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This is great. I do watch my Dexcom on my Apple Watch, but there's times I just want the number, ASAP. I was hoping it'd talk about eliminating the need for the iOS app ("...where he shouldn’t have to run around with a phone strapped to him...") but it sounds like it's just not possible to avoid at least periodic polling.

Reading through the product development, I'm curious why you didn't use a dev kit like the Pine Time? (https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/) I bought one a few years ago and it's just been sitting in the box, waiting for a project to build on it. I may take a stab at something similar.

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The G7 pairs directly with an Apple Watch and acts as the primary sync device. Unlike the G6, you don’t get null readings displaying on the watch until you open the app. I have the dexcom widget on my Apple Watch series 10 with a G7 paired with direct to watch and it always displays the current reading

That's great to hear that direct-to-watch pairing leads to a reliable reading. That's a big improvement over where things were a year ago. I am surprised that the watch becomes the primary sync device instead of the phone, but maybe that's not actually a problem in most situations.

I wore the G7 briefly, but switched back to the G6 because the long-awaited iOS integration for my pump (Omnipod) only supports the G6 at this time. (otherwise I have to carry around a separate device, which is essentially a dumbed down Android phone)

Thank you! It should be possible now with the G7 to have the watch pair directly with the sensor. We’re still on the G6. Agreed that would be much better than having to go through the iOS app and up to the cloud.

Honestly I don’t remember why I ruled out the PineTime. I purchased a Bangle.js and while it’s very small, it seemed very limited in what I could do with it. Of course with the Pebble announcement yesterday, that might change things.

PineTime is nice and cheap and does a little BlueTooth. It's easy to flash your own firmware to it; I think it might have been an option.

That said, Pine64 does not do a whole lot of work on their platform and I guess a lot of people are wanting _more_. It's a simple watch and for what it does and costs it's great. If you think you'll get an open source Apple Watch, you're going to be disappointed.

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