autoscan 5.7 & acr38 reader

pipesmell · Post by **pipesmell** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:23 pm

just got my acr38 reader today to use with autoscan 5.7, but I'm not having any luck. Anybody out there able to help me? Maybe I'm using the wrong drivers? Thy're from acs

thanks, Jim

Daffney_Gillfin · Post by **Daffney_Gillfin** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:42 am

I don't believe that I used the ACS drivers. IIRC, I did on the first installation, but then ended up loading drivers from the Autoscan disk. On the 2nd installation, I didn't use any of the ACS drivers.

Feel free to PM me if you continue having problems, and I'll do another installation to figure out exactly how I did it.

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:59 am

pipesmell wrote:just got my acr38 reader today to use with autoscan 5.7, but I'm not having any luck. Anybody out there able to help me? Maybe I'm using the wrong drivers? Thy're from acs

thanks, Jim

If I remember correctly, I didn't have to do anything out of the ordinary. Where exactly do you run into problems?

1) downloaded my data from the cpap machine to a resmed data card

2) installed autoscan

3) connected card reader

(I don't remember if windows did the usual hardware auto-detection, but I'm guessing it probably did.)

4) started autoscan

5) inserted data card into reader with the data contacts face up, carefully lining them up with the reader contacts

6) ran menu item "Download->ResScan Data Card"

The card reader shows up under Device Manager as "Smart card readers->ACR38 Smart Card Reader".

The device properties list as follows (I didn't change any settings):
"Reader" tab:
Card Parameters:
Card Type: MCU (T=0/T=1)
Card Voltage: Auto Detect
SFDT enabled

"Driver" tab:
Driver Provider: ACS
Driver Date: 3/24/2006
Driver Version: 1.1.5.6
Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

I'm also pretty sure I didn't install any drivers or anything downloaded from ACS. The reader just picked up whatever drivers were installed with autoscan. If you poke around on the AutoScan CD, you'll find the drivers, and the readme.txt says they're ACS. viewtopic.php?p=73987#73987

I'm also happy to run another test install on VMWare or a different PC.

pipesmell · Post by **pipesmell** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:41 pm

Thanks everybody for your help. The drivers I had were outdated, got it working fine with newer drivers. Thanks again,

Jim

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:26 am

Pipesmell, I love the name, my mouth watered as I was a pipe smoker for years. I quite over five and a half years ago and miss it dearly. I may have gained a year or two but at what a cost to my enjoyment. Anyway, had to coment.

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:57 am

Folks,

Thanks for confirming that the acr reader will work with std Autoscan.

DSM

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:18 am

Glad you got it working.

I'm curious why you had older drivers. Are you using autoscan 5.7?

Are your updated drivers the ones from the ACS website?

If you plan to keep detailed sleep data over time, you might want to set a reminder somewhere to download your data at least every 5 days (the cpap internal memory only keeps summary data past that).

Also check out this thread if you have a floppy drive that goes crazy whenever you run autoscan: viewtopic.php?t=14324

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