Hi guys need help waking the house up

[Grahamrimmer1984]

Weve been living with diabetes for about 6 years and as the kids get older and life becomes more stressful it's hard to wake anyone up in the house once they're sleeping.

We had a scary couple of hypos on the bounce and with me being in work I must have rang over 40 times to get through. Is there any device out there that I can trigger an alarm. Just like a smoke alarm or burglar alarm, because this is as serious as it gets. I basically want it to be attached to alexa or the network and trigger the alarm remotely on my phone via the home network. Kind regards, Graham

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hello Graham

Welcome to the forum!

You are not the first person to have worried about that long overnight period. I know some parents of children and young people with diabetes who never have an uninterrupted night’s sleep because they always wake to check on their T1 loved one.

As a result, some people with diabetes developed a method to share continuous glucose monitor data to the cloud so that it can be viewed by family, spouses, parents or whoever it is helpful for. It’s called Nightscout and works with most currently available CGM systems including Dexcom, Medtronic and Freestyle Libre.

http://www.nightscout.info/

As a result of the innovation several device manufacturers accelerated their own ‘remote access’ technologies so Dexcom now have Share and medtronic’s standalone Guardian CGM offer similar functionality, including text-based alerts for our of range readings.

Hope this helps.

 

[Carlos]

How loud can you set the phone ringer? I think some models of phone designed for people with hearing problems can be set really loud, we can often hear our neighbour's phone ring.

 

[Grahamrimmer1984]

We have the G6 and I was watching his blood levels go to urgent low. Everyones phones were going off at home but not waking anyone up. I want to be able to trigger an alarm at home that will wake people up if it happens again.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

We have the G6 and I was watching his blood levels go to urgent low. Everyones phones were going off at home but not waking anyone up. I want to be able to trigger an alarm at home that will wake people up if it happens again.

Ah OK. That’s good to hear. In which case it sounds like you aren’t so much needing a diabetes tech solution as either a home-automation gadget, or possibly a conversation with the folks in the house about responding to alarms and not just grunting and turning over. Perhaps they aren’t aware of the distress it is causing you, and the potentially serious consequences of not waking to self-treat and/or going and checking on the person w T1?