[Diabetes-Talk] Getting data from the Dexcom G6 trend graph on iPhone

Fri Aug 16 17:14:39 UTC 2024

Wow! Patricia this is really interesting and I do use it but I wasn't aware that it could do all that.  Thank you for all that info.

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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Patricia Maddix via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 10:34 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Patricia Maddix <pmaddix at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Getting data from the Dexcom G6 trend graph on iPhone

Paul,
This can be a little tricky and there is so much that the iPhone can do that. None of us could ever learn it all but this is the way I do it. When I have my Dexcom app open, I take a screenshot. I have an iPhone SE that still has the home button so to take a screenshot I quickly press both the home button and the power button quickly and it snaps with the camera sound. I believe on other phones that you press the power button and either the volume up or volume down button quickly at the same time to take a screenshot, but you can tell when it happens because it makes the snapshotsound.  Then once you do this in the lower left-hand corner, the screenshot will appear and announce, and if you tap quickly on the screenshot before it disappears, it will come up to full screen. Then up near the top right you will find the share button and tap on that.  Scroll quite aways down the share options and you will find one that says describe with Be My Eyes. Just tap on this and it should activate the AI feature of the Be My Eyes app. In very short time the app will say be my AI is processing and then it will read aloud a summary of what it sees on the screen. You can always go back with voiceover and re-read what is there. Near the bottom there is a text field where you can ask  AI questions about what it sees entering your question just like you would when sending a text message and then sending the message to the app. It will process your request and attempt to answer your question. So the questions I have asked so far are just the things like what was my blood glucose at  10:10 AM and such, but there are many kinds of questions you can ask in many instances. You will also be able to find the screenshot in your camera roll if you need to go to your photos to retrieve it and proceed with the same steps with the share button to get AI to analyze it.  This app is also great for describing photographs in great detail and again you can ask it many questions about what it sees in the photograph.
Another way to use this app to identify text or things in your environment is to open the app directly and at the bottom tap the tab titled be my AI. Then voiceover will say take picture and you can take a picture of anything you want just like using the camera anywhere else and the app will start describing what it sees in the picture. If there is text in the photograph such as a menu it will first of all summarize and describe the menu. Then you can start asking questions such as read me the appetizers, read me the sandwiches, is there chicken on the menu, is there a green salad on the menu, the sky is the limit on the questions you can ask and it works really well. Sometimes it’s a little difficult to get the whole menu in the photograph and you sometimes have to be quite a distance away to catch it. I listen to an interview, not too long ago of some of the executives at the company who are working on a feature where it will describe live video such as if you are scanning things on a street and this will be very exciting. The demonstration that they did included a man standing on a street waiting for a taxi cab and the app was able to tell him when it first sided one and when it arrived closer to him so he could flag it down.

Good luck.
Patricia
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> On Aug 15, 2024, at 9:56 PM, Paul Magill via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Gary and others,
> 
> First of all, thank you Gary for the below, I had thought that Be my 
> Eyes was only for getting help from sighted people.
> 
> I have just loaded that app onto my iPhone, and filled in the 
> necessaries, and read what I could find, but can't figure out how to, 
> "grab the graph", or when I do, how to send it to, Be my Eyes".
> 
> To be certain I have the correct app, when I searched on the appStore, 
> the closest I could find was, "Be my Eyes", with no AI in the name, 
> but in the app there is an AI section.
> 
> Could someone please explain how to get the graph information into Be my
> Eyes?   Even though I have had an iPhone for a few years now, I am a very
> long way from being proficient with it.
> 
> Appreciate any assistance you can provide.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul in Australia.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gmelconian619 at gmail.com [mailto:gmelconian619 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2024 3:39 AM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
> Cc: 'Paul Magill'
> Subject: RE: [Diabetes-Talk] Getting data from the Dexcom G6 trend 
> graph on iPhone
> 
> Another waway, you could do is to launche the be my eyes AI, and grab 
> the trend graph , share it to be my eyes ai and that way the be my 
> eyes Ai will summarize the trend graph and other  graphs to you.  As 
> well you can ask the AI, questions  to the trends on the graph or any 
> other  chart that  voice over cant read within the dexcom app . I 
> don't know how  well it works on apple devices  with voice over, but 
> it works really well on android devices with talkback, like my galaxy 
> s22, that I am running dexcom  and omni pod 5 on.  I use that  be my 
> eye Ai app to get all kinds  of charts, trend  graphs as well as 
> trends  in either direction whether I am trending high or low, which makes  things a bit more accessible in my view to use .
> 
> 
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