Blood Glucose Monitor: in Hearty Heron how can I download readings
Hi,
I have an Abbott Freestyle Lite BG monitor and had been using the software supplied by Abbott - looks like a DOS prog. It has options to graph etc. I would be happy to download into Open Office spreadsheet and manipulate them myself. As a complete Newbie I do not know how to see what is connected to my laptop via the USB. Nor do I know what is the format the BG readings on the monitor. Any help would be appreciated, Cuddy. |
That is quite a non-standard peripheral you have there :o
Your machine doesn't respond when you plug the device it? Let's have a look: After you plug it in, run these commands and post the output here: Code:
dmesg | tail |
The Freestyle Lite FAQ lists 2 programs from Abbott that can be used. Do you know if you have "CoPilot™ Health Management System" or "Precision Link® Direct Diabetes Data Management System" software?
Pages 19 & 20 of the CoPilot Quick Reference describe the connection as a serial connection. There is also a USB connection. It is a serial to USB cable. Using the USB version means you need to have serial-USB kernel modules installed and know what device to address when trying to connect. What Linux distribution are you using? |
Hi /dev/me
code produced:
$ dmesg | tail [ 63.236334] [drm] Initialised raedon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0 [ 90.067158] ethl: no IPv6 routers present [ 92.104247] agpgart: found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00.0 into 4X mode [ 92.104854] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00.0 into 4X mode [ 92.105334] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4X mode [ 93.458179] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [ 93.458254] [drm] writeback test ucceeded in 2usecs [ 372.824438] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 373.008618] usb 1-2:configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice $ /sbin/lsub bash: /sbin/lsub: No such directory found |
Hi 2damncommon
Previously I have downloaded both CoPilot and Precision Link to use. Precision Link worked fine.
When I loaded the latest Ubuntu, Hearty Heron, all got wiped. The cable supplied is a USB. Many thanks, Cuddy. |
I have tried again and realized my mistake.
$ /sbin bash: /sbin is a directory $cd sbin bash: cd: No such file or directory (As above with $ dmesg | tail) $ Lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0483:2015 SGS Thompson Microelectronics Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 002: ID la61:3410 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Does this make sense? Did Thompson Microelectronics make the BG Monitor? Thanks, Cuddy. |
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