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However, their instructions for using this were NOT updated for Windows 7, so I think I did this incorrectly, and now I don't know how to fix it. To do this, I had to purchase what they call "CareLink USB", which is basically a USB dongle that you plug in, and it uses RF to transmit and receive from the computer to the insulin pump. More on how that’s going another day.I am diabetic, and want to upload data from my Medtronic MiniMed Insulin Pump to the computer to their Web-based CareLink Software.
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You know, the super-secret one that talks about how low-level people like me can interface with the OneTouch meters via serial port. Go to CareLink and enjoy uploading all of your data again.Īs for me, I’m going to get reading that Lifescan document.
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Why? Because installing drivers requires a reboot.

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I thought was a pretty stand-up thing to do. I haven’t used it, but they pointed me to the right drivers that they thought might work with the cable I already had. Here we go.įor the record, there’s a third-party vendor that makes a USB-to-serial cable for OneTouch meters that ships with a CD that should take care of all of this for you. I needed to do it anyway.) Pretty easy stuff. (Still, it was enough to prompt me to do the weekly computer backup before starting. You only need the nerve to open a terminal window on your Mac and use the sudo command. It does require obtaining and installing a driver on your system, but that’s pretty straightforward. I’m happy to report that it is completely possible to connect a OneTouch meter to CareLink using the USB-to-serial meter that you can buy from Lifescan. Mostly just the role of the hardware driver. Fortunately, there wasn’t a lot to learn. I’m a hardware newbie so I prepared to learn a lot.

Well, I’d finally had it with the “You can’t upload to CareLink or download into MATLAB” bullshit, so I decided to try to fix this problem with a few pointers from the Test and Measurement team ( a.k.a., the Data Acquisition Toolbox and Instrument Control Toolbox folks) at the office. Not everybody’s thing, of course, but what one of my college professors told another guy in the lab when I was inexplicably trying to configure the “broken” HP machine to run X-Windows still holds true: “Some people are high-level people. I did this in the past with a Freestyle meter, and that showed me how much better the world can be if programmers have direct access to the medical device data. You know what else sucks? Needing to use CareLink at all, when what I really want to do is to communicate with my meter from MATLAB directly. Now, it is cool that they gave me a free Bayer USB Contour meter, but I haven’t switched over my prescriptions yet. You know what sucks? Not being able to connect to CareLink from your nifty, modern Mac because Lifescan and/or Minimed decided it wasn’t worth creating a new driver for the cable that connects a OneTouch blood glucose meter to your USB port.
