Bayer Contour USB Blood Glucose Meter 1 ea
Product Description
Plug In. Know More. Take Action
For self-monitoring and management of blood glucose.
The initially blood glucose meter with plug & play diabetes management software.
Accuracy, innovation and convenience for your patients with diabetes.
Helps transform knowledge into meaningful insights
Just insert a test strip and plug into a total new world of diabetes management.
Integrated AutoLog equipment for intuitive meal marking
Brightly painted show and lighted test strip port – simple to read everywhere and anytime
Text messages instead of error codes
Rechargeable battery that can charge from any USB port
USB connector and integrated diabetes management software from Bayer
Date and time synchronization with the computer for accurate result tracking
2000-test memory
Uses Bayer’s CONTOUR™ equipment
No Coding™ Equipment
Minimizes effects of many common interfering substances
Involuntary control solution marking
Contains:
Contour.USB blood glucose meter
25 Contour test strips
Normal control strips
Meter quick reference guide
Meter use guide
Wall charger
USB extension cable
Bayer’s GLUCOFACTS® Deluxe Quick start guide
Bayer’s MICROLET®2 lancing device, alternative site endcap, adjustable endcap,
25 painted lancets
Bayer’s CLINILOG® logbook
Carrying case
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I bought this USB Glucose meter based on the favorable review of Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. It looks fantastic and was simple to set up. Unfortunately, the software failed to load on my computer. I went to Bayer’s website to see if there was a later release. There was not. I called Bayer consumer service and was told that the device is not supported on Windows 7 64-bit computers. I had no choice but to return it. Return was a hassle. I easily printed a return shipping mark on Dec 22. The tracking system shows it was received on December 29. As of January 7, no refund has been issued.
Rating: 1 / 5
After many years of using Lifescan One Touch meters I’m now switching to Bayer Contour. The Contour strips use less blood and suck up the sample easily. The color screen is very simple to see. Since I use the backlight on my Lifescan UltraSmart constantly having a backlight is necessary. The color screen does that one surpass as well as adding a lighted test strip port. The meter is very simple to use and comes with a wall charger and USB extension cord in case you can’t plug it frankly into a computer’s USB port to charge. I plot on keeping the wall charger at work because I have an older computer there and it does not have USB 2.0 ports.
At home I have a very low-priced Acer desktop in succession Windows Vista and have no tribulations with the software.
The lancet device is low-cost and I recommend tossing it in a drawer and replacing it with an Accu-Chek MultiClix device. The strips vial is very huge and could really be downsized. The case overall is poorly designed and bulky due to the huge strip vial.
This meter reads very close to my Lifescan One Touch meters and since I’m used to persons I don’t anticipate any tribulations switching over to the Contour faily of meters. You can get regular Contour meters for free or close to it for backups which is always a excellent thing. Nobody should have just one meter and since the Contour meters do not need coding you can go you vial of strips between meters.
Rating: 4 / 5
This product will not work on MAC OS Snow Leopard and you should not buy it if you have a Mac using Snow Leopard.
Once the meter is hooked up to the Mac USB port and you manage to open the GlucoFacts software you will get an error: “Bayer Glucofacts quit unexpectantly while using the BayerHIDOO.dll plug-in.” and the program quits.
To be sure, I even downloaded the software from the Bayer website (after giving away much personal information) and that software too crashes for the same reason.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have been trying for four days now to get this meter to work on a computer, any computer. Under Mac Snow Leopard, the installation software crashes. Under any version of Windows 7, you have to start the installation manually and install Sun Java RTE6. After you install that, the software will run off the meter exactly once. It will question you if you want to download the software to install on your machine, and the Bayer web site will time out with a message saying An error occurred, please try again later. This will happen every time you go to the web site to try to download the software for either Mac or Windows. It will happen on any computer you try.
Once the software has run in Windows 7 off the meter exactly once and the download has failed, every time you try to run the software again, it will tell you another meter is already connected, please disconnect that meter and reconnect the 2nd meter.
If you call Bayer, a recorded voice will tell you about how much they care, but no one will ever, ever, ever, ever answer the phone. You will leave many messages, but no one will call you back.
Mind you, I have successfully programed Logitech Harmony remotes and installed third party open source software on my linksys router; I’ve successfully removed my Macbook pro’s hard drive and upgraded it to a larger one; I’ve hacked my iPhone. So it’s not that I just don’t be with you how to install software. This is easily the worst software installation I have ever seen.
I could try installing it on a Windows XP with service pack 3, but I don’t have any Windows XP install cds lying around anymore.
On the plus side, the meter is cute. I like being able to mark readings before or after meal, something I could not do on my One Touch Ultra mini, making the reading downloads useless because I never started or finished meals in any specific time frame. I was hoping with the USB Contour, I could stop having to enter my readings eight times a day manually, but no such luck. I don’t believe Bayer really provides working software for this meter.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve had this new meter for about 6 weeks and it has been fantastic,small,color show, and the USB connection is far simpler than keeping up with yet another cable in the writhing mass of gadget cables we all seem to collect. One reviewer says it isn’t supported on Windows 7 64 bit but it works fine on my Vista 64 bit system. Does not work on Snow Leopard Mac but huge surprise there… The test strips are the usual rip off but if you search Amazon there are mail order vesions of (as far as I can tell) the same test strips for about half the price. I had been using One Touch and was pleased apart from for getting reults into the computer via one off cable they charged for hence go to USB meter.
So all in all only imporvemets I could wish for are Mac Support and an Iphone app to show my consequences..
Rating: 5 / 5