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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1799636" data-attributes="member: 374531">Yeah, the waterproof bit is attractive, although I see blucon is now offering a waterproof version as well. I wonder about the internal battery. I've had a few phones where, after a while, the battery seems to lose the ability to hold charge if it's been totally discharged too much, so I wonder if that will become an issue after a while. Although that was mainly phones from a few years back, so maybe battery technology has moved on.At the link below, the mm developers (posters birdfly and leoleezoom) contact the spike and xdrip developers (posters miguel kennedy, johan degraeve, jamorham and others) asking if they can be tweaked to work with mm. There's then several months of development discussions. The coding is was above me, I don't pretend to understand any of it, but there was a couple of things I took from it.First, it's still in development, and while they've certainly got it working in certain circumstances, I suppose it's one thing it working under "lab" conditions, another to have it working reliably across a range of phones. It's such a long thread I can't find the post now, but I recall one of the xdrip developers telling birdfly that there was a fairly fundamental issue which mm needed to sort or they would be swamped with user queries/complaints once it went live.Second, there was mention of them using cheap Chinese "clones", presumably some sort of circuit board. Again, I don't pretend to understand the technology, but it came across as a problem.Third, there was a bit talking about the importance of the "air gap", presumably the gap between the sensor and mm. It seemed that even a small change could glitch it. Again, fine in a lab, but in the real world, will that be a problem? Does it lose connection if you're flexing your arm too much and the air gap gets too big - I don't know.I recall when blucon first came out, before xdrip was tweaked to use it, their inhouse app went through a series of revisions. I suspect miaomiao will be the same. I'll probably buy one eventually out of curiousity but might a while until it's settled down. Teething problems seem to be inevitable with this sort of thing, and as blucon has been around for longer most of them have been ironed out, whereas mm is just starting out so there might be surprises ahead.<a href="https://gitter.im/miaomiaoSDK/Lobby" target="_blank">https://gitter.im/miaomiaoSDK/Lobby</a></blockquote>

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