Make sure you have Libre 2 sensors. Not the Libre 1 sensors.
Make sure you have Libre 2 sensors. Not the Libre 1 sensors.This afternoon I’ve updated to iOS 16.6 with Shuggah disabled, and I’m afraid Libre still does not work except to scan! I have now had to reactivate Shuggah which is working perfectly. I have turned off Bluetooth for Libre and will just scan and use Libre at least once every 8 hours. This is easy to remember, because I still enter my insulin doses, carb intake and exercise in Libre, always doing a scan at this time. Now that I know how to adjust the alarms in Shuggah (where you can actually add extra alarms if you wish) I will choose to make Shuggah my main app and use Libre just where I have to for the sake of data going to LibreView which does give amazing detail. The bonus of having regular readings display on my watch is too helpful to ignore. Did you delete Shuggah before doing the iOS update? I will be interested in whether your alarms go off when you are driving because I think over the last few weeks, when Libre was working correctly, the alarms did not go off on my phone when I was driving, but they did send a notification to my watch and show the reading! This is still not as good as getting regular readings on my watch like I do from Shuggah. I am also still finding Shuggah gives more accurate readings than Libre which continues to be around 0.8/1.5 above finger pricks which can suggest your BG control is not as good as it actually is. Before the crash, Libre suggested by HbA1c was 6.0 when a blood test for the same 90 days showed it to be 5.3.
To answer my own question. No this is not the end of physically scanning as the update only streams continuous readings and does not save them to the log book. Only scanned readings are logged, streamed readings are not logged, shared, or saved.that next time I apply a sensor I will receive continuous updates.. Hooray!!
Is this really the end of physically scanning the sensor folks? I had no idea that was coming!
I have read a few times how scanning the sensor uploads the readings.To answer my own question. No this is not the end of physically scanning as the update only streams continuous readings and does not save them to the log book. Only scanned readings are logged, streamed readings are not logged, shared, or saved.
To answer my own question. No this is not the end of physically scanning as the update only streams continuous readings and does not save them to the log book. Only scanned readings are logged, streamed readings are not logged, shared, or saved.
becca59 If you put it like that then of course it cannot log continuous streaming but do tell me more about the graph sharing?No but the graph is. And readings were never saved before unless you scanned. It records a reading when you input insulin/food.
How could it possibly log continuous streaming. And why would you need it to.
In truth, The email from Abbott is nonsense. Please read all of the posts about this. the latest version of the app did not work for many members. It only started working correctly for me when my phone updated its iOS. From what I see in this string there are still many people suffering problems.Not sure if anyone else has put this but Abbott we’re having issues with a version of their app rather the latest iOS release.
They have suggested downloading the latest app to resolve your problems.
Email from Abbott
Thank you for being one of our valued FreeStyle LibreLink app users.
We’re pleased to inform you a new version of the FreeStyle LibreLink app for iOS (2.10.1) is now available for download in the United Kingdom iOS App Store. Please upgrade your FreeStyle LibreLink app for iOS to version 2.10.1 as soon as possible. After download, please check your alarm settings and any insulin pen connections, and sign back into your LibreView account to re-establish any connections.
This new version of the FreeStyle LibreLink app (2.10.1) fixes the issue with the previous version (2.10) and includes automatic real-time glucose readings for people who use FreeStyle Libre 2.
I like to be around 7 mmol/ml when I want to drive and I follow the DoT guidance about not driving if the BG drops below 5. As far as your watch is concerned; if it is like mine it receives notifications from the phone provided Librelink is set to send notifications to the home screen. The app for my watch is set to send all notifications from "other apps" so as soon as texts, emails and Libre alarms appear on the phone home screen there is a vibration from my watch and the notification shows up on its screen. I hope that that helps.That is good to know, I’m pleased that at least the alarms are showing on your watch. Like you, I am very careful about driving. When my Libre alarms were working, it was the high alarm I ‘played’ with, setting it quite low as a test, 7.7. A while back this alarm was sounding on my phone while driving, but I’m sure more recently I was getting a notification on my watch but no sound from the phone. I viewed this is an improvement because the alarm would go off every five minutes when it was sounding on the phone and that was obviously irritating, although it did make sure I pulled over to reset it. I was doing this more out of curiosity. What level do you aim for before driving and what level do you aim not to drop below while driving?
