Installing 0.8.0 on Manjaro 24.1 (rolling release) some observations about Accu-Chek meters #6
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Smartpix should be working correctly on Linux... It was tested and implemented on Linux. Try connecting Smartpix before you start app and test again. Or maybe you have higher version of Smartpix... I am affraid that I can't have have a way to test it at the moment. I would need to get myself a Roche meter first. I will see what can be done... But Smartpix should be supported. I used it a lot in the past, but I haven't tested it with new version. Do 2 tests:
(you can select any Roche meter, they all work the same). And you don't have to explain anything... Testing is good for both types and most of software doesn't work on Linux. I haven't touched this app much before 1 year ago when I managed to move it to github, because people just didn't use it anymore (or at least they didn't tell me they did)... Where did you find information that SmartPix 2.x doesn't work on Linux? |
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Your own help popup. |
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Would it be possible for you to upgrade to SmartPix 3? I mean SmartPix 3 has been around for over 16 years now... |
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Sadly, my doctor disagrees with me (and you) about testing. In England, if they follow the NICE guidelines, type 2's don't need to test unless they are on medication that can cause hypos. I'm now on metformin, as well as a low carb diet, which I have managed by literally "eating to my meter". My HbA1c is 35. Despite my protests, they stopped my supply of test strips and lancets at the end of September, I'm now having to buy my own and the test strips for the Accu-Chek Performa Nano I was given are £20 per 50 at retail. I've just bought the Instant as the test strips are around £9 per 50. I had thought that the Instant worked with the SmartPix software, but it doesn't, as stated earlier. Hence for a request for the Instant to be added. Is there any way I can help ? I'm not a coder, but very happy with the hardware/software interface, and familiar with command line stuff relating to Linux. |
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Can you go to your SmartPix and select START.HTM in browser, it should show you the version... Problem might actually be with your version of Smartpix... Since Instant is very new device, it might not work with older versions of smartpix... I know that I had to upgrade my SmartPix when I started using the Combo pump (which was also ages ago)... |
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Question is if firmware upgrade is still possible... I was looking at this all the downloads for Smartpix and I can't find the one that actually changes firmware... And it seems that new browser can't even open smartpix directly anymore... If you got your Smartpix in last few years, you should have version 3 already... |
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So if you go to /START.HTM and open in browser you should get something like this; What is your version shown there? |
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I have been using GGC on Linux from the start... So it should work... You should have latest SmartPix installed (which I think its 3.0.5). You can check it on SMARTPIX device in folder misc there is file S* and it shows your serial number and Firmware version. You can easily upgrade by downloading firmware upgrade package... Here is download for upgrade: https://www.accu-chek.ch/produkte/smartpix (it seems actual version is 3.2.5) |
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Discovering how it works will be nightmare... If I didn't have help from my "inside" man then I could have never implemented it... All silvery and very shiny... |
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I've just done what I should have done before - read the manual. I will however look at the Menarini device more closely, and feed back any issues on a separate thread. |
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He he... But that is actually just User manual, it doesn't give details what commands needs to be issued to device and in which way and what response to expect. Old model worked that you issued speciafic command (in form of creating file with specific data) and then SP would run and generate special XML file on the drive, which you could then read. Until I get my hands on this "Model 2" device I won't know if it works the same way or is this totally different "beast"... And then I also to need to determine what is happening with "Model 1" why it stopped working. |
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Where exactly did that command file have to be put in order for it to be processed, what was it's name ? |
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The old SP, had sort of Read-Only file system, you could see the files, but you couldn't add them or delete them. So when you copied file (with any name) to it and if it had correct content it would execute command specified in file:
This would be command to erase report, which after reading would reside on: |
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Ok. So I don't know what happened, but it seems that SmartPix doesn't work like it worked before... At least not the version I have... I will have to check and see if I can rewrite this... Really weird... I will have access to my old meters in about 2 weeks, so I will check then... But at least I can see that reading pump with Smartpix doesn't work... I have different version of Smartpix at my parents place and I have to see if that one works better... |
