![]() Opening the LibreLink app before you scan the Sensor sometimes skips the dialog but not every time. You need to look at the phone, choose the LibreLink app, and then rescan your sensor. You can’t see the dialog when you hold it up to the back of your arm, however. You’ll get the dialog shown below every time you scan the sensor.Īndroid dialog prompts for which NFC-capable app to use. For example, the Samsung Health app will conflict with the LibreLink app. On Android, you may run into problems if you’ve got other NFC-capable apps installed on your phone. It also doesn’t work if the phone is set to silent mode. However, it isn’t enabled by default and it requires you to dig deep into system settings. Update ( ): LibreLink version 2.4.0 for Android includes a work-around for triggering alarms when the device is in do-not-disturb mode. You can’t accidentally silence it by holding the volume down button pressed for five seconds like you can on Android, either. You can technically silence the alarms on the Reader too, but you’d never venture into the menus to turn it off as you might do with your smartphone. This limitation is probably the best reason to use the Reader instead of the app. Depending on your phone model and settings, this may let the app bypass silent mode. ![]() You may be able to configure the alerts from the LibreLink app as critical. Your phone may automatically enable silent mode at night to help ensure you get fewer notifications and more sleep. The alarms don’t go off if you’ve set your phone to silent or do-not-disturb mode. Both the app and Reader will annoyingly trigger the alarm even if you just scanned and got a low or high reading less than 20 seconds earlier. It can sometimes take up to an hour after glucose levels have left the target range before the alarm triggers. You don’t want this option enabled! It goes off all the time even when your phone or the Reader is less than a meter apart. You can enable an option in the Reader or app that will alert you every time they lose contact with the Sensor. That being said, the critical level alarms aren’t completely reliable. However, I’ll feel better the next day having corrected high levels early than if I’d gotten a bit more sleep with the high levels. It may admittedly be a bit annoying to be woken up to deal with high glucose levels. I sleep better at night knowing it will set off an alarm if my glucose levels dip to critical levels while I sleep. This has some potential privacy implications but can be a literal life-saver and help you better maintain your glucose levels. The app is well designed compared to something like the Contour Diabetes app.īoth your smartphone and Reader can also receive glucose level alerts over Bluetooth transmitted by the Sensor. This limitation is more understandable on the less capable Reader. It feels natural to do so but it’s not supported. My one big complaint about the app is that you can’t zoom and pan the graphs. You also get historical graphs and daily averages. Your experience and feature availability in other regions may vary wildly.īoth the reader and LibreLink app give you glucose level trends along with your current glucose level. I’ve been using the Norwegian edition of the Android version of the LibreLink app. Abbott ships different versions of the app in different regions to comply with different regulatory requirements. ![]() You need to install the FreeStyle LibreLink app (Android or iOS versions available) to scan the FreeStyle Libre Sensor. Your experiences using either device should be similar assuming your phone has an okay NFC-antenna. ![]() Some phones have tiny short-range NFC antennas that make scanning the sensor a pain. The Reader has a big NFC antenna and can easily pick up the signal from the sensor. I want to discuss the pros and cons of using the dedicated FreeStyle Libre 2 Reader device versus an NFC-capable smartphone. I’ve previously shared my experiences on what it’s like to wear the sensor (with photos of the Libre Sensor.) The system can get up to eight hours of glucose readings by scanning an NFC sensor installed on the back of your upper arm. I’ve used the FreeStyle Libre 2 (“FreeStyle Libre 14-days” in some regions) flash glucose monitoring system for a year.
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