Advocate Redi-Code Talking Glucose Meter Kit Combo (Meter Kit and Test Strips 100ct)

i have used one touch for several years. i got the first on amazon and went through three. when i found results between then very differ. When the battery goes bad i end up buying maybe ten at a time on line, but the next time the battery goes bad, none of those work. so i decided to change meters and the set for Advocate redi code with 5 boxes of test strips was cheapest.THE BAD THINGS:The first bad you notice is it mutters at you at a sound level that you can't quite understand what it is saying.. later I found that it is giving you all the directions for what ever step it thinks you are doing.. Consulting the half inch thick manual, I find you can change the volume to zero if you can get that far in set up. But the day I decided to set it up was Aug 31st. I was not up to pressing the little button 8 times then 31 times and I didn't know yet all the other things I would have had to get right every time to not screw up and have to start again from zero. It was just as bad when I first had to set up one touch and likely for any meter. but stop at date and time and go back to read priors results without erasing them allJust now when I wanted to check the most recent result, I ended up erasing the memory of the saved results of past tests. Also when you want to use it you have to decide from pre meal result, post meal result and general results. I don’t think you can set it to just test your blood sugar and save the result.There is a button inside the battery compartment to set all the things and you have to go through all of them to get to turn off the sound. I could not set the year since when it went to 2019 I guess I would have to reset and try again and that was only the first setting.Until I can find a kid to set it up I will put electrical tape over the button so I can't push it and do that again. it does turn on when you put a strip in and save results to memory. If I need to show past results, I will take it to a medical professional or a primary school kid dumb enough to do it for $5.The manual says things like the blood had to show through the confirmation window. I just now (second day) found the page that shows the confirmation window is the place on the test strip that sucks your blood sample in.GOOD Parts:The finger poker thing is way cooler than the one for one touch. But it does roll, and when I was trying to set it, I lost it for several hours. The batteries are AAA so you can replace them yourself. How cheap the test strips are will be found when I need to get more. Before I got this one, that was pretty much the sole criteria for choosing a meter system. I found that I could order an identical meter that does not talk for under $10 and I will be using this one, though I will have to write down the results of every test since it is debatable if I can ever use it without erasing all the results.Having figured out I can use the meter with electrical tape preventing me from erasing the memory, I will continue to use this meter or actually the same model that does not talk.The strips have no coding. One reason that I changed meters was that when I got cheap strips for the one step, and scratched the code number off the smaller strip jar and wrote in ink what the code was for the new kind. But I got confused after doing that for some years. When I checked the 3 or 4 codes I had used over the years, they all came out with almost identical readings using the same cheapo strips I was running out of.If you tear out al the pages of the manual for the language you do not speak it is only 1/4 inch thick and if you saved the smaller strip holding bottle meant for 25 strips but it still holds 50, from when you got the first one touch kit, you can fit everything in the zip bag.The strips do not suck up the blood as nicely as the cheapos, but that does not seem to matter. It works fast.We all know companies give away meters so you need to buy the strips, and when they give one free that the strips for sell for 10 cents each or less, that is the meter of my choice. No voices, no choicesI shudder to think if a really old person got one of these and tried to set it up. Not everyone knows electric tape works for plastic, duct tape for porous material.

wasent meter that I received.