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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1688166" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, queenofit, I see it's your first post, so welcome to the forum!</p><p></p><p>Can you use it with iPhone/Apple watch? Well, yes and no, kind of.</p><p></p><p>There's three bits involved: libre sensor, blucon transmitter, and the receiving app. All that the transmitter does is read the sensor every 5 mins and then bluetooths it to the app.</p><p></p><p>I'm running it on an android phone as the app I use to receive from the transmitter, xDrip+, is an android app and simply won't work on iPhone. I also send the results to a non-Apple smartwatch.</p><p></p><p>But, the blucon makers, Ambrosia Systems make an inhouse app called LinkBluCon. It has an ios version. I'm not familiar with ios, but if you have a look around wherever it is ios people get apps you'll probably find it.</p><p></p><p>There's some recent tweets from them showing it running on Apple watches:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/ambrosia_sys?lang=en" target="_blank">https://mobile.twitter.com/ambrosia_sys?lang=en</a></p><p></p><p>The problem, though, is that although Ambrosia have built a damned good transmitter, their app is kinda basic and nowhere near as good as xDrip+. I haven't looked at linkblucon for a while so don't know what the current state of play with it is - they'd been promising to introduce alerts, don't know if they've done it yet.</p><p></p><p>So, you will be able to use it on ios and apple watch but will have to rely on an app which is miles behind xdrip.</p><p></p><p>There is another option, though. There's a guy, Johan DeGraeve, developing an ios version of xdrip. Not being an ios user, I've no idea how good or bad it is but here's the link:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/JohanDegraeve" target="_blank">https://github.com/JohanDegraeve</a></p><p></p><p>The android set up definitely works well. You might lose the glam of your iPhone, but look on the bright side - you'll be using an extremely sophisticated app which is so underground that <em>it doesn't even have a wikipedia page </em>- how hip is that!?!</p><p></p><p>It's also good for winding up fitness watch owners. There's a couple at work who go on and on about how theirs measure heart rate, sleeping patterns etc etc, so it's always fun just chucking in, "does it tell you what your bg is? No? Mines does." </p><p></p><p>Have fun with it - it takes libre into a different league!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1688166, member: 374531"] Hi, queenofit, I see it's your first post, so welcome to the forum! Can you use it with iPhone/Apple watch? Well, yes and no, kind of. There's three bits involved: libre sensor, blucon transmitter, and the receiving app. All that the transmitter does is read the sensor every 5 mins and then bluetooths it to the app. I'm running it on an android phone as the app I use to receive from the transmitter, xDrip+, is an android app and simply won't work on iPhone. I also send the results to a non-Apple smartwatch. But, the blucon makers, Ambrosia Systems make an inhouse app called LinkBluCon. It has an ios version. I'm not familiar with ios, but if you have a look around wherever it is ios people get apps you'll probably find it. There's some recent tweets from them showing it running on Apple watches: [URL]https://mobile.twitter.com/ambrosia_sys?lang=en[/URL] The problem, though, is that although Ambrosia have built a damned good transmitter, their app is kinda basic and nowhere near as good as xDrip+. I haven't looked at linkblucon for a while so don't know what the current state of play with it is - they'd been promising to introduce alerts, don't know if they've done it yet. So, you will be able to use it on ios and apple watch but will have to rely on an app which is miles behind xdrip. There is another option, though. There's a guy, Johan DeGraeve, developing an ios version of xdrip. Not being an ios user, I've no idea how good or bad it is but here's the link: [URL]https://github.com/JohanDegraeve[/URL] The android set up definitely works well. You might lose the glam of your iPhone, but look on the bright side - you'll be using an extremely sophisticated app which is so underground that [I]it doesn't even have a wikipedia page [/I]- how hip is that!?! It's also good for winding up fitness watch owners. There's a couple at work who go on and on about how theirs measure heart rate, sleeping patterns etc etc, so it's always fun just chucking in, "does it tell you what your bg is? No? Mines does." Have fun with it - it takes libre into a different league! [/QUOTE]
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