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Androidaps says I'm 85% within 3.9-10.0 (70-180) in the past week. I enter carbs but only to a resolution of 10g; and as I mentioned earlier I sometimes forget

Androidaps says I'm 85% within 3.9-10.0 (70-180) in the past week. I enter carbs but only to a resolution of 10g; and as I mentioned earlier I sometimes forget to enter them entirely. Are you using a Dexcom with your omnipod? My impression is that the quality of sensor is the most important factor; with a flaky sensor looping algorithms will be more conservative since they (reasonably) prioritize avoiding lows.

Trasmatta 2y ago
> Androidaps says I'm 85% within 3.9-10.0 (70-180) in the past week Nice! > I enter carbs but only to a resolution of 10g; and as I mentioned earlier I sometimes forget to enter them entirely. I'm pretty bad at accurately entering carbs. I eat out enough that I've just gotten to the point where I just come up with a rough estimate (which is often wrong). Which means I have to adjust later pretty frequently with snacks or correction doses. Not ideal, but I got so much "carb counting fatigue" over the years. > Are you using a Dexcom with your omnipod? My impression is that the quality of sensor is the most important factor; with a flaky sensor looping algorithms will be more conservative since they (reasonably) prioritize avoiding lows. Yeah, I'm on the G6 still. I think the quality of my readings is pretty good, but the Omnipod 5 algorithm is pretty conservative anyway: rather than naturally bringing you down from a high, you usually have to explicitly give yourself a correction dose. Which I suppose makes sense, but I have read that some people have had a lot more success with looping in Androidaps vs the Omnipod 5's algo. I also wish you could set the "target" a bit lower in the 5. You can't tell it to target below 120: I feel like 100 or 110 would be more reasonable, but again, it makes sense that they prefer being conservative.
- cperciva 2y ago
  Ah yes, I have my target set to 100. IIRC the first off the shelf closed loops were hardwired to 120 but newer ones are configurable.

Trasmatta 2y ago

> Androidaps says I'm 85% within 3.9-10.0 (70-180) in the past week Nice! > I enter carbs but only to a resolution of 10g; and as I mentioned earlier I sometimes forget to enter them entirely. I'm pretty bad at accurately entering carbs. I eat out enough that I've just gotten to the point where I just come up with a rough estimate (which is often wrong). Which means I have to adjust later pretty frequently with snacks or correction doses. Not ideal, but I got so much "carb counting fatigue" over the years. > Are you using a Dexcom with your omnipod? My impression is that the quality of sensor is the most important factor; with a flaky sensor looping algorithms will be more conservative since they (reasonably) prioritize avoiding lows. Yeah, I'm on the G6 still. I think the quality of my readings is pretty good, but the Omnipod 5 algorithm is pretty conservative anyway: rather than naturally bringing you down from a high, you usually have to explicitly give yourself a correction dose. Which I suppose makes sense, but I have read that some people have had a lot more success with looping in Androidaps vs the Omnipod 5's algo. I also wish you could set the "target" a bit lower in the 5. You can't tell it to target below 120: I feel like 100 or 110 would be more reasonable, but again, it makes sense that they prefer being conservative.

cperciva 2y ago
Ah yes, I have my target set to 100. IIRC the first off the shelf closed loops were hardwired to 120 but newer ones are configurable.