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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1610990" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, Stroudie. It's a commercial product called Blucon Nightrider from a small start up company Ambrosia Systems in San Francisco. The founder used to work for Abbott, saw a niche for himself and ended up building a small transmitter, Blucon, which sits on top of the libre sensor. it's very compact, barely notice it. One off cost of £100 plus some shipping costs. They seem to have been overwhelmed by demand so people are having to wait a while - I got mine on pre-order a few months back.</p><p></p><p>Their inhouse app, LinkBlucon, is rubbish, no alerts, but the xDrip+ developers tweaked xDrip+ back in September so that it would take data from Blucon, in the same way that it takes data from G5, or the homemade things like limiTTer etc.</p><p></p><p>As far as I'm aware, there's a lot of dexcommers using xDrip+ in preference to the official dexcom app.</p><p></p><p>So blucon sits there on top of libre sensor, reads it every 5 minutes, then bluetooths it to xDrip+ on my phone and watch. It means I get all the functionality which xDrip+ has and, yes, that includes more customisable hypo and hyper alerts than I can shake a stick at! Also does predictive lows, and can calibrate the sensor readings to tighten up libre's sometimes shabby factory calibration.</p><p></p><p>I'll probably get around to trying dexcom at some point to compare the two, but, having used this set up for about a month now, I'm delighted with it. Provided I calibrate it now and then, it runs fairly close to blood for extended periods. It's a fairly solud, well made item, just need to change the cheap battery every two or so weeks, it's just a bit of electronics so I reckon it'll last for a good while.</p><p></p><p>All in all, hypo alerts for a one off cost of £100 ain't bad.</p><p></p><p>Here's what the transmitter looks like alongside libre sensor (it's actually smaller than it looks, it's just the angle I took the photo at):</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]24421[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And here's the output:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]24422[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1610990, member: 374531"] Hi, Stroudie. It's a commercial product called Blucon Nightrider from a small start up company Ambrosia Systems in San Francisco. The founder used to work for Abbott, saw a niche for himself and ended up building a small transmitter, Blucon, which sits on top of the libre sensor. it's very compact, barely notice it. One off cost of £100 plus some shipping costs. They seem to have been overwhelmed by demand so people are having to wait a while - I got mine on pre-order a few months back. Their inhouse app, LinkBlucon, is rubbish, no alerts, but the xDrip+ developers tweaked xDrip+ back in September so that it would take data from Blucon, in the same way that it takes data from G5, or the homemade things like limiTTer etc. As far as I'm aware, there's a lot of dexcommers using xDrip+ in preference to the official dexcom app. So blucon sits there on top of libre sensor, reads it every 5 minutes, then bluetooths it to xDrip+ on my phone and watch. It means I get all the functionality which xDrip+ has and, yes, that includes more customisable hypo and hyper alerts than I can shake a stick at! Also does predictive lows, and can calibrate the sensor readings to tighten up libre's sometimes shabby factory calibration. I'll probably get around to trying dexcom at some point to compare the two, but, having used this set up for about a month now, I'm delighted with it. Provided I calibrate it now and then, it runs fairly close to blood for extended periods. It's a fairly solud, well made item, just need to change the cheap battery every two or so weeks, it's just a bit of electronics so I reckon it'll last for a good while. All in all, hypo alerts for a one off cost of £100 ain't bad. Here's what the transmitter looks like alongside libre sensor (it's actually smaller than it looks, it's just the angle I took the photo at): [ATTACH=full]24421[/ATTACH] And here's the output: [ATTACH=full]24422[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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