Here comes the TECH!

So after a few days researching which would be the best phone to use for looping i have been recommended a nexus 5x by a few people on the AAPSCombo facebook group, Thanks Guys and Girls!

The phone is a fairly decent spec for the price as I managed to pick one up on gumtree for £50 second hand after the first one i got from eBay had a faulty charging port. Bonus of this is the fully refunded me and I’ve kept the device, only looking around £20 to get this fixed to may use this as a standby device should anything untoward happen with the first.

My plan is to get this setup ready for Dexcom(CGM) and Pump….just got many questions including the following:

• Can AAPS be installed and configured without a Pump/CGM?
• Can Nightscout be installed without a pump/CGM?
• Does Nightscout work with just a CGM to log data?
• What happens with AAPS when the phone goes out of range of the pump or CGM?
• If doing a suspended/temp basal does it just revert this to normal levels if CGM data is lost or the pump looses connection with the phone?

I do have a million more questions that i’m sure ill get the answers too either by my own findings or the friendly people on various social media platforms, I’m keeping a track of these under a Q&A section of the blog which can be found here…