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TEST DRAFT (not final) NEWS From Loop and Learn
- LnL Speaker Series
- "loop-friendly" Provider Resource
- Apple's New Releases
- Important for Heroku Users
- Railway
- FreeAPS X Discord Channel
- LnL Pro Tip
- YouTube Replay: IFTTT
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Loop and Learn Speaker Series continues with more exciting talks about enhanced technology use!
- Loop Follow, SugarPixel and More with Jon Fawcett, founder of CustomTypeOne on Sunday, 2 October 2022
5pm PT / 8pm ET - Gluroo by Greg J. Badros on Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET [Note - the new date]
- Diabetes Cockpit, by developer Lukas Schuster, Date and Time are TBD
Add these to your calendar and stay tuned for future events.
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Loop Follow, SugarPixel and More with Jon Fawcett, founder of Custom Type One
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Sunday, 2 October 2022
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Zoom or
YouTube LiveStream
Jon Fawcett is the founder and CEO of Fuse Chicken and Custom Type One. Jon has over 20 years of experience designing and engineering products for some of the world’s leading companies - ranging from the toy industry to high-security commercial devices.
“My daughter was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes at age 12. Since then, the improvement in technology to simplify and improve her day-to-day management has been drastic. With each new device or technology, there has been a new need introduced. Cases, holders, lanyards, clips, and bags are needed to carry, protect, and use the devices; and new apps and services help to connect all the technology together.”
Jon has more ideas than time to work on these exciting and empowering projects, such as
- SugarSafe Drive, an app about how to keep a teen driver safer. It is hands-free with gentler spoken alerts and includes a bright red EMS screen with customizable text for urgent low/high situations.
- The Loop patch, including a recent add-on called Basal Lock, which prevents Loop from reducing or suspending basal if BG is higher than a threshold that you set.
- SugarPixel enhancements include
- full backend cloud database
- push notifications servers
- emergency phone calls to know if the PWD has taken action and snoozed the alert. For example: if you have a child living in a college dorm, you can set the emergency phone call to happen only if the alert hasn’t been snoozed on SugarPixel after 5 minutes.
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Gluroo with Greg J. Badros, Ph.D, CEO of Gluroo
The Diabetes Logging app that makes managing diabetes as easy as messaging
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NEW DATE:
Sunday, 9 October 2022
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Zoom or
YouTube LiveStream
Gluroo is inspired by the simplicity of group messaging, where all the members of a GluCrew communicate in a shared messaging application just like texting. Layered on top of that are integrations to support diabetes care more directly, including reading Dexcom or Libre CGM sensors, automatically synchronizing with DIY Loop and Omnipod Dash and the OP5, writing data to Nightscout, scanning QR codes from packaging to facilitate reporting bad sensors, and more.
Gluroo also adds a patent-pending smart alerting system and an AI-driven Natural Language Processing engine to make logging crazy fast and easy. Gluroo has grown to be a comprehensive diabetes management platform. This talk will focus on the integrations with looping solutions that provide valuable second-screen capabilities when your GluCrew's Person with Diabetes isn't at your side.
Greg Badros, who developed Gluroo, is a T1Dad since February 2020 when his 10-year-old was diagnosed. Right away, Greg realized that Diabetes is best handled as a team sport and looked for apps to help manage the continuous care and logging that would benefit his son. While there were lots of choices, none supported his family's needs well. Greg knew he could build something better and in August 2020, Gluroo was born.
About the Presenter: Greg earned B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Duke University, and a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Washington in Computer Science and Engineering. He had a successful career in high-tech having worked on Excel at Microsoft and led the GMail and Ads teams at Google and the Ads, Search, and other product teams at Facebook. He now is CEO for Gluroo, working with a small team and dogfooding Gluroo every day with his family. ("Dogfooding" is the practice of using one's own products or services.”)
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Please Help Us Build the “loop- friendly” Provider Resource!
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Is your endocrinologist/healthcare team looper-friendly or even a looping expert?
Thank you to our many friends who have contributed to our list of Loop-friendly providers... we have almost 200 on our list already!
We are excited to share this excellent resource and encourage you to add your provider's name to the list (and tell us about them) if you have not yet.
With almost 6,000 members, certainly more have providers that we can add to the list to benefit our community (as well as the providers). Please use this form to add yours today!
We update the list regularly, and post it on the Loop and Learn website … plus it lives under Files in our FB group. Click on the link below to add your provider's information and/or review the list.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING
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Apple Update: iOS16.0.1 and Xcode 14.0.1 are now released!
Several versions of iOS 16 and Xcode 14 are now released. Loop, Loop-dev, FreeAPS, FreeAPS_dev, several versions of FreeAPS-X, as well as LoopFollow have been built using Xcode 14.x and iOS 16. Xcode 14.x requires macOS Monterey 12.5 or greater.
This is NOT A RECOMMENDATION to load iOS 16.x on your real phone - there are often quick fixes that come out the first few weeks of a major update.
