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by stranded22 985 days ago
I had a look over the years - the libre can pretty unreliable with levels, so I am concerned about someone else’s life being in jeopardy if I made a mistake (would be different if it was my own - I’d have done it a long time ago)

She’s waiting for a closed loop system from her hospital - should be within the next few months (omnipod is due an upgrade). That said, I’ll check out androidaps and loop kit, thank you!

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I‘m actually using the Libre + Omnipod Dash with a closed loop and it works pretty well (almost „flat“ blood sugar with a few spikes here and there) beside that’s, for me as tech nerd, cool to inject insuline with my phone :-).

Those are the pieces I‘m using on my iPhone:

https://nightscout.github.io/ -> to store historical data

https://github.com/Artificial-Pancreas/iAPS -> to connect the libre and pump and control the pump and make the close loop

The Libre has been life changing for me, but in particular during sleep I do find that the levels can be very unreliable if you end up sleeping on the same side as where you have attached the sensor.
I have a Dexcom, and it's frequently 10-20% off of manual finger sticks. When paired with my pump (Tandem T-Slim) it keeps me in a good range, but still not perfect.
I briefly used the libre 3, and found it very accurate (but was skeptical as the 2 and 1 could not even warn you about a low/we're passive) and durable. Currently on the Dexcom G7, waiting for support for either of these with my pump.

The libre3 and G7 seem to be leaps and bounds better than anything else I've used (G4, G5, Guardian 3).

I hope you two find something that works well!