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Maybe there is a clue in the strange thing I found yesterday. Please read carefully, it's a bit complicated, I've deliberately used the terms "SmartPix device" and "SmartPix software" throughout to make them distinct. In the past, I have failed to get the Accu-Check SmartPix (v3.2.5) Windows software that I installed under Wine to connect to the SmartPix device, it just times out. I have been through all the items relating to USB connectivity that I could find in the Wine help and wider web. Dual booting was the only solution. Yesterday, once I had grasped the need to keep the SmartPix device in circuit in order to connect the Instant meter, I had done a successful connection to the Instant when in Windows. The blue speckled light on the SmartPix device lights up when reading is ready or taking place for both the I/R and USB meters. Before yesterday, I've never had the blue speckled light lit on Linux. I then restarted the thinkpad into linux, without powering down, however the USB lead was unplugged to prevent the thinkpad from trying to boot off the USB mass storage part of the SmartPix device. This process is repeatable, and I can close the app and re-open as many times as I like and there is still a connection to the SmartPix device. However, once the device has been disconnected, the app cannot reconnect without returning to Windows 10 and doing the same thing over again. What I haven't yet checked out is whether the USB device numbering changes on reconnection, I suspect it does, but I think the issues might be related to data rate or handshake rather than port numbering. Maybe this aspect is where you might need to start your investigations. Perhaps the default USB data speed in Linux is now faster than the old SmartPix device can handle, in seven years a lot can change. |
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Something else is wrong... I never had problem running SP on my Linux.. We have implementation where we issue special command to SP and when thoose commands are executed STATUS.TXT is supposed to be changing (with status of what is happening. For some reason this doesn't work like this anymore (they might have broken this and not noticed, since they might have stopped doing it this way... Years ago I had person in Roche, which I could contact and I had inside view how that works... And it worked great... But its been over 15 years since I implemented SP support, so it seems that in meantime they had several upgrades and have broken this functionality. So I need to retest it with device that I implemented it with, which is not where I currently live... |
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Ok. So bad news/bad news. I have tested SmartPix with older version and it seems that some of my changes in past have broken all imports. So older version works "better", but it seems SmartPix is still not working. So I need to fix import code in GGC 0.8 (at least for SmartPix) and then I can look at how to fix SmartPix itself. So when we start import we have sort of PreInit part, which turns of AUTO SCAN and then removes current file. This is the part that wasn't working in new version, so after I add this functionality back (I currently have 2 version of "drivers" running in application V1 which is old and V2 which is new one, and to which I am moving all old device implementations, but seems that when I create V2, I missed out preInit functionality (at the moment SmartPix (and devices using it) are only devices that uses that). So after that is fixed then I can retest SmartPix and find solution to why it doesn't work (and how to make it work again)... Since this doesn't work on old version either (where it worked before), I am assuming that something within SmartPix Model 1 has changed, which is the reason why it stopped working. |
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I've now got a working install, on the way I found a couple of issues I'd like to share, either to help others or flag up some potential issues.
Initially I had to find apache-maven-3.6.3 as a tar.gz file on their archive and then install the binaries as per the included README file.
Firstly "Build".
Using "git clone [email protected]:andyrozman/ggc.git --recursive" - it failed to download the atech-tools element due to a problem with the fingerprint.
I got a yes/no/fingerprint request, as I don't have an ssh key, the permission was not granted and that part of the clone failed. Why does the atech-tools need ssh key but the main code not need one ?
The workaround was to download the atech-tools zip file and manually copy the contents into the atech-tools folder.
Running "mvn clean install" meant I got a fully successful build of ggc.
Secondly, I ran "java -jar ggc-desktop-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar" from the ggc-desktop-app/ggc-desktop/target folder.
On first run, having failed to find the data folder, it stared searching what seemed to be a series of random folders which seem to have data: at the end of the path. - is this correct behaviour ?
17:24:32,405 INFO [GGC:93] - =============== Starting GGC (0.8.0 - 24.11.2024 17:13) ===============
17:24:32,409 INFO [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:60] - Directory UserDataDirectory: /home/doug/.GNU_Gluco_Control found.
