Service & Downloads
3rd party software recommendations
e-obs logger generate a lot of different data. We offer some proccessing tools with the Data Decoder but mostly leave that to the experts themselves. Please check out our paper library for details on specific analysis. Here some 3rd party software recommendations that will get you started:
Movebank is a free online platform that helps researchers manage, share, analyze and archive animal movement data.
- archive animal movement data for future use, as controlled by the data owners.
- enable collaborations between researchers, students, conservation organizations and governments who are interested in animal movement.
- help scientists address new questions by combining datasets to test ideas related to ecological patterns, evolutionary processes and disease spread.
- promote open access to animal movement data, in particular when the data collection is publicly funded.
- allow the public to explore the amazing animal movements recorded by animal trackers.
The Movebank Acceleration Viewer is a free tool within / coupled with Movebank. It has tools for viewing and analyzing acceleration and GPS data acquired by e-obs telemetry tags.
Firetail is a commercial software extending the Movebank Acceleration Viewer, developed by the Schäuffelhut Berger GmbH, Germany. It is designed with Movebank and the latest e-obs features in mind.
- View GPS points directly after download from tag in the field. Handles more than 500.000 GPS points.
- Display more than 10M acceleration samples – time sychronized with GPS points.
- Firetail offers different visualizations and various options for processing tracking data. Select data by area, time period and more.
Data Decoder
The DataDecoder is your primary tool to process recorded data. Please make sure to always use the latest DataDecoder version. New devices (BaseStations and/or animal tags) may have a new version of onboard software (firmware) which requires a new DataDecoder! Generally all new DataDecoder versions can also process data (logger.bin-files) coming from older devices, therefore it is normally not necessary to keep older DataDecoder versions.
Computer-Platform: Microsoft-Windows (see below for other Platforms)
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| decoder-v7-1.exe |
08.10.2014 |
Corrected version of decoder-v7_0. |
| decoder-v7-2.exe |
29.04.2015 |
Corrected ACC samplerate for some older special tags with Baboon-Software. |
| decoder-v7-3.exe |
01.08.2017 |
Tighter version checking. |
| decoder-v7-4.exe |
12.09.2017 |
Including the 920 Mhz version. |
| decoder-v7-5.exe |
20.02.2018 |
Support for new tags. |
| decoder-v8.exe |
23.10.2018 |
Corrected ACC, support for new tags. |
| decoder-v10s1.exe |
26.04.2019 |
Support for new tags with IMU. |
| decoder-v11.exe |
06.09.2019 |
Improved Error handling. |
|
decoder-v13.exe |
22.06.2020 |
For better distinction of ACC data coming from IMU. |
|
decoder-v14-win64.exe |
14.06.2021 |
Support for new collars with IMU and Geofence. Should also run on MAC with Wine. |
|
05.05.2023 |
Support for new collars with Solar cells and for more temperature data. Should also run on MAC with Wine. |
Computer-Platform: Linux (ix86-Linux)
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
decoder-linux64-v7-1.gz |
08.10.2014 |
Corrected version of decoder-linux64-v7-0. |
|
decoder-linux64-v7-2.gz |
29.04.2015 |
Corrected ACC samplerate for some older special tags with Baboon-Software. |
|
decoder-linux64-v7-3.gz |
01.08.2017 |
Tighter version checking. |
|
decoder-linux64-v7-4.gz |
12.09.2017 |
Including the 920 Mhz version. |
|
decoder-linux64-v7-5.gz |
20.02.2018 |
Support for new tags. |
|
decoder-linux64-v8.gz |
23.10.2018 |
Corrected ACC, support for new tags. |
|
decoder-linux64-v8.gz |
23.10.2018 |
Corrected ACC, support for new tags. |
|
decoder-linux64-v10.gz |
26.04.2019 |
Support for new tags with IMU. |
|
decoder-linux64-v11.gz |
06.09.2019 |
Improved Error handling. |
|
decoder-linux64-v13.gz |
22.06.2020 |
For better distinction of ACC data coming from IMU. |
|
decoder-linux64-v14.gz |
14.06.2021 |
Support for new Collars with IMU and geofence. |
|
05.05.2023 |
Support for new Collars with solar cells and for more temperature data. |
Computer-Platform: New Apple Macintosh based on Intel processors
You can use WINE to run the Windows Version (see above) of the data decoder within MAC OS X Catalina. Customers told us, that you start the data decoder on the command line like this: „wine64 decoder_v14_win64.exe“. Alternatively you can install Microsoft Windows on your MAC and then use the data decoder version for Windows.
Setuptool
Computer-Platform: Microsoft-Windows
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
EobsSetupTool-Windows-release-v1.3.2.zip |
13.08.2019 |
Support for new devices. |
|
EobsSetupTool-release-v2.0.0.zip |
11.05.2021 |
New Setuptool with many new features. |
|
EobsSetupTool-release-v2.0.2.zip |
21.05.2021 |
Improvements. |
|
21.10.2022 |
Support for new devices, small improvements. |
Computer-Platform: Apple MAC OS X or Linux
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
EobsSetupTool-release-v1.3.2.zip |
13.08.2019 |
Support for new devices. |
|
EobsSetupTool-release-v2.0.0.tar |
11.05.2021 |
New Setuptool with many new features. |
|
EobsSetupTool-release-v2.0.2.tar |
21.05.2021 |
Improvements. |
|
21.10.2022 |
Support for new devices, small improvements. |
AccelDemo
Please contact us directly.
USB Driver
The USB driver for the basestations for Windows you can find here.