Anyone successful using mac with One Touch Meters?

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 1, 2009 at 7:09pm

Hi !

I am developer of GGC (ggc.sourceforge.net), which is open source software, written in Java (this means it can run almost everywhere). There will be new version out soon, which will work on mac (still in testing for mac platform), and this new one supports some of OT devices, not all but some... So if you are willing to wait a little, you can use that one... Maybe it will be good enough for you... Next version will come out at end of this month, drop me a line (PM) and I will reply when it's ready...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 8, 2009 at 1:06pm

Hi MomsL8 !

Me again... What kind of Mac do you have? Would it be possible for you to install Wine (Darwine or something). I know that only Intel based Macs support this though... If you can install it, than you can possibly run OT original software (maybe)... Didn't test that one... I had so much problems on windows with OT cable, that I continued development for OT on linux... he he... I am in process of testing GGC now on Mac... If you want I can send you test version so that you can try it... Release will be on 4th February (or here somewhere), but after this weekend I will do testing on mac and after that, you can try it... I hope that there are drivers for cable on Mac though... Will let you know...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by MomsL8 on January 8, 2009 at 2:15pm

I have an iMac. I'm really leary of running Parallels or anything like that, because I want my mac to operate as a mac. I definitely won't run Boot Camp as I don't need my hard drive partitioned. I do have the original OT software running on one Windows machine here.
There are no drivers or cables that work with the mac for OT at all (I did just order the USB cable with hopes that will work rather than the 9-pin). At least not that I've found. I'll see what my husband who is in IT says about testing it out.

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Permalink Reply by Kim Black on January 8, 2009 at 4:02pm

I'm a software developer and tester. I'd love to take a look at your release for the Mac. I have a Macbook pro and an iMac, both Intel.

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 8, 2009 at 10:17pm

Hi Kim !
The software (GGC) itself should run without problem... Question is if OT cable (or any other), will be recognized by system (cable is actually USB-Serial bridge, which is reason, why we are worried about issues) so that software can use it. I haven-t had time to come around to testing it... Thanks for volunteering... I will contact you privatelly (here on Tudiabetes) when I have something ready... This should by either on Sunday or on start of next week...
Andy

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 11, 2009 at 1:44pm

Hi !

Ok. So here is preliminary report. I have tested my application on Mac and it run almost without problems... Application is available here:
ftp://ftp.atech-software.com/pub/software/ggc/GGC_0.3.15.2_Mac.zip

This is just for testing... Now for OT support... I have OT device here and cable so I could test it... As first you will need to download driver for PL2303 (this is for cable)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/

Follow this steps:
1. Install PL2303 driver (and restart machine)
2. Unpack GGC zip file
3. in directory \docs you will find file Diabetes_Hardware.txt, at end of document are detailed
informations on what to do (see Appendix B. 1)
4. If you haven-t done so far, install java 1.5 (or 1.6)
5. Run application by running file in bin directory called run_mac.bash, you will need to do this in shell

In application, you go to Meters -> Configuration... (or something like this), configure your OT, if you don-t have any that is supported use Ultra 2. Maybe it will work... Then just go Meters -> Read Data

I still have to write most of Help, but I hope you wont have any problems with it...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by MomsL8 on January 11, 2009 at 3:47pm

Soooo...was the cable recognized, too?

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 11, 2009 at 9:42pm

Not out-of-the-box... You need to install PL 2303 driver first...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by Joe on November 1, 2009 at 1:48pm

does this save to a excell spread sheet of data base on you computer

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Permalink Reply by MomsL8 on January 12, 2009 at 7:23am

Ok! So I'll try it over this week then!

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on January 12, 2009 at 10:26am

Let me know if it works for you... if you have any problem let me know, and I will try to help... I am no Mac wizard, but I know little bit about Mac...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by Khürt Williams on February 17, 2009 at 9:10am

I am using the OneTouch Ultra with my MacBook and HealthEngage: http://www.healthengage.com/healthengagediabetes.html

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