Sugar pixel

[Tdm]

I've got my sugar pixel set up! I've got it so it displays my blood sugars, and the time, so at night don't need to open my phone to see my sugars. Its taking the place of my radio alarm, given i now tend to use my phone to wake me up.

You can also set it up with lots of different displays from just colours, numbers icons, and slang (yeet, is, apparently, good?)

Also hopefully the vibration alert means less possibility of irritating neighbours.

Plus, not convinced my phone always wakes me...not sure if its dexcom app not alerting, my phones settings, or whatever. As this way my nightime alerts skip the phone hopefully will be more reliable.
I will leave my night phone alerts on for now.

I saved the set up for the weekend thinking it may be a pain, but it was a lot easier than i thought.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Glad the set-up went smoothly @Tdm

Hope it works well for you 🙂

 

[Tdm]

Tempted to get a second one, to be honest. It may help keep me off my phone!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Haha!

Gotta love a new diabetes gadget

 

[Flower]

I am very fond of my Sugar Pixel too @Tdm
It’s a good bit of kit.

I’m partially sighted & at night I can see my glucose & direction of travel on its screen. It must have reset itself after a power cut the other day as I’d switched off alarms previously but in the night it sounded like a fog horn when I was hypo. I couldn’t work out where on earth the alarm was coming from!

 

[Tdm]

I have it set to start on the vibe pad and work on up...i find that a gentler way to wake

 

[Tdm]

Got a second one! I now have one that just display, with only visual no alerts, in my main room so i don't have to have my phone at hand.

 

[Martin62]

Looks like a good piece of kit , a tad pricey though .

 

[PhoebeC]

Same, is it worth the price?
I do like the idea of it.

Looks like a good piece of kit , a tad pricey though .

 

[Tom1982]

Brilliant bit of kit! Had it on the go for a few months and it’s well handy. Smaller than I thought but it’s one of the most useful bits of Diabetes kit we’ve got.

 

[Lisa65]

I want one now! I don't really need it, but I love a gadget to play with.

 

[littlevoice359]

One thing to keep in mind here is that this device takes its information from the Dexcom share server(s), which means that occasionally data displayed may be out of date. I only mention this because I have noticed that my G7 app sometimes loses connection with the Dexcom server(s).

Hope that makes sense?

 

[Tdm]

It does let you know when the data is a bit old, but the display normally changes some 15sec or so after my phone.
I have it alerting on my bedroom sugar pixel at a slightly higher level than my phone, so the phone going off is a backstop. Waking to the vibration puck is more pleasent than an alarm, but there are ascending alarms to follow if needed. I think i was starting to sleep through phone alarms.
Also means i can see my blood sugars whilst my phones on charge, also less likely to get distracted by looking at a display compared to picking up my phone.

Yes, bit pricey, but useful.