Audio readout of IOB?

Diabetes Technology
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Tech folks:

I use a Dexcom G7, Tandem t:slim, and iPhone.

Particularly when I am driving alone, I like to be able to ask; “Hey Siri, what is my glucose?” and learn that it is “150 and rising slowly”.

However, I would REALLY like to ask the follow-up question: “Hey Siti, what is my IOB?”

To the best of my knowledge, the Yandem t:slim mobile app doesn’t have an action to return that information.

Does anyone know of another app or technique that would allow an audio readout of IOB?

Thanks for your consideration.

John

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I would LOVE to have that feature for the same reason—long road trips when I can’t safely look at my phone or pump—and afaik the answer is no. Question of what data fields the pump exposes to the phone interface, and I suppose they also don’t want Apple to become a total replacement for their own proprietary monitoring software. Similar to the fact that you can use your phone to bolus but not send other instructions to the pump, like Stop/Start Insulin and the like. Probably more to it than that—all these changes are subject to FDA oversight. At least for now.

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Try using Siri to turn on voice control then use voice control to open the tslim app and read screen.

If you want to do it as a single voice command that speaks the IOB only try building a shortcut. I don’t have a tslim but maybe something like this…

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I’ve tried figuring out a regex to get the line after Board but I haven’t succeeded yet. Maybe @DrBB or his wife would be willing to help. The regex engine might be ICS and there’s a shortcut action called Show Result if it helps to see the input to the Match action.

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Chris:

Thank you for your thoughts. That certainly gives me some things to try. While I am old and hopelessly out of date, in my dim, dark past I did have some experience with regular expressions … probably starting about 1975!

For any tech old timers, I used regular expressions in:

  1. eMacs macros (eMacs was a once popular text editor).

  2. Unix string and CSV extraction tools like ‘aek’and ‘grep’.

  3. The Perl scripting language and the C programming language.

But, I’m going to see if I can make any progress on your suggestions and will report back …

Thanks for the tips.

John

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