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Type 2 BluCon NightRider

Leglessghirl69 said:
Thinking of buying found it on a site called eng.sugarcubes.sellingo.pl anyone heard of site or used it reviews on it aren’t in English lol
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Hi, I started a thread about blucon a while back after it first came out. There some tips where to buy it, and on setting it up and the program to use it with:

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/getting-hypo-alerts-with-libre-blucon-and-xdrip.127195/

Things have moved on a lot since then, though. It certainly worked reliably for me for well over a year, but the fact that the original version wasn't waterproof and had to be taken off for showers was a minor bother (a later version was waterproof).

A newer type of transmitter called MiaoMiao came out last year, it is waterproof and slightly slimmer than the blucon, so I switched over to that a few months back. It works well.

Blucon was the first commercially available libre transmitter, and it certainly served its purpose well, but it's become a bit like betamax after miaomiao came out, so I'd suggest going for the latter if you're going down this route.

https://miaomiao.cool

If you're using an android phone, you'll be fine with the xDrip+ app, which receives the libre readings through the transmitter, but if on ios, the app Spike which is used on iphones has had a few issues in the last few days with Apple revoking the certificates for it, so it's a bit uncertain at the moment.

If price is an issue, the non-waterproof blucon is way cheaper than the miaomiao, about £85 compared to about £160, but if the price isn't a problem I'd likely go for the mm.

Good luck, libre is good on it's own, but adding a transmitter to it and using it with xDrip+ really takes it to a new level.
 
Great thanks money is a bit of an issue so that’s why I’m looking at BluCon been having night hypos so was looking into it as my HypoBand1.1 is constantly going off as soon as I put it on but I’m constantly having sweats so not ideal
 
Leglessghirl69 said:
Great thanks money is a bit of an issue so that’s why I’m looking at BluCon been having night hypos so was looking into it as my HypoBand1.1 is constantly going off as soon as I put it on but I’m constantly having sweats so not ideal
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Yeah, I'd say go for it. The android app xDrip+ which picks up the 5 min readings from it and libre lets you set up a range of customisable hypo alerts. So you could, for example, set up an alert for, say, 4.4, so your phone rings and wakes you long before you get anywhere near hypo


Bad hypos are pretty much a thing of the past for me now because I've used the app to understand more about adjusting my insulin shots to avoid them in the first place, and when that goes wrong, as it inevitably does from time to time with injected insulin, I've got the safety net of my phone ringing to wake me before it gets nasty.
 
Leglessghirl69 said:
Ordered it even got a discount but wondering about customs charges
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Couple of years since I bought mine, but as far as I can remember, what happened was I got a Post Office note through my door saying yr parcel's here but there's some charges to pay.

It was about £27 all in, which broke down to £7 Post Office handling fee, and £20 customs.

There seems to be a way of reclaiming the £20 seeing as it's being used for medical purposes which makes it exempt, but I couldn't be bothered figuring out the paperwork for it.
 
I’m very confused as NightRider arrived today via Royal Mail special delivery but I received an email a couple of days ago from USPS saying tracking number etc which hasn’t updated yet postage date was yesterday
 
Scott-C said:
Yeah, I'd say go for it. The android app xDrip+ which picks up the 5 min readings from it and libre lets you set up a range of customisable hypo alerts. So you could, for example, set up an alert for, say, 4.4, so your phone rings and wakes you long before you get anywhere near hypo


Bad hypos are pretty much a thing of the past for me now because I've used the app to understand more about adjusting my insulin shots to avoid them in the first place, and when that goes wrong, as it inevitably does from time to time with injected insulin, I've got the safety net of my phone ringing to wake me before it gets nasty.
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Sorry if I’m being a pain but my NightRider is saying 16.2 but scan 11.5 should it be such a difference
 
Leglessghirl69 said:
Sorry if I’m being a pain but my NightRider is saying 16.2 but scan 11.5 should it be such a difference
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Have you calibrated it properly?

I wait till my levels are generally stable, in the morning before I get up is usually best as there is a fair chance glucose in blood and in interstitial fluid will be about the same then, do a bg test, then go into Settings/ Add Calibration, and type the bg reading in to tell it what bg is at point.

Best to do this at a few ranges, when bg is 5'ish and a few when high and low too.

Remember that if bg is changing rapidly, there'll still be a difference, sometimes large, because levels change in blood before they show up in interstitial fluid.

Don't calibrate too much - it just confuses the app - and especially don't calibrate when levels are moving up or down quickly.
 
Oops, sorry, I thought you were using xDrip+, not linkblucon.

Have to rush just now (mum's birthday!) , will post later about xDrip+.
 
Hi, @Leglessghirl69 , linkblucon is a very basic app. If you're running an android phone, most of are using a way more sophisticated app, xDrip+

You can download the app here:

https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip/releases

Click the "Assets" link and then click the apk file, install it and you're good to go.

xDrip+ isn't certified by any medical body on the planet, it's coded by a guy called JamorHam who is doing his damned best to look after his T1 daughter, so lots of us in the T1 online community trust him and the other developers to look after us as well.

I've been using it for more than a year now. It works.

Edit to add: if you're running linkblucon on yr phone, delete that whole app entirely from yr phone before you run xDrip+ on it - they don't play well toghether.
 
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Leglessghirl69 said:
I’ve an iPhone but could buy a cheap android phone if this ones best
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A lot of people with iPhones were using Spike, an ios version of xDrip+, but it's recently had major problems with Apple revoking certificates which stops it working.

I'm not too sure whether blucon works with Spike - it works with the newer MiaoMiao transmitter, but that came long after blucon, so honestly don't know if blucon and spike would work together.

The online community are busy figuring out workarounds but it's all a bit up in the air at the moment so it's watch this space to see what happens.

Some of the developers post on this thread, so updates will probably get mentioned there. Keep an eye on Johan Degraeve's posts - he's one of the developers:

https://gitter.im/SpikeiOS/Lobby

@Mel dCP is up to speed with what's going on with it, so she'll likely post if a solution is found for ios apps, but remember that blucon and miaomiao are different things so what works for one might not work for the other.


Some have decided to get a cheap android as a backup - use the iphone for phone stuff and the android as a cgm. I run mine on an LG K8 2017, picked it up at Argos for just over a hundred quid.
 
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