A quick and dirty script for importing CSV flight logbooks into Coradine's LogTen Pro. Now the OS X version supports direct CSV import, but I only wanted the iOS version which has no CSV import capability. It does, however, support the LogTen Pro API which allows importing data via OS URL scheme handlers (e.g. logten://method/{json_payload}).

This script spins up a tiny web server on your computer that serves a page with a single link in the above format containing all the data in a given CSV. You can just visit it from your iOS device with LogTen installed, click the link, and LogTen will ask if you want to import the data.

This probably isn't going to work out of the box for you without some modification or building your own schema file outright. The current (and only) schema is made to import a CSV I had previously built for importing into Zululog (sample data at the top of schema/zululog.rb). I don't think the format is standardized though, so I may not have the same columns as you.

To customize this to work for you, look in the schema folder and copy the existing zululog.rb. Then, you can use the docs for the conformist gem to build your own schema file that works for your CSV. It's all column index based. With conformist you can do cool things like combine multiple columns and create virtual columns. Reference the LogTen Pro API docs to see what to name the columns. If you create your own schema class, don't forget to change the schema definition in logbook.rb. You can check your work at any time by starting up the server (see below) and looking at the output JSON in your web browser.

You need a working Ruby installation and Bundler (gem install bundler). After that:

# clone the repo
git clone [email protected]:tfe/logflow.git
cd logflow

# install dependencies; feel free to include dev/test if you want to work on it or run the test suite
bundle install --without development test

# put your logbook in data/logbook.csv or otherwise pass the path a LOGBOOK_CSV environment var

# start up the server; the `-o` flag is so that this server will be accessible from the network
ruby logflow.rb -o 0.0.0.0

Then just use a web browser on your iOS device to browse to your computer's IP address on port 4567 (default port for Sinatra). You'll be able to see the flight data to be imported, and you can tap the link at the top to import to LogTen.

• Accept the CSV as a file upload rather than reading from a fixed file system path.
• Support more logbook formats for import out of the box.
• Be usable by non-programmer types. :-)

Problems, comments, and pull requests all welcome. Find me on GitHub.

Copyright © 2013 Todd Eichel.