I am sure I am messing up the terminology here so please forgive me. Let me try to explain what I would like to do and hopefully someone here can tell me to pound sand that this will not work or offer some insights on this working and direct me to the right resources. =)
I and my son are Type 1 Diabetics and controlling blood sugars is always a challenging process throughout the day especially for my son who is not always as careful as he should be in monitoring his blood sugars. We use a device called a Continuous Glucose Monitor that basically checks the blood sugars every 5 minutes and sends a signal to a receiver that is wireless. The device is called Dexcom. The diabetes community is in love with this device and there have been some people that have been able to develop tools to make this device upload its data to the cloud and thusly be able to view the real time blood sugars remotely. This is a huge development and allows parents like me to monitor our son's blood sugars wherever he is. So this open source project is still in its infancy and right now you have to use USB-OTG cable to connected to the Dexcom Reciever directly to the Android phone. The android software connects to the Dexcom unit through the cable and downloads the Blood Sugar readings then uploads the blood sugars to the cloud database. This works wonderfully but has some slight issues. The USB-OTG cable must be plugged into the Dexcom and Phone the whole time to get the readings which makes the process a little difficult and also requires you to dedicate a phone to that device. Also the USB plug on the Dexcom is rather weak and is prone to breaking. I am hoping this is where you guys can help me out. I would like to see if we could use IOIO in bluetooth mode. Basically make the Dexcom wireless and communicate to the Android phone without the need of a usb connector being connected to the Phone? It looks like that IOIO can do this but, I am not that strong in my programming chops to really know if this is possible. This is the Github source for the open source project. https://github.com/nightscout The facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/cgminthecloud If this is possible you guys don't understand how huge this will be for parents to being able to free up their child from having to always being around an adult. It takes the tether and makes it portable so that we can monitor them piratically anywhere. The idea is if this is possible we can come up with some kind of case that puts the IOIO in it with a rechargeable battery pack and then Dock the Dexcom device into it. And then have it connect through bluetooth to the android phone of choice to upload the data. Hopefully this makes sense and please tell me this can be done. =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