There is an iOS 15.7 version that can be selected when you go to update your phone. You are not forced to go to iOS 16. To build Loop to an iOS 15.7 phone, you'll need to use Xcode 13.4.1 or 14.0.1. You CANNOT build to an iOS 15.7 phone (for the first time) using Xcode 14.
iOS 15.7 is the only iOS update option for those who have an iPhone 6s, 7 or 1st generation iPhone SE. Apple has announced they will not support those phones with iOS 16. But you can still build loop code with iOS 15 and those phones.
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Important Notice for Nightscout Users:
Heroku's Upcoming Changes
On August 25, Heroku announced that it is shutting down its free service level that many of us use for Nightscout hosting. Thank you to Heroku, which has allowed NS to thrive in their environment for YEARS, essentially supporting this community to the value of millions of dollars.
You can read their full posting by clicking the link below.
Users will have until November 28 to decide how they want to proceed. We will update you as more options become available, but for now, your options are to:
- Railway app ($5 or less per month)
- Pay for hosting at Heroku, (around $7 per month),
- Migrate to another hosting service such as Digital Ocean (around $5 per month),
- Subscribe to T1Pal, or
- Subscribe to ns10.be
More details about #1 are provided below. #2 is currently the simplest option; it takes only 5 minutes and you can easily change at a later date as other options are tested. Both of the subscription services listed in #4 and #5 above support Remote Overrides for Loop-master users. If Loop Dev's Remote Carbs and Remote Bolus features are important to you, please contact the service provider to confirm that it meets your needs before switching. And the #WeAreNotWaiting family is still evaluating options; to be added to the Nightscout Documentation later.
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Nightscout Migration from Heroku to Railway:
Beta Testers Needed
The community has been working on an alternative to Heroku and has identified Railway as a potential solution.
Railway is not recommended by Nightscout developers. For a reliable Nightscout, and to contribute to Nightscout development, consider using a recommended hosted service.
The Nightscout Foundation is still discussing a free solution with Heroku. More details will be provided as they become available.
In the meantime, if you'd like to beta test, run Nightscout for a full month using Railway without exceeding $5 and verify all functionalities are available as with Heroku, support is provided in CGM in the Cloud.
The migration guide is available in the link below. This Railway solution keeps the same MongoDB Atlas database you’ve been using until now so this means you won’t lose data and you will still need to clean it up to keep it under 512MB (unless you upgrade your Atlas Cluster Tier to M2, which is $9 per month for 2GB). If you want to test it, we recommend you do this before mid-October in order to have a full month of data with Railway and confirm that this is a valid solution. Remember you need to migrate before November 26th or pay for a Hobby account in Heroku.
How much will it cost?
Most probably nothing. You need to upgrade to a developer account using a credit card but no billing will occur if your monthly expense remains below $5. Based upon initial tests, Nightscout should consume less than $3 per month, which is below the billing threshold. There is no guarantee that Railway will remain free.
Is Railway reliable?
We don’t know yet. Time will tell. If something unexpected happens, your data is still in a separate MongoDB database that can be attached to any other solution.
Can Heroku run in parallel to Railway?
Yes, both can run at the same time, but to make sure you have changed all apps with the new url you should put Heroku into maintenance mode. There is no hurry to change your Heroku site because we have until November 28th before Heroku shuts down its free tier.
SugarPixel
SugarPixel doesn’t work with NS hosted on Railway. Hopefully there’s a fix, but the only time you’d need NS for SugarPixel is if Dexcom Follow is down or Dexcom changes its protocols again and breaks SugarPixel’s connection
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FreeAPS X Users Have a New Discord Channel
There's a new discord channel for FreeAPS X users. The Telegram channel will remain, but it is suggested new posts go to the Discord channel.
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LnL Pro Tip: Pizza is NOT 3 Hour Absorption
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Every year, we collectively consume about 5 billion pizzas- making pizza the most popular food in the world. However, pizza is the biggest single food nemesis for a T1D. Learning to bolus for pizza using loop takes skill and patience, and everyone's strategy is slightly difference because YDMV (your diabetes may vary).
However, regardless of how unique your diabetes and meal absorption may be, it is highly unlikely that your pizza (even one with a cauliflower crust) will finish impacting your blood glucose within 3 hours.
As a starting point, try the 3-entry strategy described in the PDF and video linked below, then use your ICE screen to see how long your pizza took to finish absorbing. The next time that you try that same pizza, modify your bolusing strategy to reflect what your body actually observed.
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Replay: If This Then That (IFTTT)
The best way to integrate apps, devices, and services.
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with Matt Pressnall
YouTube Replay
IFTTT is the best way to integrate apps, devices, and services. It was founded on the belief that everything works better together. Tech incompatibility has become challenging for anyone trying to build a smart home or create automatic routines in their life. IFTTT automates and makes your life easier by linking online services and smart home devices together through user-created (THAT’S YOU!) Applets, which perform individual tasks. Matt will talk about using IFTTT with Alexa and Google Home as well as how webhooks work. You can use these on either Android or iOS devices (but he is only proficient on the Android environment).
Matt is a dad to 2 children and a wife living with T1D ... and he’s on the fringe.
He co-owns a digital marketing agency in Washington State (US), specializing in web development, SEO and conversion optimization.
If you don’t understand what this means, you should watch this Replay.
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