Carelink usb driver for windows 102/11/2022 Seeing as you are using Tor and a fake address, it appears that I hit a nerve. From the inside, it’s very frustrating that no one in this community has taken the time to understand that. It’d be neat to see the d-Blog community explore this process and start to understand why these big companies can’t just pop out awesome new tools like those made by John Costik, Tidepool, and the other d-Hackers. But those steps could be made less onerous. We all want this software to be safe and effective this means these checks have to happen and that documentation has to be complete. This is not completely Medtronic’s fault and it’s not completely the FDA’s fault either, but both have made the process far more difficult than it needs to be. This is no mere IT issue of flipping some switch: every minor change required to support things like the OS X issue Tony describes requires a team of developers to create the solution, tons of paperwork to document those changes and their efficacy, checks that those changes didn’t break anything else, teams of engineers to check that CareLink still does what it’s supposed to do… the list goes on and takes months to complete. That makes CareLink a Serious Medical Device according to the FDA and many others, including Medtronic. The CareLink software interacts with your pump. This is one of the more unfair criticisms of a product with many shortcomings. ![]() ![]() I’ll write about the actual reports that CareLink provides in another post. (I’m not going to even talk about Chrome, which you supposedly don’t support at all…) Please update your CareLink application and browser compatibility. (It’s not just Medtronic… Dexcom has failed me, too.) What good is the data if you can’t get to it? Parting Thought Or system… that you have to review the data and reports. The Medtronic MiniMed 530G with Enlite is an integrated pump and continuous glucose monitor (and that threshold suspend, which I’ll write about soon… promise), but it’s an utter fail if you can’t use the browser… or two browsers…. The diabetes community talks incessantly (and I believe, sometimes to the wall) about the crucial need for integrated technology to make our lives easier to manage our diabetes. Like I told you before, Medtronic, while allowing me to trial the system and all that comes with it, does not expect that everything I say will be rainbows and glitter about my experience. What I do know is that it takes just one web developer to fix it and make sure that it works with all systems when there is an upgrade… I’m sure they can spare someone in their IT department. Will they do anything? Time will tell, which is pretty much been my phrase about this experience. I was polite, but I did use the phrase: “Unacceptable.” People who know me smile, as that means I’m pretty angry. Yes, I expressed my opinion to the support team at Medtronic. I was able to examine the data that I uploaded, but I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for others who expect that along with the latest technology they get from Medtronic, they get an upload system that will only work with the browsers of yesterday. (He somehow configured something and magically, I have a Firefox browser that is…workable.) If I didn’t have an amazing husband who is a web developer and happened to be home and was willing to sacrifice a pocket protector to the Geek God, I would have been not been able to upload my data. And wait, they don’t have a version for Mac. (Not Firefox 5.)Īnd by the way, if I wanted to download Internet Explorer right now, it’s IE 10 - or 11. I’ll fire up the Firefox browser I have… Version 21. My Safari was “too up-to-date”, so I couldn’t access CareLink through that browser. I got this screen when I went to Medtronic’s CareLink link on their website: So, the other evening, when I needed to upload data so that my trainer and I could look at it together while talking on the phone to adjust settings, I thought it would be easy. I know that CareLink works on a Mac, because I’ve uploaded my pump data before on this laptop. (According to Dexcom, I’m already a complete loser, as their CGM software won’t even run on a Mac unless you use a PC emulator program.) I have two browsers downloaded on my system: Safari (which comes standard on most Macs) and Firefox (which is easily downloaded and what I use occasionally for some banking transactions that demand Firefox). Other browsers might still work although Medtronic Diabetes is not able to guarantee proper operation of those browsers. The system is currently validated to work with Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 7, 8 and 9, Internet Explorer 10 Desktop, Apple® Safari® 4, 5 and 6, and Mozilla® Firefox® 5.0.1. Which web browsers can be used to access CareLink Personal software?
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