I'm getting interested in the blucon... I guess the novelty of Libre is over.
Hi, Gavin, I've used the blucon a bit more now, on the last four days of my current sensor. It's been fairly close to bg test, often more so than the reader. The blucon people came up with their own algorithm, so the different readings are down to that.
I think I've used it now for ten days or so across 2 sensors and apart from a couple of real glitchy days it's been ok.
To be honest, although the libre is great, that whole business of having to take the reader out and actually scan it is seeming a bit passe now! It's maybe just the novelty value, but it's kinda groovy just looking at my phone once in a while. It also shows the last result in the notification window. The graph ain't that great as it expands and contracts to have lower and upper limits set to your lowest and highest readings over the time period, so if you've been between say 4 and 6.5 over three hours it's still going to look really stabby even though 2.5 is not a big shift.
However, the history tab is surprisingly useful, just a list of readings taken every five minutes. Let's face it, even keen scanners don't scan every five minutes, whereas this does and then lists them. I'm finding that just looking at a list of numbers is giving me a better picture of how I'm moving than the scanner graph does.
All in all, if you like new toys to play with, it's worth a punt, although I've certainly not got to the stage yet where I'd bolus from it as I was doing with the reader.