It works! Took a bit of faffing around to get it paired with the phone, but, yep, I'm getting regular readings every five minutes pushed to my phone in either a graph form or a list.
The interesting thing is that while I've sometimes been frustrated by the divergence between reader scans and my One Touch Verio IQ meter readings, the results I'm getting through the blucon are actually much closer to the meter than the reader is, although, admittedly, that's just based on two meter tests so far. I suppose it also begs a lot of questions about how accurate my meter is - some reviews of the Verio say it runs higher than other meters. Suppose I should get some control solution for it, although I cannot for the life of me see anywhere on the vials or packaging of the strips what the control range is.
I can still scan with the reader if I want to.
I was a bit hesitant to try it straight away seeing as my sensor has still got 11 days left, was worried in case it broke it, but no problem, seems to be that you can take it on and off as you see fit, so not like librelink where you have to initiate it within sixty minutes of reader activation.
I pre-ordered it purely because it said it would alert for out of range, but then they posted a few days later to say that won't be for a while! They've not said when that will be. I assume it will just be a software upgrade rather than buying a new device.
So, it's not got alarms at the moment, which is frustrating seeing as that was the only reason I bought the damned thing, so will just have to wait and see. I'm speculating that if it has alarms it will be a medical device as opposed to just an nfc reader with bluetooth, and there might then be approval/authorisation issues with the medical authorities They got back to me quite quickly on another issue, so I'll maybe e-mail them again to ask about time scales for alerts.There's certainly demand for alarms - the plaintive cries on their facebook page copied below made me laugh! I imagine there's probably a few app developers out there already trying to hack an alarm.
I agree the price of the Trans Am is crazy, I would never pay that. The Nighrider version cost about £110 and then I had to pay £25 import tax. It's not waterproof, but that doesn't matter to me as the intention really was just to wear it overnight to get alarms for night hypos and take it off for showers.
The only bits which aren't waterproof seem to be the on off hole and the battery cover. But that could be sorted by putting some waterproof tape over it, although having waited this long for it to arrive, I'm not going to chance my luck.
I bought a running armband with a pocket, but it was too fiddly, so, recalling post #38 , it's sitting there quite happily with a bit of masking tape holding it on. I'll know soon whether I'm allergic to masking tape or not!
It's not that big, marginally wider than the sensor, but obviously standing a bit prouder than the sensor alone, so I'll need to be more careful taking shirts on and off.
So, absent the alarms, Ive not quite dex'd my libre yet, but if they eventually get round to alarms, I'll be happy with it. Lack of alarms for night hypos is really the only thing missing from libre, so if these boys can get that fixed, I reckon there'll be pretty high demand for it.
Am tagging @BeccyB as I recall from another thread she had pre-ordered one.