Freeing Glucose Data from Freestyle

Freeing Glucose Data from Freestyle(frdmtoplay.com)

10 points by InGoldAndGreen 1 year ago | 4 comments

Very useful guide. I'm incredibly frustrated by how Libre shows more effort put into preventing others from building a similar app instead of just building a good app in the first place.

They could make so many people so happy if they just gave us a damn good app.

I also can't see how this benefits them at all - their app isn't tied into monetisation, it's free to download (replacing their own chargeable reader!), and it doesn't work at all without a sensor (the paid component).

The only reasons I can think of are: - legal restrictions on them as a healthcare provider? - preventing users from jailbreaking it to work longer (honestly people only do this if they legitimately can't afford a new one) - they want user data for monetisable purposes

Thoughts?

InGoldAndGreen 1 year ago | |

Meanwhile Dexcomm happily outsources it all: https://www.dexcom.com/partnerships/digital-health-apps?prod...

Projectiboga 1 year ago | | |

I've used both systems. Each have annoyances. The Dexcom system can't be silenced and has an insane unstoppable firm "your sensor will expire in 6 hours", so unless you reset your sensor in the afternoon or evening this will wake you up and has woken me up at 4AM. I had to hide the Dexcom sensor in a watertight cigarette case to silennce the alarms. Both brands mobile apps hold you hostage and will not allow going do not disturb. I'm currently on Freestyle 2 with their own reader, which is silencible and I use a third party app Juggluco from some Dutch Diabetic. That app is quiet and gets realtime readings via bluetooth, it flakes out some times but it is great to have a second reader. Juggluco also gives me a bonus extra 12 hours at the end of the sensor life, so I'm slowly building up a reserve in days and eventually will have an extra sensor in que. https://www.juggluco.nl/Juggluco/index.html