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NEWS From Loop and Learn (October 8, 2022)
- LnL Speaker Series
- "loop-friendly" Provider Resource
- Apple Update
- Important for Heroku Users
- FreeAPS X Discord Channel
- LnL Pro Tip
- YouTube Replays
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Loop and Learn Speaker Series continues with more tips on how to better manage your blood glucose!
- Gluroo by Greg J. Badros on Sunday, 9 October 2022 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Diabetes Cockpit by developer Lukas Schuster on 16 October 2022. More details to follow.
- Happy Bob by Harald AI, with Jutta Haaramo, founder, mom of T1D son on Sunday, 23 October 2022 at 9am PT / 12 noon ET/ 5pm BST-GMT
- Bright Spots and Landmines, by author Adam Brown on Sunday, 6 November at 5pm PT/8pm ET.
Add these to your calendar and stay tuned for future events.
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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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Diabetes Cockpit by Lukas Schuster
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Sunday, 16 October 2022
Time TBD
Zoom link to be provided soon, or
YouTube LiveStream More details will be posted to FB and to our website, but if you'd like to check out Diabetes Cockpit, visit the app store.
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Happy Bob by Harald AI, with Jutta Haaramo, founder, mom of T1D son
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Sunday, 23 October 2022
9am PT / 12 noon ET/ 5pm BST-GMT
Zoom or
YouTube LiveStream
Happy Bob is a personal digital health companion aimed at helping you improve your diabetes management. With Bob by your side, you can reduce the stress that comes with diabetes data overload while still achieving better glycemic control. As a secondary CGM display, Happy Bob delivers your glucose values alongside messages from one of our many characters. This personalized delivery model allows you to feel more like a person than a patient, as this app is far from the everyday medical device format.
“Diabetes exacts a huge mental toll and our app is designed to alleviate the data overload involved with daily care and glycemic control. Happy Bob is here to make your day better, and this partnership with Dexcom makes Happy Bob better able to do that.”
Harald AI is a diabetes tech startup founded in 2018 whose mission is to make self-care for diabetes more humane and fun, reduce the mental load caused by diabetes, and improve users’ health. Happy Bob is available for download for iOS and Android smart phones and Apple Watch in six different languages.
Jutta Haaramo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Harald AI as well as a co-founder of Stylewhile, a Finland based fashion-tech company. In 2014, Jutta’s oldest son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. With the overload of diabetes data, Jutta started to think about how the real-time diabetes data could be turned into intuitive, fun experiences that would help in keeping glucose more stable. Together with a small team they built Happy Bob, a diabetes app combining gamification and humor that is used by thousands of people with diabetes every day.
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Adam Brown, T1D & Author of Bright Spots & Landmines
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Sunday, 6 November 2022
5 pm PT / 8 pm ET/ 1am BST-GMT
Zoom or
YouTube LiveStream Adam Brown has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 20 years. He is the author of Bright Spots & Landmines: The Diabetes Guide I Wish Someone Had Handed Me. To date, over 300,000 copies of Bright Spots & Landmines have been sold/downloaded, with access at the center of the book's mission. It is available free as a PDF, a free audiobook, and priced at-cost on Amazon. His very popular “42 Factors That Affect Blood Sugar” is frequently referenced and available even as a poster.
From 2010-2019, Adam worked at two mission-driven diabetes publications: Close Concerns and diaTribe.org. At diaTribe, he served as Senior Editor, regular contributor, and author of Adam’s Corner. As the Head of Diabetes Technology & Connected Care at Close Concerns, he wrote extensively about continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), automated insulin delivery, mobile apps, wearables, and the latest in diabetes research and care. Adam also brought a patient perspective to numerous public venues, including FDA and NIH meetings, international scientific and industry conferences (ADA, AADE, ATTD), and local diabetes events.
Adam is a registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist (AMFT) in the state of California. He currently works at The Healthy Teen Project serving teenagers with eating disorders via individual, group, and family therapy. Adam has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute and a Bachelor’s Degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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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: iOS16.0.2 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 Heroku 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:
- Azure (Free),
- 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
Both of the subscription services listed in #5 and #6 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.
All NS users need a plan for November 28. Our current recommendation is to sit tight until November 1 to see what options become available. Will the LnL Team wait until November 27 to make a decision? No, we will not. By mid-November, every member of the team will be using the option that best meets their needs. And you should too.
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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: If You're Traveling, You Need Diawi
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Not sure what Diawi is or how it relates to Loop? Then you're definitely missing out on a great opportunity to make sure that you have disaster-proofed your travel plans. With Diawi, you can quickly and easily rebuild your Loop or Loop Follow app by using your iPhone. No Mac required for the rebuild!
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Replay: Loop Follow, SugarPixel and More with Jon Fawcett, founder of Custom Type One
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YouTube Replay
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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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 discussed 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 living with T1D ... and he’s on the verge.
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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