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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1836397" data-attributes="member: 374531">Bluetooth will do. The blucon transmitter reads the libre sensor with NFC, and then bluetooths it to the phone.The phone doesn't need NFC because the blucon takes care of that bit.I started a thread a while back about blucon/xdrip+ which gives some tips on setting it up with xdrip+, so here's a link to it:<a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/getting-hypo-alerts-with-libre-blucon-and-xdrip.127195/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/getting-hypo-alerts-with-libre-blucon-and-xdrip.127195/</a>Libre is great on it's own, and blucon/xDrip+ takes it to a whole new level, calibration, hypo and hyper alerts being the main ones. But it's also important to understand that there are times when any sort of cgm will throw a wobbly. One of the skill sets which you, the wee lad and the parents will need to acquire is understanding when you can trust cgm output and when you can't. Calibrating it properly against a blood test is the main thing to be aware of. Calibration means inputting a bg reading to tell the program that the number it's reading from the libre sensor means 5.7 or whatever. If you calibrate when bg is shooting around all over the place, say, like after a meal, when the glucose has gotten into blood but not yet into the interstitial fluid which the libre sensor is measuring, it's going to throw it well out. So, we tend to try to calibrate in the morning when there's a fair chance of glucose in blood being similar to glucose in interstitial fluid.There's a couple of books on kindle which help a lot with that stuff:Sugar Surfing, Stephen Ponder.Beyond Fingersticks, William Lee Dubois.There's another transmitter come on the scene recently, MiaoMiao. Haven't used it myself, but it's  been getting good reports.It's waterproof, which blucon isn't (although they've recently launched a waterproof version but the jury is still out on how waterproof it is).<a href="https://www.miaomiao.cool" target="_blank">https://www.miaomiao.cool</a></blockquote>

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