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Smart watch and MiaoMiao info please

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SB2015

SB2015

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A tech numpty so be gentle

I saw a person using a Miao Miao with his Libre and I like the idea of the regular India and possibility of alarms. The person I spoke to was looping too which is another step on and that is not possible on y current pump. Just looking ahead.

I would need a ‘smart watch’ if I don’t want to have to get my phone out all the time. Can anyone advise on these? I am not looking at paying out loads for an Apple device. Do they exist in cheaper versions?
 
Tried to send you a PM - site telling me it had problems - what's a regular India?
 
Thanks for trying. I think that there has been some wobbles in the site today.
Please try again if you have time.
 
I would think it rather depends on your phone. If it’s Android, there are any number of smart watches running Android. If it’s an iPhone, you’re stuck with an Apple Watch. You won’t be able to pair an iPhone with an Android watch, or vice versa.

The other thing you could do is wait for the second coming, that is the arrival of Libre 2, which does have optional alarms and has the overwhelming advantage of a CE approval mark. Miaomiao doesn’t, so theoretically you can’t drive based on the info from MiaoMiao.

It’s also a fairly expensive way of not getting your phone or reader out
 
mikeyB said:
I would think it rather depends on your phone. If it’s Android, there are any number of smart watches running Android. If it’s an iPhone, you’re stuck with an Apple Watch. You won’t be able to pair an iPhone with an Android watch, or vice versa.

The other thing you could do is wait for the second coming, that is the arrival of Libre 2, which does have optional alarms and has the overwhelming advantage of a CE approval mark. Miaomiao doesn’t, so theoretically you can’t drive based on the info from MiaoMiao.

It’s also a fairly expensive way of not getting your phone or reader out
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Thanks @mikeyB
I think I was coming to that conclusion myself when I saw the price of the MiaoMiao.
I haven’t yet seen the prices of smart watches. Perhaps they are even worse.
We pay a tiny amount each month for our phones and I certainly don’t want to start some massive contract if that is what is needed.

But out of interest ....
My phone is an android. Do the smart watches pair up with your phone?
Can the MiaoMiao show the data on both your phone and watch?
I am not someone who carries their phone everywhere, but if the thing was in my wrist I think it would be easier, especially when doing exercise.
My next pump will eventually be able to pair with a phone, so perhaps I just need to start carrying it with me more.
 
SB2015 said:
My phone is an android. Do the smart watches pair up with your phone?
Can the MiaoMiao show the data on both your phone and watch?
I am not someone who carries their phone everywhere, but if the thing was in my wrist I think it would be easier, especially when doing exercise.
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Yes, the watch is really just an add-on for the phone. (They can do some things without the phone - like tell the time. But quite a bit of the functionality, including MiaoMiao, needs a connection with the phone. A google search shows one description of someone getting a smartwatch to read the sensor, I think with MiaoMiao, without a phone but it's only one specific kind of smartphone and it apparently only worked with the 10 day sensors (which were US only), so not useful.)

Android watches cost quite a bit (£200 or so). They're kind of big and heavy and don't have great battery life. (Probably not worth it for this one function.)

I've read of people getting alarms (but not much else) with a Xiaomi Mi Band which have the advantage of being dirt cheap (and have good battery life), but you'd still need the phone to be nearby, and I think you only get alarms, and maybe you only get those by having the band show SMS messages and having the phone's software send those (I forget exactly how the setup was described as working).

Overall I doubt it's worth the effort. (I've not bothered even though I've got an Android watch, Mi Band, etc. I find just scanning the sensor now and again works fine.)
 
@SB2015 - the PM was merely to enquire what a 'regular India' was ? I can usually work out the word that someone was trying to type before Autocorrect had its wicked way with the thing, but not this time.
 
My smart watch is Apple, and it pairs beautifully with my iphone. But only when they are within bluetooth range. I can take phone calls on my watch, for example. I can pay shops using my watch. The one thing I can't do is load the LibreLink app on the iphone, but that may be because the app on the phone arrived before the watch. Would only work half the time anyway, i cant get the watch near the reader if the sensor is on the left arm:D
 
We used Miao Miao with Apple watch/phone and hated it. I got the impression that Android apps were better suited to it and more choice of apps were available too.
Biggest annoyances for us were that you couldn't set how often to repeat the alarm - eg it would alert that levels were high but keep on alerting until they were back in range with no option to give the insulin a chance to work first.
We also found that sticking the device to the Libre weighed it down and then needed additional adhesive to stop it pulling the sensor out - we did get an arm strap designed to fit Libre with Miao Miao attached but it wasn't comfortable.

Edit: should add that our main reason for getting it was to use function that I could be notified remotely when son at school/football/asleep so may be different experience when using for self only.
 
Thanks for all the responses. It looks like I am gg to be saving myself some spending.
Just thinking what treat I deserve with all those ‘savings’.

Ps Looking back I can’t even work out what 8 had written before autocorrect @trophywench !!!
 
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