[Diabetes-Talk] Using Camera to capture QRCode

Fri Jun 16 20:46:23 UTC 2023

Hey Veronica,
I use the dexcom app to scan the code.

The code is on the opposite side of the applicator from the button.

Personally I usually use the foot post of my bed to sit the applicator
on, hold the phone about a hands lingth away, and after a little
moving sometimes the phone will vibrate and ask if you want to pare.

Sometimes it can take a good 15 or 20 seconds for it to recognize the code.

But that could be because if I don't get a result with in like 3
seconds I tend to start moving the phone around. lol

On 6/16/23, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Sorry, I'm still just a bit puzzled. So, when you get to the screen in the
> Dexcom app that lets you choose enter manually or scan the code, do you
> choose scan, then hold the phone near the code? Or when you get to the
> screen to choose manual or scan, do you leave the app and go into the
> camera
> app, where VoiceOver helps with stuff?
> Thanks so much.
> Veronica
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton
> via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2023 10:11 AM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Using Camera to capture QRCode
>
> Hi,
>
> I used the camera to slowly scan for the QRCode holding the camera about 5
> to 6 inches over the area where I know the code is located. I did not have
> to use any sighted help to align the camera.
>
> When it finds the code you should hear the camera shutter sound and a
> prompt
> that the sensor is paired.
>
> Warmup should take around 15 minutes and you will be taken to the main
> screen of your app and it will show that it is warming up.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> Veronica
> Elsea via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2023 11:42 AM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Veronica Elsea <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Using Camera to capture QRCode
>
> Milton,
> I am changing my sensor tomorrow. Did you do the qr code from within the G7
> app or did you use the phone camera app to get the qr code. In the G6 app,
> I
> just couldn't seem to find the code in time. Is the qr code located on the
> back, if the big button is called on the front?
> Everyone, as for the patches, tech support told me to forget them as they
> were such a disaster for everyone that Dexcom is recreating new ones.
> So far mine have stayed on just fine without the patches.
> As for calibration, weird. I had to calibrate mine again this morning. When
> I went into history, it said, to look at previous events, go to the Clarity
> app. Really? I don't understand why all of the buttons say "dimmed" even
> though they're not, really.
> Call me unimpressed so far. I had a little chat with my sensor the other
> day
> and explained that it won't get far just by being cute. It needed to
> perform. At one point yesterday, I was sitting at a table and the phone was
> on the table in front of me. I never moved. For the entire 15 minutes I was
> there, I never got a sensor reading. Sorry Dexcom, I think sometimes
> getting
> results is worth more than long battery life. Sheesh!
> I'm using an iPhone 13 Pro, running iOS 16.3.
> Veronica
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Matt
> Davis via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 8:18 PM
> To: mota1252 at gmail.com; 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: mdavisforalternatives at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Using Camera to capture QRCode
>
> Milton , Thanks for giving your explanation for how your using the camera
> to
> pair G7 sensor very successfully.
> Could you please share about your experience with the over lay patch/tatch?
>
>
> A friend is using paper tape or medical tape on each side of the sensor
> edges, without assistance, but that only works for one spot on his arm and
> he and we all know the sensors  need to be rotated.
>
>
> Thanks much,
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton
> via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 10:14 AM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Using Camera to capture QRCode
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I just inserted a new sensor for the Dexcom G7 using the iPhone camera. I'm
> running iOS 16.5 on an iPhone 14 Pro.
>
>
>
> I found it pretty snappy once I was able to place the sensor container in
> the position where the code can be found on the outside of the applicator.
> I
> aligned the camera about 6 inches from the container and slowly moved the
> camera/phone around until I felt a vibration and heard Voiceover tell me
> that pairing was complete.
>
>
>
> I find that this looks to be better than the G6 app for the iPhone.
>
>
>
> Hope others using the G7 will try it and share their experience capturing
> the QRCode using their camera whether its with an iPhone or Android device.
>
>
>
> Milton
>
>
>
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