Recently, Dexcom introduced the ability to directly connect the Dexcom G7 to an Apple Watch. This has been huge for glucose monitors, particularly benefiting those who exercise frequently and prefer not to carry their phone all the time.
My question is: what does this mean for Loop? I've been using Loop for about three months, and I'm not a veteran, however I assume there have been previous attempts to connect an Omnipod DASH directly to an Apple Watch. What were the outcomes of those attempts?
Getting Loop to run standalone on an Apple Watch would be a major achievement and likely require at least a year to implement due to the complexity involved. However that's not my question, I'm starting at the bottom and more simply asking, is it even feasible to connect an Omnipod DASH directly to an Apple Watch? I'd love to hear about any past efforts and the challenges encountered. A couple of possible problems from an on paper standpoint I've come up with are:
Omnipod DASH will only allow you to pair to one device, so the user would be tied to the Apple Watch, sounds small but charging the Apple Watch can be annoying during the day.
watchOS is limited in writing health data, which is what Loop's current codebase relies on.
I'm not sure on how communicating from the Apple Watch all the data from the pod, sensor, etc. would work to the main Loop app on the phone.
The Apple Watch I assume may have issues with BLE which is what pod's start in during the insertion process?
Thank you, any comments would be helpful, I'm trying to gage.
Recently, Dexcom introduced the ability to directly connect the Dexcom G7 to an Apple Watch. This has been huge for glucose monitors, particularly benefiting those who exercise frequently and prefer not to carry their phone all the time.
My question is: what does this mean for Loop? I've been using Loop for about three months, and I'm not a veteran, however I assume there have been previous attempts to connect an Omnipod DASH directly to an Apple Watch. What were the outcomes of those attempts?
Getting Loop to run standalone on an Apple Watch would be a major achievement and likely require at least a year to implement due to the complexity involved. However that's not my question, I'm starting at the bottom and more simply asking, is it even feasible to connect an Omnipod DASH directly to an Apple Watch? I'd love to hear about any past efforts and the challenges encountered. A couple of possible problems from an on paper standpoint I've come up with are:
Thank you, any comments would be helpful, I'm trying to gage.