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Text recipients

Phone numbers that may later receive a reading and a link to review it. A number has to confirm a code before anything can be sent to it.

Not a safety or emergency system

Texts depend on a background sync and can arrive late or not at all. Do not rely on them for low glucose. Keep using a real-time alarm source, such as Nightscout's own alarms, for anything urgent.

When a text is sent

  • At or above 200 mg/dL and rising.
  • At or below 70 mg/dL and falling.
  • Rising and falling are measured from the change across your recent readings, not from a single trend arrow.
  • After a text of one kind, the next of that kind waits 2 hours, unless the reading gets materially worse. Even then, never less than 30 minutes apart.
  • Once a reading comes back into range, the next excursion can text you straight away.
  • A text states the reading, its trend, and a link to review it. It never suggests what to do about it.

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Retrospective reporting only

No insulin dosing, correction, diagnosis, treatment, emergency advice, device control, or background writeback.