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NEWS From Loop and Learn
- LnL Speaker Series
- "looper-friendly" Provider Resource
- Apple's New Releases
- Important for Heroku Users
- LnL Pro Tip
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Loop and Learn T1D Speaker Series is Back, with TWO exciting talks about enhanced technology use!
- If This Then That (IFTTT) by Matt Pressnall on Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 5pm PT/ 8p ET
- Gluroo by Greg J. Badros on Sunday, 25 September 2022 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
Add these to your calendar and stay tuned for future events.
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If This Then That (IFTTT)
The best way to integrate apps, devices, and services.
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with Matt Pressnall
Thursday, 15 September 2022
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Zoom or
Loop and Learn YouTube LiveStream
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). If you are knowledgeable about Apple/iOS Shortcut or IFTTT on Apple devices, please come to provide us with additional wisdom.
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 attend this event and learn more!
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Gluroo
The Diabetes Logging app that makes managing diabetes as easy as messaging
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with Greg J. Badros, Ph.D, CEO of Gluroo
Sunday, 25 September 2022
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Zoom. or
Loop and Learn 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.
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.
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Apple Update: iOS16 and Xcode 14 are now released!
iOS 16 and Xcode 14 are now released. Loop, Loop-dev, FreeAPS, FreeAPS_dev, and several versions of FreeAPS-X have been built using Xcode 14 and iOS 16
This is NOT A RECOMMENDATION to load iOS 16 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.
If you have an iPhone 6s or 7 or 1st generation iPhone SE, the iOS 15.7 is all that shows up as available. Apple has announced they will not support those 2 phones with iOS 16. But you can still build loop code with iOS 15 and those phones.
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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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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:
- 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
Both of the subscription services listed in #3 and #4 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.
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LnL Pro Tip: Treating Low Blood Glucose
When your blood glucose dips down below your correction range, it's easy to panic and drink the entire sports drink or eat the entire piece of cake, but how much glucose do you really need?
The answer to this question is complicated and many healthcare professionals still recommend the 15-15 rule: 15 grams of glucose and then recheck blood glucose in 15 minutes, rinse, repeat. As always, we recommend that you discuss changes to your diabetes management with your healthcare provider.
Many factors influence how much glucose you'll actually need, including:
- Current blood glucose reading
- Rate of blood glucose drop
- COB
- IOB
- Physical activity
- Illness
Another important factor to consider is how much each gram of glucose increases your blood glucose. Sound complicated? It's not, just divide your ISF by your CR. For example, if your ISF is 100 and your CR is 10, then each gram of glucose should increase your blood glucose by 10 points.
This formula will help you determine how much glucose you need, and you can use it as one of the factors that you consider:
(Target Blood Glucose less Current Blood Glucose) divided by (ISF divided by CR)
(120 less 60) divided by (100 divided by 10)
60 divided by 10 = 6 grams
If your current blood glucose is 60 and you'd like it to be 120, then you should need around 6 grams of glucose.
If this formula doesn't work for you, then it's possible that your ISF or CR needs to be fine-tuned OR you're impacted by tone or more of he factors listed above.
YDMV (your diabetes may vary).
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