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Sound on alarms and loss of signal during night

Geminigirl

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Hi all,
I finally upgraded my mobile so I have installed Librelink on it and it's sucessfully working as a cgm.

I have also given permission to my Diabetic Clinic at the hospital to view my info, so am pleased with that.

I am really appreciating the data and think it will much more helpful than the reader.

I have a couple of questions though, hope you can help.

1. Overnight I turn the sound off and volume down on my phone because I'm a light sleeper and all the notifications on my other apps are a pain. So, if I have the libre alarms switched to on will they override the system anyway like my clock alarm does?

2. Also, I'm concerned that although I have my phone next to me on the bedside table can it keep contact with the sensor while your arm is under the covers, or you're lying on it facing away from the phone?

Might sound silly but I'm due to change from a mixed insulin, (Humulin M3) to a basal/bolus regime, so I suppose I'm more concerned about hypos overnight while I adjust.

Any tips would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Hi not sure what phone you have but I’m guessing when you put your phone on silent mode ( turning sound off ) you won’t hear your alarms. Being under the covers shouldn’t stop you hearing your alarms .
 
You must keep the sound on for alarms. Plus be aware that if an alarm sounds it will only do so the once. For example above 10 (or wherever your high alarm is set) alarm sounds. It keeps rising but no more alarms. Unless it dips back down below 10 and then goes back up. It will then alarm again. Same the other end with lows.
Your phone alerts can be set to off separately. For instance I permanently have WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook on silent because notifications drive me potty. As for other, like texts and calls you can set your phone to be silent between say 10pm and 7am. I have done this but my Libre alarms still alert and believe me I have never slept through one yet, they are extremely loud and piercing. I don’t have issues with it losing signal either. Just occasionally I have compression lows from lying on it if I haven’t placed my sensor in a good enough position. But haven’t had one in ages.
 
You don't say what type of phone you have.
For Android the normal way of 'silencing' the phone is to enable 'Do not Disturb' rather than turning the sound down. (If you want, you can enable this automatically at night and disable in the morning). The LibreLink app should then be given permission to override this setting and also the individual alarms can be set to override this setting.

> 2. Also, I'm concerned that although I have my phone next to me on the bedside table can it keep contact with the sensor while your arm is under the covers, or you're lying on it facing away from the phone?

Shouldn't be a problem losing the signal. My phone is usually able to keep the signal when I am in the next room.
Lying on the sensor can cause problems but not because it blocks the signal. Rather it can causes false lows alarms to go off (called 'compressions lows').
 
Ushthetaff said:
Hi not sure what phone you have but I’m guessing when you put your phone on silent mode ( turning sound off ) you won’t hear your alarms. Being under the covers shouldn’t stop you hearing your alarms .
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Thanks, I have an Android
 
Thankyou, I'll have a look, I'm a bit of a duff with new tech lol. I'll try just turning off the other notification alarms, they are irritating, even during the day!

Interesting the alarms only sound once. Worth knowing.
 
Thankyou for your advice. I'll have an experiment.
 

I have an Apple Watch & iPhone. I wear my watch at night & the alarm “taps” me on the wrist so I keep the phone on silent.
 
I sometimes have gaps in my trace overnight where I have laid for long periods on whichever arm my sensor happens to be.

I don't know why, but my phone (Galaxy S23 Ultra) will not receive alarms/alert whilst in Do Not Disturb. At night I turn my phone from sound to vibrate and this wakes me in the night if need be. I prefer to use Diabox, as the alarms do work when phone is in DND mode, although I'm having an issue with Diabox at the moment.

My phone loses connection too during the night and during the day. My phone is currently 12-14 inches away from me with no obstructions, and it has lost signal. It's bloody infuriating when it is supposed to be a constantly monitoring system. Lets hope the Libre 2+ improves things.
 
Not relevant to the phone bit, but thank you for this - keep getting low glucose alarms overnight since I put this sensor on, but when I finger-prick, I'm absolutely fine. Newly diagnosed, and didn't know about the compression thing. I was wondering, but this makes sense so thank you!
 
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