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@Scott-C. I did take a look at it, and looks interesting. It basically turns the libre into a proper cgm. Did you get yours from a UK dealer?
No, I pre-ordered it from their website. It's a very small start-up company which doesn't have distributors.
The guy who set it up used to work for the libre makers, Abbott, and then seems to have seen a niche for himself and set up Ambrosia Systems.
I think the company is well intentioned but you'll maybe gather from the posts on their twitter/facebook that they've been kinda overwhelmed by the logistics of delivering a product worldwide - it seems shambolic (they don't seem to have realised until the last moment that to sell in Europe needs a CE mark!) but, at the end of the day, I got mine.
The company is very definitely a San Francisco start up - head office is a rent-an-office space in Market Street, SF, and the registered office is a suburban house in SF, so there's always a risk in buying from that sort of that set-up: they're well intentioned but good start-ups with the best will in the world fold.
But if you take the risk and get one, I can't fault it. Their in-house app, LinkBluCon, is rubbish, don't bother with it. But pairing it with the much more established and reliable xDrip+ is beautiful. Many dexcommers use it in preference to the official dexcom app.
Again, it's a bit of a leap of faith: xDrip+ is an offshoot from the charity Nightscout which was developed by parents of T1 kids who wanted to keep an eye on them. They trust it.
I trust xDrip+ too. I've been in the T1 game for almost 30 years, so I'm not a fool in this. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and am happy with it.
Below is a screenshot of it waking me up at 4am with an alert set at 4.4, it kicked in when it got a 4.3 reading, bg test read 4.2, then I take 5g, and trotting back up towards 5/6. Nice.
Provided I calibrate a couple of times a day, readings are normally only 0.2 or 0.3 out against bg tests. Dexcommers say that it's much more reliable than libre. Probably is, but only because it's calibrated. Running libre through blucon and xdrip+ allows me to calibrate in the same way as dexcom.
All in all, it's a pretty neat way of getting cgm through libre.