Not really a celebration, but anyway.
Finally ran out of my G4 sensors, and it was also transmitter battery replacement time. I found that the transmitters were lasting shorter amounts of time with the last few replacements.
It took all of a week before I had to hack together a solution so I could get back my predictive bg readings and push the data to my Garmin. I couldn't see buying an iWatch, the battery life is terrible. Additionally, I'm underwhelmed by whatever app dexcom would be providing.
I've got this running on a Raspberry Pi that I always have around for Unix things. It was fairly easy. I'm using cron to call a python script every minute that connects to share and gets my glucose.
I then store the value in a mysql database, do my analytics and send a notification to my Garmin if necessary. I wasn't looking forward to writing another iPhone app, so I found an app called Pushover that handles this perfectly.
I miss my 2 hour snooze function, but I'll live.
The one downside to this, is it won't work when I'm mountain biking in parts of Vermont. I have to rely on just the phone app when I'm out of network.
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