FreeStyle Precision Neo, Optium Neo, Optium Neo H

Reverse engineered by Diego Elio Pettenò.

Important device notes

Abbott markets a number of similar meters with a different set of features enabled for each in different markets. These differences appear to be implemented similarly to the selection of glucose units used in display/reporting.

The known devices sharing the same base protocol are the following:

  • FreeStyle Precision Neo, marketed in the United States;
  • FreeStyle Optium Neo, marketed in Europe;
  • FreeStyle Optium Neo H.

The FreeStyle Precision Neo (at the very least) can also read special β-ketones testing strips.

USB IDs

Device Vendor ID Product ID
FreeStyle Precision Neo 1a61 3850

Protocol

This device uses the shared HID protocol used by other meters in the FreeStyle family. All messages that have been identified are considered text commands and use message type 0x60.

Commands

All commands supported by the shared protocol are supported by the device. Those that deviate from said protocol are here documented.

$result?

The $result? command is used to dump the readings records from the device, and it follows the Multiple records command output format as described in the shared protocol documentation.

The first field in the record specify the type of record; type 7 is a blood glucose reading, type 10 is an insulin input that was made on the device.

Blood glucose record fields

  1. type = "7"
  2. id
  3. month = 1*2DIGIT
  4. day = 1*2DIGIT
  5. year = 1*2DIGIT
  6. hour = 1*2DIGIT
  7. minute = 1*2DIGIT
  8. unknown
  9. value = 1*DIGIT / "HI"
  10. unknown
  11. unknown
  12. unknown
  13. unknown
  14. unknown
  15. unknown
  16. unknown
  17. unknown
  18. unknown
  19. unknown

The HI literal signifies a reading that was outside the range of the device (or more likely of the strip.) For glucose results, this is an unknown value.

Insulin record fields

  1. type = "10"
  2. id
  3. month = 1*2DIGIT
  4. day = 1*2DIGIT
  5. year = 1*2DIGIT
  6. hour = 1*2DIGIT
  7. minute = 1*2DIGIT
  8. unknown
  9. insulin-type
  10. value = 1*DIGIT
  11. unknown
  12. unknown
  13. unknown

The insulin type is defined as follows:

insulin-type = morning-long-acting / breakfast-short-acting /
               lunch-short-acting / evening-long-acting /
               dinner-short-acting
morning-long-acting = "0"
breakfast-short-acting = "1"
lunch-short-acting = "2"
evening-long-acting = "3"
dinner-short-acting = "4"

β-ketones record fields

  1. type = "9"
  2. id
  3. month = 1*2DIGIT
  4. day = 1*2DIGIT
  5. year = 1*2DIGIT
  6. hour = 1*2DIGIT
  7. minute = 1*2DIGIT
  8. unknown
  9. value = 1*DIGIT
  10. unknown

The Ketone value is in mg/dL not in mmol/L as it should be. Divide the value by 18 to get a proper Ketone value in mmol/L.

Other Commands

The following commands, used by other meters using the shared HID protocol, are identified as supported by the device:

$gunits?

Originally identified on FreeStyle Insulinx.

Unknown response. Best guess this may be "Glucose Units".

gunits-cmd = "$gunits?"
gunits-msg = "1" CRLF  ; on a mg/dL device

The theory of this being the unit of measure is supported by the $uom? command reporting 0 for a mmol/L FreeStyle Libre reader.

$marketlev?

Originally identified on FreeStyle Libre.

marketlev-cmd = "$marketlev?"
marketlev-msg = "1,0" CRLF