Recent Content by mattrix

@HSS, [in response to I have never been treated different] You have never been told that "diabetes is a progressive disease, and that that your health will suffer the longer you have had diabetes". I have developed a number of other conditions since/in conjunction with developing diabetes. My GP...

I thought this thread had died. When I made the original post I was refering to in a medical environment. Sure people use labels for themselves. Judge, Professor, Reverend, Doctor generally to emphasise their social standing. Even sailor emphasises your special abilities. But 'diabetic'...

I have been through several Caresens N meters. I find the weak point in the design is that the fingers that touch the contacts lose their tension and make a dodgy connection. So that you insert a strip and the meter turns on, but then can't find the strip and turns off. If you fiddle with the...

On the occaisions I have woken in the middle of the night when I am hypo, I feel terribly hot and am restless and can't get back to sleep. I don't know if there are occaisions when I have not woken up. During the day I first tend to get single-minded, I have something to do and don't have the...

@LittleGreyCat According to nutribolts blog, the data is available over the Libre2s blue tooth. It is just the Abbott LibreLink app that does not have the ability to use this functionality. As was pointed out diabox seems to be able to do it.

Thank you so much @nutribolt, Edit: apparantly it is just the Abbott LibreLink app that requires the data over NFC. pity xdrips NFC is flakey. Even the Libre2 still requires to be scanned by NFC to get the data. Can diabox do NFC more reliably than xdrip? But Libre2 won't reach here for about...

That is truly disappointing.

Bump. @nutribolt or others who have used Xdrip, would you care to comment on the original post?

The scanning every 8 hours is a bugbear of mine. With my last sensor (Lire1) on day 14 I overslept and lost 8 hours of data. I would hope that with bluetooth on overnight the readings would be updated regularly, so you could oversleep. During the day there is no difficulty scanning at least once...

I guess it would be academic if the Libre and my finger-stick meter had closer agreement with each other, but the Libre reads far lower than my meter. I did get a replacement for my first sensor, but the replacement and all subsequent sensors have also read lower. That is not to say my...

No I am not using LibreLink. I am using the stand alone Libre Reader/meter. But it has limitations, it won't tell you what your PG is if it is less than 2.2, It won't read a sensor until an hour after activating it, even if you have been wearing the sensor for 24 hours and the reader/meter stops...

Thankyou @sgm14, Perhaps it is not for me. I just wanted to get more/better data than the Libre reader gives me. So I won't have a MiaoMiao, or a blue tooth connection and the android device will only have sporadic internet access.

I was concentrating on the questions so much that I forgot to mention what I wanted to use it for and with. Fixed now. I have never actually used facebook. This might be where I let zuckerberg spam me. Though facebook seems to be so script heavy, that it crashes my browser after a short time.

Edit: Forgot to say I want to use xdrip with the Freestyle Libre1, on an android handheld computer/phone that I don't have yet. I just want to get more/better data than the Libre reader/meter gives me. What will xdrip show me that the Libre reader/meter won't? 1. will xdrip continue giving...

OK, it appears I am just thin skinned for preferring, 'Bill has diabetes' rather than 'Bill is a diabetic' (BTW one keystroke more) Just as I would find it objectionable to say, 'Jane is a cancer' or 'Jane is cancerous' rather than 'Jane has cancer'. I particularly dislike it when it is...