Comments about Iris PC Interface for Mares Nemo Excel, M2 & M1 Computers:

I just got the Mares Nemo Excel dive computer and wanted to download the dive data. Overall this proved to be a very good investmet for visualizing the dive and keeping track of all the dives on the computer. It is a little pricy for just a IR sensor, but you do get the software as well. I would recommend everyone download the newest version of the software from the Mares site. The software is nice in that it provides you with a display of what the computer showed at each depth.

Comments about Iris PC Interface for Mares Nemo Excel, M2 & M1 Computers:

Once you get everything set up it has nice grafts and other charts to view of your dives, but getting it set up to run in Vista is a nightmare the disk that came with it is usless you need to go to Mares web site and get every download and patch they have (for Vista) and still go in and tell your pc what com port the iris is on but once its up and running it is a usefull tool. Mares just needs to update the booklet and the disk.

Comments about Iris PC Interface for Mares Nemo Excel, M2 & M1 Computers:

The product took some time setting up, I had to figure out the software installation procedures on my own. The PDf file says to just run a setup progam, there are two, an upgrade and a regular software, there is no indication if the software is a totally new and complete version in the "upgrade" version. In other words, is the software an upgrade or already upgraded? It was just an upgrade so there are two installs, then after that I found out the serial port it had been assigned to, and then took me 5 tries to get the ports aligned. But it is all done, now and I like it.

Comments about Iris PC Interface for Mares Nemo Excel, M2 & M1 Computers:

The instructions don't tell you that the USB interface captures a "COM" port. So it took a little time to figure out that, when I plugged it into the USB port, it grabbed COM port 5.

After that, it was pretty easy. It would be nice if the software was a little more powerful - e.g., calculated average depth and it would also be good if you could input more info (not supported by the computer itself) like starting and ending pressure, etc. Even better would be support for calculating gas consumption...

The dive profile and other info display is easy to use and very helpful.

Comments about Iris PC Interface for Mares Nemo Excel, M2 & M1 Computers:

I own a Mares M2 dive computer. I was hesitant buying this, after reading many poor reviews of the previous model (serial connection vs USB). I finally broke down and bought it, and I’m very happy with its performance. You do have to understand computers a bit, to know how to find which “com port" Windows assigns the interface to, and enter that into the IRIS program. But, that done, it transferred the data easily and flawlessly.

I think the price is high, but ultimately worth it to get the data out of my dive computer. The free IRIS software is pretty good, and once you get the data into your computer, you can use lots of different software to view and analyze it.