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I don't understand how the watches help with glucose levels. The specs mention step, sleep and heart rate tracking. What am I missing? (Vested interest as a

• efdee 2y ago
  Diabetics have a sensor on their bodies that speaks Bluetooth. It talks to their phones (running eg. xDrip). The phone then communicates this to the watch. My wife is a diabetic and this kind of stuff, while it seems minimal, makes a big difference for her quality of life.
  • drdec 2y ago
    So it is just a better way of accessing information collected from another device?
    • zacmps 2y ago
      Correct
• pimeys 2y ago
  It's all about building these things by yourself. The tools are there, and Pebble used to be the first smartwatch every open source diabetic I know used (including myself). If you're not familiar, here's a good starting point: https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Oh, and you want to avoid Apple's hardware. Some of the software can only be distributed as source code, so installing them to an iOS device is not easy.
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