Our new release today launches an updated version 1.5.10 Gluroo Watch App for Android Wear OS watches such as the Samsung Galaxy 7 and Samsung Galaxy Ultra. See our detailed guide to seeing your CGM values on Android Wear OS watches with Gluroo and note that you will need to download the Gluroo CGM Watchface app from the Play store, too (in addition to the Gluroo App on your Watch). Links to these apps are available on the Android Gluroo mobile phone app at Menu > Settings > “Watch Calendar Car” (last tab) where we try to make it easy to get everything set up. Note you’ll also want to read our documentation about how to configure the Gluroo CGM Watchface with the recommended complications provided by the Gluroo Watch App.
Here’s a look at the end result:
PLEASE NOTE: This release REPLACES the old Gluroo watch app which contained a legacy no-longer-supported watchface capability. That watchface is gone as the Play store has gotten increasingly hostile towards apps that include the old-style watchfaces (they want Wear OS watches to have better battery lives, and apparently a bunch of watchfaces out there make bad tradeoffs of battery vs. value). Thanks for understanding and we know that setting up the new Gluroo CGM Watchface takes a couple minutes, but we think the better configurability and support will be worth it.
This version of the Gluroo Watch app also introduces it being an actual application and not just a watchface and not just a complication data provider. For example, the Gluroo Watch App now provides a tile and the watchface COB and IOB complications let you tap them to log intervention sugar snacks and insulin boluses quickly right from your watch face. This is STILL IN ACTIVE TESTING and there’s a lot that we’re doing to improve these features — we just didn’t want to hold up the watch face for getting all of this functionality perfect.
Here’s what the tile and those two activities look like:
Tile showing buttons for snack + insulin, and those two activities
Note that Gluroo also has a Launcher action if you open the Gluroo Watch App from the Wear OS launcher. That will provide a BGL chart but more importantly, if you haven’t yet installed the Watchface, makes it easy to install the new Watchface. If you have installed the Gluroo CGM Watchface app already, you’ll get a “Learn More” link that takes you here so you can, well, learn more.
Chart Performance
Libre CGM users have readings come in every minute, compared to Dexcom only reporting readings every 5 minutes. That means that if you use a Libre CGM, you have 5x as many datapoints on your charts, and that’s made Gluroo’s charting rather slow for those CGMs, especially if you’ve changed your settings to show more than the default of 5 hours of lookback.
In this release, we’re trialing time-based-averaging of the CGM readings to reduce the number of data points and significantly improve the interaction speed of Gluroo’s in-app charting. Note that your in-notification/in-widget charts on Android and your in-live-activities charts on iOS will still show all the data points. It’s only the scrollable charts that we’re experimenting with this on. When averaging is happening, we use a short horizontal line instead of a circle to represent each data point. Note that this also happens for longer time-horizon charts for Dexcom CGM users as well.
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Timezones
You can now set/update your timezone from Menu > Settings > GluCrew > Timezone.
Bugfixes
We have the usual crop of bugfixes. One particularly important one affected only a handful of users on older Android phones, but their camera didn’t work for taking photos of their meals. That problem has been fixed, so please let us know if you’re on version 1.3.114 or later and still have issues with your camera.
This version also makes Gluroo and the always-on CGM Live Activity display better for iOS/iPhone users who have turned Display Zoom on to make the user interface larger for accessibility. We made a number of bug fixes to the main app for this as well.
There are also bugfixes for AAPS talking to Gluroo, a rewrite of how we manage reminders that should be more robust, and some new Glooko settings to turn off automatic entry of “New site” messages and to allow you to override the Pump-reported timezone when entering data imported from Glooko.
Google Health Connect should now import fingerstick blood glucose meter readings.