SeaLogDive computer sync
How to import dives from a Seemann dive computer
No Seemann model in the catalog has a radio, so every transfer goes through a cable and a file. Pick your exact model below for the steps that apply to it.
Seemann models that need a cable
An iPhone cannot open a serial or USB connection to a dive computer. These go through a Mac or PC once, then into SeaLog as a UDDF file.
Seemann downloads, drivers and manuals
Dead twice over. Seemann Sub was bought by Johnson Outdoors in 2007, rebranded to SUBGEAR in 2010, and SUBGEAR was later folded away under Scubapro. No Seemann website, software, driver or manual survives from the manufacturer, and nothing in the current Scubapro line-up reads an XP5.
Desktop software
- Desktop softwareSubsurface (open-source, reads the Seemann XP5)The realistic route: the XP5 is listed among Subsurface's directly supported computers.Win + Mac
- Desktop softwarelibdivecomputerHandles the XP5 as an Oceanic-family device over a serial connection, which is what every third-party logger uses.Win + Mac
- Desktop softwareMacDive (macOS and iOS logbook)macOS
- Desktop softwareDiving Log (Windows logbook)Windows
- Desktop softwareScubapro LogTRAKListed only to rule it out: LogTRAK covers Uwatec-derived computers, and the XP5 is not one of them.Win + Mac
Worth knowing
- Seemann Sub was a German brand founded in 1979 and bought by Robert Stoss in 1997. Johnson Outdoors acquired it in 2007, renamed it SUBGEAR in 2010, and the SUBGEAR brand was subsequently retired into Scubapro.
- There is no surviving Seemann website, no official software download, no driver and no manufacturer-hosted manual. This is the most thoroughly orphaned brand in this batch alongside Sporasub.
- A common wrong turn: people assume Scubapro's LogTRAK will read an XP5 because Scubapro owns the brand's remains. It will not. LogTRAK targets Uwatec-lineage computers, whereas the XP5 is handled by libdivecomputer as an Oceanic Veo 250 family device.
- The XP5 talks over a serial connection, so you need an Oceanic-compatible serial download cable plus a USB-to-serial adapter on any modern machine. Verify the cable before buying, as no vendor sells one any more.
- Later SUBGEAR models such as the XP-10 and XP-3G are a different lineage again (Uwatec clones) and use IrDA, so guidance written for those does not transfer to the XP5.
One logbook for all of it
SeaLog keeps every dive in one place whichever computer it came from, with the depth profile intact, and exports back out to UDDF whenever you want it.