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NEWS From Loop and Learn
Speaker Series
Turn-Off iPhone Automatic Updates
FreeAPS Time Zone Bug
Omnipod Dash
Replays
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Speakers Series
Please mark your calendars to join us for this upcoming discussion:
Seagrove Partners: Innovations in CGMs
Sunday 6 March 2022 5PM PST
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Erik Verhoef, CEO of Seagrove Partners
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Sunday, 6 March 2022
5PM PST
Join us:
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88311147122
or
Loop and Learn YouTube channel
Erik Verhoef is President and CEO of Seagrove Partners, a consulting firm dedicated to uncovering customer insights (from perspectives of both the end user and the commercial entities). Erik is going to enlighten us on the disconnect between the way that T1Ds and health care professionals think about diabetes technology.
DID YOU KNOW that Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) are most influenced by professional conferences (92%) and ONLY 51% by discussions with Patients? THEY ARE NOT LISTENING TO US! Hope you all can join in and hear the research. HCPs and people with diabetes think VERY DIFFERENTLY! Click the link below to see Seagrove Partners' Chris Gilbert review the "50+ New CGM Companies" at the Fall 2021 DiabetesMine D-Data ExChange.
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URGENT: Turn Off Automatic Updates
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Please take a few minutes to turn-off the Install iOS Updates feature on your iPhone. Apple should be releasing iOS 15.4 in mid-March (perhaps at its March 8th 10am PST press conference), and it is expected to be a significant release.
Let's give our most tech savvy Loopers an opportunity to experiment with their testing phones before the rest of the Looping community installs this significant release.
Not sure how to turn-off Install iOS Updates? Click on iPhone Settings/ General/ Software Update. To read more about why this is important, click on Loopdocs below.
Next, check to see if your mac can support macOS Monterey and update if you can. If Apple follows its historical pattern, the Xcode version needed for iOS 15.4 will require Monterey.
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URGENT: Update FreeAPS
Time Zone Bug has been cured!!
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If you're a FreeAPS user, there is no doubt that you've been bitten by the Time Zone Bug or taken extra care when you travel across time zones or shift from winter to summer time.
The Time Zone Bug occurs when users' pumps' and iPhones' time zones were out of synch and they change their ISF. If this has happened to you, then you know that your FreeAPS app immediately crashes and rebuilding FreeAPS does not help.
Finally, there's a cure for the Time Zone Bug - it's a simple rebuild using the updated FreeAPS code. Just click on the Build Select Script link below to get this updated code. Our special thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort!!
Our recommendation is to rebuild FreeAPS before you experience the next switch from winter to summer time, which is March 13 if you're in the US, March 27 if you're in Europe, and April 3 for our Australian members.
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Omnipod Dash
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Our most exciting news of the week is that both Loop-Dev and FreeAPS-Dev have now integrated Dash pods! Both are still in alpha testing and are in a state of continuous bug fixes and refinements. The Dash implementation does not include scheduled basal rates of zero U/hr (yet).
Who should not move to Dash?
- children
- those on a low total daily dose. Just like the Eros, the Dash manual contains the following warning: "Insulin sensitive patients should be aware that the accuracy of the device below 1U is ±0.05 units. For a dose of 0.05 units the actual bolus delivered may be as low as 0.00 units or as high as 0.10 units."
- those who rely on a mentor or FB for tech support. This is important: if you run into trouble building or operating Dev, it is unlikely that you'll get timely support because the people in the best position to help you are busy working on bug fixes and refinements.
Who should move to Dash?
Adults who
- are proficient builders
- are happy to rebuild when a bug fix is published
- understand there may be brief periods when a build might fail while updates are being pushed
- are willing to check Zulip to see announcements about recent changes
- can closely monitor their Loop app, and
- can report any bugs or issues
AND those who can no longer get an Eros prescription.
For more information about the Loop-Dev branch, how to build the Dev branches, and to follow along in Zulip, please click the links below.
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Replays
If you missed any of our recent events, please use the links below to get caught up.
Dr. Laura Nally, assistant professor at Yale University and a Looping T1D, came back to speak with us about Looping and Exercise.
Open Mic Night, Omnipod 5 with Cari Berget (MPH, RN, CDE, Research Instructor, Pediatrics-Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver), Emily Boranian (T1D Looper, RN, Instructor, Pediatrics-Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver), Rebecca Zwang (parent of a teen clinical trial participant) and Veronica Schoenen, parent of Charlotte (8yo clinical trial participant).
Chris Wilson, CEO of Glucose Genius, spoke to us about the manner in which ISF decreases as blood glucose increases. Of course, as with all T1D tools, this one should be used with caution. If you decide to experiment with dynamic ISF, then please remember that it has only been tested by adults using the oref algorithm (AAPS).
Dr. Trang Ly, CMO of Insulet, discussed Omnipod 5's clearance by the FDA.
Erik Huneker, CEO and Co-Founder of diabeloop, discussed diabeloop's self-learning algorithm that automates and personalizes the treatment of T1D.
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