I just set up a Sugar Pixel. Two pieces of information I really like:
I’d like to have this info easily shown to me on my phone, or, better yet, on my Apple Watch. Does anyone know an app that shows either of those things?
(I realize there’s info on the Dexcom app that would allow me to figure out these things, but I want to see them displayed.)
Sugarmate might give you want you are looking for. It uses the Calendar app to send info to the Apple Watch. Sugarmate gets its info from Dexcom so you do need to continue to have the Dexcom app on your phone. Having my Dexcom linked to Sugarmate and my Calendar app also allows me to see my BG numbers on the screen in my car through Apple CarPlay. This setup is not completely trouble free but works most of the time.
From your screenshot that’s exactly what I’m looking for (time of last reading and numerical delta). Thank you!
There are times that the center calendar doesn’t give a number. Usually if you tap it, it will refresh and work. But I have the same thing with the Dexcom app. Tap it to open the app if there is not a number showing. Direct to Watch has helped with the Dexcom app but that can be quite unreliable since the sensor and Watch only communicate when they are close together. Right now my sensor is on my left thigh so it works well with the Watch on my left wrist. If the sensor is on the back of either arm, DTW is out of range a lot. The people who are happiest with DTW wear their sensors on their abdomen but that hasn’t been a good site for me.
Yes. I was excited about DTW, but it’s mostly been a disappointment because of the issue with the watch needing to be near the transmitter/sensor.
A little off topic, but I feel like Dexcom missed an opportunity with the G7. Since the transmitter battery only has to last 10 days, I feel it should be practicable for it to transmit more frequently and/or for longer and thereby increase the chance that the signal will be caught by DTW. As it is, if your watch is out of position at the moment when the transmission goes out, the watch won’t have a chance to receive it until the next reading 5 minutes later.
My phone and watch never noticeably lose connection and I wonder if that’s because the devices communicate frequently.
Addendum: there’s also the original Libre model where you place a reader up to the sensor and the reader “asks for” a reading from the sensor. It would be cool if you could hold a watch up to your sensor and ask for a reading rather than just hoping the watch will catch the reading but I suppose that would be a whole other layer of functionality that might require too much redesign.
Been following this so I could take a fresh look at the options. Sugarmate is interesting, looks like Tandem making them more of a division rather than a separate entity since their acquisition. On the upside Sugarmate no longer has to sell your health data to pay for operations and the other data they sell will mostly be to distributers aka DME companies. Downsides include Tandem is adding location data to what they collect. Tandem isn’t good at respecting patient access to their own data and reporting. There’s a saying something like “when the product is free you are the product.” Up to you if it matters. I’d try sugarmate if it also showed me rate of change.
Dexcom did something in the G7 to make bluetooth work better, told the FDA about it this summer so maybe DTW will be working better for most people by the end of the year once the supply chain is filled with the new version.