SCANNING FOR READINGS ON SMART PHONE

[Jaylee]

So is this new soft ware? Mine is not Libre 2+, but is Libre 2?

Hi,

From what I know it’s an update to the existing app to accommodate the 2+?
I’ve got the update but it still works with Libre 2. (Which I’m still using.)
I’ve had no issues.

If you are just scanning with the phone & app?
You do need to hold the NFC aerial longer to the sensor giving it longer to transfer & fill in the data..
Making that 3 note triad tune & showing the latest number..
Say I hadn’t scanned for a few hours..?

Which is why I prefer the BT connection to my phone after initial set up..

If the sensor is started with the reader? I don’t think it will register with the phone & app..?..?

 

[Jaylee]

Keep forgetting not august yet libre2 in UK should be discontinued by then think same for some other countries (if not all) too

Freestyle Libre 2 Plus Sensor

Meet the FreeStyle Libre 2
Plus sensor. Our first 15-day sensor and the latest innovation for the FreeStyle Libre 2 continuous glucose monitoring system.

www.freestyle.abbott

Lol, my surgery notified & changed my prescription 5 months ago to Libre 2+.
I was assured also it would work with the app via text with this notifacation.
No problem.

But the chemist still issues Libre 2s.
Oddly the Abbott app’s new build suggests my L2 sensor will finish in 15 days on my phone..
Even the 3rd party app I use puts an end date in my diary to the hour started to the day after the L2 actually ends..

Still no issue. I remember “bin put out day” every 2 weeks..

 

[grantg]

Lol, my surgery notified & changed my prescription 5 months ago to Libre 2+.
I was assured also it would work with the app via text with this notifacation.
No problem.

But the chemist still issues Libre 2s.
Oddly the Abbott app’s new build suggests my L2 sensor will finish in 15 days on my phone..
Even the 3rd party app I use puts an end date in my diary to the hour started to the day after the L2 actually ends..

Still no issue. I remember “bin put out day” every 2 weeks..

does ur chemist reorder them for you? perhaps they tick the libre2 box rather than the libre2+ box and both maybe listed on the repeat ?

my repeat has both novarapid and fiasp for insulin.. (bear in mind im using NEITHER at present) also have both toujeo and humalin even thou never picked up a humalin prescription - and currently no longer take toujeo either (short term will be back insulin after honeymoon period ends).

 

[LionChild]

Hi,

From what I know it’s an update to the existing app to accommodate the 2+?
I’ve got the update but it still works with Libre 2. (Which I’m still using.)
I’ve had no issues.

If you are just scanning with the phone & app?
You do need to hold the NFC aerial longer to the sensor giving it longer to transfer & fill in the data..
Making that 3 note triad tune & showing the latest number..
Say I hadn’t scanned for a few hours..?

Which is why I prefer the BT connection to my phone after initial set up..

If the sensor is started with the reader? I don’t think it will register with the phone & app..?..?

Yes, I seem to remember trying to engage with this Libre 2+, but when I realised that if I started my sensor by scanning with the meter (or reader,), then I could not use the function with my phone? (or was it the other way round?) Anyway, I think that decided me not to go forward with it because the interface is obviously more comprehensive on the phone....and I find the reader works so much easier than the phone as I have outlined. Also, I do not always take my phone with me when I go out - so that would not be practical for me.... But if, as someone just pointed out, Libre 2 is to be ended in August, what then for those people who want to use Libre without this continuous monitoring thingy? I may not have all my ducks in a row here?

 

[Jaylee]

does ur chemist reorder them for you? perhaps they tick the libre2 box rather than the libre2+ box and both maybe listed on the repeat ?

my repeat has both novarapid and fiasp for insulin.. (bear in mind im using NEITHER at present) also have both toujeo and humalin even thou never picked up a humalin prescription - and currently no longer take toujeo either (short term will be back insulin after honeymoon period ends).

It’s a sort of “batch repeat.” Ordered directly from the chemist?
I get a review from time to time? “Are you still needing insulin?” Yep.. “OK, lovely cheers!” Lol, they always seem embarrassed to ask?
I had a text notification of a change to L2+ almost insistent in tone it would work on my app & phone then my prescription was amended at the same time.
I’m not that bothered they still give me the L2. It has always worked great for me..

Yes, I seem to remember trying to engage with this Libre 2+, but when I realised that if I started my sensor by scanning with the meter (or reader,), then I could not use the function with my phone? (or was it the other way round?) Anyway, I think that decided me not to go forward with it because the interface is obviously more comprehensive on the phone....and I find the reader works so much easier than the phone as I have outlined. Also, I do not always take my phone with me when I go out - so that would not be practical for me.... But if, as someone just pointed out, Libre 2 is to be ended in August, what then for those people who want to use Libre without this continuous monitoring thingy? I may not have all my ducks in a row here?

I feel if the Abbot reader works for you.
Then don’t change what is comfortable with your lifestyle.

I’ve always carried my phone. It’s just “there” in a designated pocket? (I’ve never had a reader. But what I know is once the sensor is tethered to a device, it won’t work with the other?)
It sends my BGs from my phone to a smartwatch too. (Though, my watch can also pick up the sensor without the phone.)
The watch is what I reference rather than pulling out my phone.
Unless I’m logging my insulin dose with my NFC enabled Novopen..

What I do know is my phone will upload the data about every 20 minutes to “Libreview” online for any carer or DSN?
I believe the Abbott reader needs to be plugged into a USB port to do so?