that server information has already served its purpose of mounting the backup folder and is not needed by subsequent actions in the workflow, checking the box to 'ignore this action's input' ignores the server information and allows the user to provide the current action with the names of the top-level files to be fetched at this stage in the workflow. After the top-level files are added to Get Specified Finder Items, the next step is to merge these files into the backup folder.
This is done by adding the action to Copy Finder Items. In this example, Copy Finder Items is configured to copy the top-level files (received from the prior action) to the backup folder and the box is checked for 'Replacing existing files,' as shown in Figure 11 below. This completes the merging of the newest top-level files into the backup folder. Caveat: ResMed has limited the retention of information relating to Minimum Pressure, CPAP Mode, and EPR settings in the STR.edf file to the most recent 365 days. Therefore, the automation procedure discussed above will retain only 365 days worth of those types of data. After the top-level files are processed, it is still necessary to process the files in the DATALOG folder on the SD card. This is started by adding another instance of Get Specified Finder Items, this time navigating to and selecting the DATALOG folder on the SD card and again checking the box for 'Replacing existing files,' as shown in Figure 12 below.
The box to 'Ignore this action's input' is checked in Figure 12 so that the new instance of Get Specified Finder Items does not receive the top-level files from the prior action, but instead starts fresh with the DATALOG folder on the SD card. Since we want to merge the contents of the DATALOG folder on the SD card and not that folder itself (see ), the next action added to the workflow is Get Folder Contents, as shown in Figure 13 below. This action gets the individual files in the DATALOG folder on the SD card. The box to 'Repeat for each subfolder found' is not checked because the DATALOG folder has no subfolders.
The next step is to merge the individual files in the DATALOG folder on the SD card into the backup folder. This is done by adding another instance of the action to Copy Finder Items, configured to copy the individual files (received from the prior action) into the backup folder, with the box checked for 'Replacing existing files,' as shown in Figure 14 below.
This completes the merging of the the contents of the DATALOG folder on the SD card into the backup folder. Since it may take significant time to complete the merging of new data into the backup folder, especially if the backup is maintained on a network drive and antivirus software is active, it is helpful to be notified when the entire process is complete. This can be done in more than one way. In this example, the notification is given by having the default system voice announce that 'Update ResMed S 9 Backup has finished executing.' This is done by adding the Run Shell Script action with the 'say' command shown in Figure 15 below.
(You may, of course, use any other announcement you prefer.) Experiment with phonetic spelling, spaces, and other system voices to improve the pronunciation. (The system voices are located on the 'Text to Speech' tab of the Speech section of System Preferences. Additional voices - the author is partial to Fiona - may be downloaded.) Figure 15.
If the notification seems to be spoken too soon after the application is started, something may have gone wrong, warranting investigation. The Run Shell Script action completes this example workflow.
Click on File - Save. And save the application on the Desktop, in the Applications folder, or anywhere else you prefer. (In this example, the application was saved with the name 'Update ResMed S9 Backup Data,' but any other available name may be used.) This Automator application can then be run at any time, after mounting the SD card, by double-clicking on the application. It is convenient to run this application from the AppleScript menu in the Menu bar at the top of your screen, as shown in Figure 16 below.
This application may be added to the AppleScript menu by placing the original, a copy, or an alias of the application in the /Library/Scripts/ folder. This folder is hidden by default in Lion, but it may be opened from the Finder menu - Go - Go to Folder. And entering '/Library/Scripts/'. Cocktail, other utilities, or a terminal command may be used to unhide this Scripts folder permanently. Google something like 'unhide show Lion Library folder' for additional instructions.
Remember to return the SD card to your CPAP machine after you finish updating the backup.