Changing monitor over to smart phone

Changing monitor to smartphone

by smokygolfer - 2017-07-13 21:27:15

I am not aware of this option for the Lattitude monitoring system. Land line, ethernet and the cellular adapter (available at an extra cost from Boston Scientific) are the only ones I've heard of.  The celluar adapter provides a celluar connection between the monitor and Boston Scientific and does not interface with a smartphone. I would be interested to know if there are other options as I too will be ditching the land line.

wifi

by dwelch - 2017-07-18 12:21:39

Didnt search much just now, but when I was told I was getting a boston scientific the monitor I looked at online had land line, ethernet and wifi, so if that is what you have in theory you can make your smart phone a hot spot or use the wifi in your house (or get an ethernet switch if you dont have a free port on your modem or router and use wired ethernet).  You wont want to do the hot spot thing constantly, just for short tests, for long term you will want a box that is not land line dependent.   all the vendors are having to deal with the world/patients not having landlines anymore.  There are relatively simple solutions to allow you to use your wifi and turn that into an ethernet connection near the box as well if your box supports ethernet.

googling for a manual and quickly scanning it this time around the one that got the top hit on google has land line and usb the usb can be used with a usb to ethernet (which you can perhaps get from them or gamble and buy one and maybe it works or doesnt, not sure if they charge for it).  plus the cellular thing which everyone says they charge for unless it is within the first few months of getting the device.  You could ask them and perhaps a usb wifi adapter can be used instead of ethernet.   If you have wifi at home you probably somewhere have wired ethernet as well even if you dont use it, one of the internet provider boxes or one you added yourself will have wired ethernet, then it is a matter of wiring through the house to where you want the box.  There is also solutions where you can run ethernet thorugh the power in your house it rides on the power line, two wall wart looking boxes one near where you have ethernet and one near where the box is...May or may not work in your house...

I dont have a box myself and am still not sure if I am going to get one...Otherwise i would have more answers.

Another thing you can try is an ooma box or other similar, this gives you phone over network or internet. at about $4 a month or free, just the federal fees.  plus the cost of the box which is like half what I paid.  there are a number of other similar solutions, then it is a question of whether the modem (landline plug) will work through this device...

need a forum for this

by dwelch - 2017-07-18 12:25:22

I am not going to get a box just so I can answer these questions, but I think if not already we need a forum for this, land lines are going away left and right for various reasons (younger folks dont use them, older folks are used to a phone in every room and not having to carry the only phone they have with them everywhere).   This is not the first and wont be the last time this is asked, but is a very important thing to solve, since these boxes are medical devices everytime they have a firmware upgrade, etc it goes through the government agencies and is costly, they cannot move with technology as fast as a roku or set top box for example can (not used for the same thing I know but something many folks understand, and "just works" in their house).  

wireless bridge or voip

by dwelch - 2017-07-18 14:36:40

I understand some of these terms are unknown to some folks and scary to set these things up themselves, and for others no biggie.   But the term I was trying to remember was wireless bridge which many of the access points support TP-link has one for like $25 on amazon.

Perhaps pacemakerclub is the right number of folks to get together and see if we cant get one or all of these vendors to move their technology into the 1990s at least if not the 2000s...At the same time understand as I mentioned that if you do the right searches you will find that they have to submit firmware changes to the FDA and perhaps others (FCC) for approval, so they wont go running around doing these things.  the right answer would be to support not only a usb to ethernet but a usb wifi dongle, the problem there is now you need a user interface on the box in which to configure the wifi, and that is a major do-over, so cant see that happening.

The other thing you might look for is a VOIP Adapter, search for that at amazon or elsewhere and find many of them like the OBI200 or others, I have an ooma box but dont have a boston sci box to try the modem with, maybe someone has a boston sci or st judes or other box and is willing to try this.  Again some setup is required which is not something that everyone knows the terms for or is willing to do but if it works then maybe some simple instructions can be developed for those hesitant...(VOIP Voice over IP, basically in this case you have a phone cord that works like a phone cord with regular phones, but it is not connected to the phone company, you have a box in your house that electrically pretends to be the phone company but digitizes your phone calls (this is all the phone company does anyway just in a centralized building) and sends them over your internet connection, there are pay-for solutions, but many of these can be used with a few dollar a month and or free sites.  the idea here is if this voip line can be used for modem (if it says fax you have half a chance) connections then it might work for these boxes).