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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1752635" data-attributes="member: 374531">My thoughts exactly. Strips are snaphots, cgm is the full movie, so it's so much easier to make small adjustments while still in range, instead of a big sledgehammer to sort out messes.There's an easy way to bling it up a bit and turn it into "proper" cgm, so you'll get woken up by your phone ringing if you drop below a certain level.<a href="http://www.ambrosiasys.com" target="_blank">www.ambrosiasys.com</a> sell, for £96 one-off cost, a bluetooth transmitter called blucon nightrider, pic below. The founder used to work for Abbott. It's small, the same height as 2 libre sensors on top of each other, and a couple of mm wider. Not waterproof, so needs to be put on top of the sensor with an armband or sticking plaster to remove for showers, or heat seal it in a small sous-vide bag. Reads the sensor every 5 mins and bluetooths it to your phone.Their own inhouse app, linkblucon, isn't much cop, but a free third party android app, xDrip+, initially developed for dexcom, and now capable of taking data from blucon, is a work of art. Hypo/hyper alerts, calibration, fast fall/rise alerts, bolus/insulin predictions, agp graphs, statistics, standard deviation, smartwatch integration. Lots of stuff. Pic of the graph below.Libre is great on its own but cgm'ing it with blucon and xDrip+ takes it into a different league. The transmitter is pretty solid - had mine for almost a year now, still going fine, just need to change the cheap cr2032 battery every few weeks. There's quite a few of us using it now.The lead developer is called jamorham, here's his main page where xdrip+ can be downloaded:<a href="https://jamorham.github.io" target="_blank">https://jamorham.github.io</a>Yes, I know, it a looks a bit sketchy Heath Robinson, but it works.[ATTACH=full]26117[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]26118[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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