| Hi,
I've read this thread with great interest. I have 2 diabetics in my household, both use UltraSmarts. I write software for a living, and it's very frustrating to me that there is no common transfer protocol or data format for all meters, but this is the world we live in.
Well, all I'm trying to accomplish is to automate the bi-weekly data sends from both our UltraSmarts to the doctor's fax machine. Being an engineer, it seems that I should be able (from a 15000 foot level) to automate using a Serial to Bluetooth adapter to transmit data from the meter to a collection point (a authorized desktop/laptop/smartphone near the meter), store the data, parse out the information I need, use that to generate a graph on a fax, then connect to the fax machine and send it. Or email, whichever is preferred. Or send it using Diabuddies. Etc. Etc. Basically do an automated graph send every x days/weeks. A little .NET app imo.
None of this should be that hard, I've done each (except the US data collection part and I've just started reading about Diabuddies) in one form or another in the past.
Anyway, I've been trying to connect to my son's UltraSmart for a couple days now via HyperTerminal using 38.4k, StopBits 1, Parity None, DataBits 8. Sending a DM? just to get the sw version, etc. doesn't work.
I Wrote a fast .NET class to try it using the System.IO.Ports.SerialPort namespace, but no go there also. I know that class works 'cause I can connect to a normal OneTouch Ultra2 and OneTouch Ultra using it (at lower baud rates, prefixing it with \x11 and \x0d, etc.). Could it have something to do with the USB/Serial cable I'm using? Shouldn't, that's how I connect to the other OneTouch meters.
I'm about to hook up a sniffer to start disassembling the data, but I figured I'd give this group a try and see if I can get the work (code) that's already been done for the UltraSmart instead of reinventing the wheel. Maybe I could help move things forward even?
Replies would be appreciated.
Sorry about the rambling lol,
Thanks
Frank
(not a diabetic, but a parent of 2)  | 