Yet again, I’m much the same as you. I like to be at least 7 mmol/L but possibly 8/9 if I know I’m going to be driving for over an hour, especially if it’s on a motorway and particularly the M25, which has few service areas and you often spend lots of time in queues. I then set my Shuggah low alarm to 6 and have easily accessible juice in a measured carton that I can drink easily while driving, which I know will generally raise me 2/3 mmol/L in around 20/30 minutes. Having five minute updates on my watch via Shuggah makes this kind of control so much easier. Like you, my watch vibrates whenever the notification comes through. If Libre could provide this, then I would definitely uninstall Shuggah and just use the new Libre app. For the present, especially as I have to drive over 500 miles in the next week, I’m going to continue with Libre Bluetooth turned off and Shuggah turned on, especially as I have found that scanning still works, and the data is uploaded to LibreView. I’m still entering all my carbs, insulin and exercise into the Libre logbook.I like to be around 7 mmol/ml when I want to drive and I follow the DoT guidance about not driving if the BG drops below 5. As far as your watch is concerned; if it is like mine it receives notifications from the phone provided Librelink is set to send notifications to the home screen. The app for my watch is set to send all notifications from "other apps" so as soon as texts, emails and Libre alarms appear on the phone home screen there is a vibration from my watch and the notification shows up on its screen. I hope that that helps.
It doesn't save every minute to the logbook, but every time you look at the App and/or scan, the level will be recorded. When you look at LibreView online, (you can do this on your phone and/or computer/tablet, whatever), you will see a dot for every time you interacted with the App, but only the actual scans will show a figure. Annoying as I keep within a quite small range (14%), but I am learning to relax about the exact figures now, as they probably aren't that accurate anyway.To answer my own question. No this is not the end of physically scanning as the update only streams continuous readings and does not save them to the log book. Only scanned readings are logged, streamed readings are not logged, shared, or saved.
The sharing with LibreView from your phone is automated.and have lost all the history that was held on my iPhone, as I have not been sharing it on the LibreView.
When I had both LibreLink and Shuggah, running side-by-side, both with Bluetooth turned on, when a LibreLink alarm sounded it also showed on my Garmin smartwatch, along with the actual reading at the time of the alarm. It also identified whether it was a high or low alarm. I did not get any other readings from LibreLink, but I was getting readings from Shuggah at the interval that I had set within the app, which was every 5 minutes. Since then, I have been unable to run those apps together with Bluetooth turned on and because I was doing a lot of driving, I have been running LibreLink with Bluetooth turned off and Shuggah with it turned on. LibreLink continues to work via scanning, obviously with no alarms, while Shuggah has worked perfectly giving me the data I want on my smartwatch. I am due a sensor change on Sunday and I’m debating whether to remove Shuggah completely and just run LibreLink which I assume will then give CGM readings and allow alarms to work. If, as I suspect, I cannot get regular readings from LibreLink on my smartwatch I will have to decide whether to return to the situation I have got used to while driving a lot.I've changed the sensor today and as far as I can tell LibreLink is working properly. On another forum thread on this site I saw mention of Abbott having further modified LibreLink so that the CGM readings from the sensor can be read on a smartwatch. This would be similar to Shuggah. Has anyone heard or read anything about this?
Of course nobody mindsHi all,
Here’s what I do. I discovered Shuggah in may before all the libre app problems and haven’t looked back since but I have the best of both worlds….
1) I activate every new sensor with the libre reader.
2) I then make sure blue tooth is “on” the libre app on my phone and start the sensor on the phone as well.
I’ve always activated my sensors using the libre reader and had my alarms on there, not on my libre app on my phone.
3) when the sensor has gone through its hour warm up I start a new sensor on Shuggah
This has always gone very smoothly but the key is waiting patiently for the status to turn to “connected”. It can be an anxious few minutes wait but it does it.
4) when I get a Shuggah reading I then go back to libre on iphone and knock blue tooth off so the Shuggah receiver is not fighting with the libre Bluetooth.
I then get Shuggah readings every minute on my phone and Apple Watch, as well as the ability to manually scan with either the reader (helpful in the middle of the night as it’s quicker than phone), or app on my iPhone. All I have to do is make sure I scan every 8 hours at least on my phone to join up all the graphs. All the data still pops through to the main libre view website even when the Bluetooth is “off” on libre.
I find the alarms are much better on Shuggah as you can change the parameters a lot more. But I do still like to look at the graphs on libre as when I’m troubleshooting I find them easier to navigate.
But I’ve never had to keep deleting and reinstalling the app or faffing around. And when everyone was getting the white screen of death with the update, it fortunately didn’t do anything at all to any of my set up but really did feel all of your pain!
Finally, when it comes to the changeover, I go into Shuggah and tell it to disconnect. I then go back into my iPhone and put Bluetooth back on libre, and then go back to step 1 and start all over again for the next two weeks.
I’ve never lost data, or had a problem and I’ve had it set up since mid may. In fact, the whole thing has transformed my mindset and my control. My Hba1c has come down from 66 to 58 in the same 3 months timeframe.
I also agree with what a lot of other people have been saying about the Shuggah algorithm - it’s much more accurate and in line with finger prick tests that the scan of the libre.
Hope nobody minds me putting my two penneth in. I’m not that techy so apologies if I’ve said the obvious.
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