i recently got the blucon night ridernand been using it with xdrip and on connected to my moto g5 seems very good i wanted to ask is it normal for the blucon to discconect and recconecct from xdrips sometimes?.
Hi, static, I'm still running a very old version of xdrip from back in Sept 2017 and one of the first blucons, and haven't had any real connection issues with it - regularly get the full 288 readings per day.
I decided not to update my version because (a) it was working fine so why fix it when it ain't broke, and (b) I'd noticed some threads on the xdrip issues site reporting connection issues with later xdrip versions from early 2018, not just with blucon but across the whole range of transmitter types, including dexcom, medtrum and miaomiao, so I'm not convinced it's necessarily a blucon problem. Wonderful though xdrip is, it seemed to go through a phase where they were changing a bit of it and it broke other bits.
One thing to remember is that bluetooth is an unregulated free for all in the radio spectrum, so there's a whole host of things which can mess up a connection: the peculiarities of specific phone types (samsungs seem to have their own rules), and if someone is using more than one bluetooth gadget on their phone, that'll often hang it. And the obvious one of leaving your phone in one room while you're in another!
There's a few bells and whistles in xdrip which are worth looking at to try to improve things.
I'll post a few screenshots here to give you an idea of what to look for, but remember I'm using a year old version so the interface might have changed a lot on the version you're using.
There's some bluetooth set-up options tucked away under the cover.
First, go to Setting, then scroll down to Less Common Settings, click that, then tick the checkbox for Aggressive service restarts, like this pic:
Second, on that same page, just above that checkbox, click the Bluetooth Settings option, which will open the next pic. Tick these five checkboxes:
Third, if you see it hanging, instead of just waiting to see if it reconnects, go to the System Status page, BT device. See the Bluetooth Pairing field, the one marked green? The one in the pic is connected at the moment but it will read differently when hung, can't remember the wording, but it'll still be green. Tap that once, it'll switch it off, it'll briefly pop up a blue message, then when that disappears, tap the green field again, there'll be another blue pop-up and it'll then have a serious go at reconnecting. Every time I've used it, it'll usually sort it in a minute or two. Like I say, though, mine's is an older version so I have no idea if it's still an option now.
Good luck!