17:24:32,410 INFO [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:69] - check If All Required Files Exist
17:24:32,411 WARN [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:83] - File /home/doug/.GNU_Gluco_Control/db/ggc_db.mv.db exists: false
17:24:32,411 WARN [UserDataDirectory:231] - Installation doesn't seem to be valid. Running creation or migration of data directories
17:24:34,004 WARN [UserDataDirectoryV2CreatorOrMigration:149] - determineIfThisIsCorrectDataDirectory: /home/doug/.exact-audio-copy/dosdevices/z:/usr/lib64/qt6/mkspecs/features/data: false
17:24:34,409 WARN [UserDataDirectoryV2CreatorOrMigration:149] - determineIfThisIsCorrectDataDirectory: /home/doug/.exact-audio-copy/dosdevices/z:/usr/lib64/libreoffice/sdk/examples/DevelopersGuide/UCB/data: false
This continued for several seconds, so I did Ctrl-C to end the java command, tried to work out why it was looking in strange folders, then ran the command again.
17:26:40,491 INFO [GGC:93] - =============== Starting GGC (0.8.0 - 24.11.2024 17:13) ===============
17:26:40,497 INFO [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:60] - Directory UserDataDirectory: /home/doug/.GNU_Gluco_Control found.
17:26:40,497 INFO [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:69] - check If All Required Files Exist
17:26:40,498 WARN [UserDataDirectoryV2Validator:83] - File /home/doug/.GNU_Gluco_Control/db/ggc_db.mv.db exists: false
17:26:40,499 WARN [UserDataDirectory:231] - Installation doesn't seem to be valid. Running creation or migration of data directories
17:26:40,716 WARN [UserDataDirectoryV2CreatorOrMigration:149] - determineIfThisIsCorrectDataDirectory: /home/doug/ggc/ggc.try1/ggc-desktop-app/ggc-desktop/data: false
17:26:40,728 INFO [UserDataDirectoryV2CreatorOrMigration:105] - Trying to installNewDataDirectory
17:26:40,739 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:64] - Process Install
17:26:40,742 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:196] - Unzip resource file '/install/db_7_v2.zip' to target the ATdirectory.
17:26:40,966 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:196] - Unzip resource file '/install/data_root.zip' to target directory.
17:26:40,971 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:196] - Unzip resource file '/install/skinlf_themes.zip' to target directory.
17:26:41,135 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:196] - Unzip resource file '/install/nutrition.zip' to target directory.
17:26:42,012 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:251] - Make directory tools.
17:26:42,045 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:251] - Make directory export.
17:26:42,047 INFO [InstallMigrationHandler:251] - Make directory print.
17:26:42,294 INFO [HibernateConfiguration:180] - Your DB version identified by HBM.xml resource files (sha1=17f84910f226c9d9bf6c8218fc824c6d2a01d05b, db_version=7).
17:26:42,306 INFO [HibernateConfiguration:443] - Loading Db Configuration #0
17:26:42,307 INFO [GGCDbConfig:158] - GGCDb: Loading Db Configuration #0: Internal Db (H2)
17:26:42,999 INFO [DataAccess:1512] - Start internal Web Server
17:26:43,042 INFO [Server:264] - Pygmy Server (v0.4.3) running.
17:26:43,067 WARN [DbCheckReport:148] - Db Report file not found !
17:26:43,118 DEBUG [RedirectScreen:170] - SkinLf file: /home/doug/.GNU_Gluco_Control/skinlf_themes/modernthemepack_ggc.zip, exists: true
^C 17:26:43,679 INFO [Server:388] - Pygmy Server (v0.4.3) shutdown complete.
I did Ctrl-C again, to check the messages, just as the app window opened, this time it looked Ok.
I've explored the features of the app, but when as I tried to connect my SmartPix unit, it failed, and so checked the help, then I discovered that you haven't got the SmartPix v2 to work on linux, which is parallel to my experience with running the SmartPix app under wine. The app works and manipulates the database etc., but won't communicate so I have to use a windows install to read my device.
I hope to come back later and explain why a type 2 diabetic is testing at all, and trying FOSS solutions instead of using the proprietary apps that are available.
Regards
Doug
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