Important/useful information about Spike

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Hi,

Some information about Spike:
Spike is an iPhone application that allows you to read your Dexcom or FreeStyle Libre sensor, in the latter case it will convert it to a full-fledged rt-CGM. Spike offers highly customizable alarms, extensive Nightscout integrations and can feed data to other apps. Spike is also renowned for its very extensive treatments manager which includes an extensive Food Manager (a database you can fill containing all nutrition information) that can feed info directly to your carb counter and/or the bolus calculator and upload that to Nightscout.

Spike comes as a pre-built IPA that has to be "re-signed", which makes the application slightly more cumbersome to install than others. Installation instructions can be found on this link.

Please note:
1.) Spike isn't being developed anymore. It has been on life support by yours truly for the last +/- 4 years (by finding new ways of deploying it and working around known issues and my surprise it still works, even on iOS 17, is quite prominently there). Spike can't communicate with Dexcom G6/ONE firefly types, G7 or FSL2. It is however an amazing app to have as a follower to your Nightscout thanks to its treatments manager/Food Manager. If you don't care about that, you might not wish to bother deploying Spike.
2.) Spike's source code isn't available. It relies on Adobe AIR runtime environment and parts of those libraries are unfortunately under a proprietary license, making it impossible for the developers to disclose the full source.

- General instruction manual (highly recommendable/mandatory read):
https://spike-app.com/ (Note: outdated, do not use install instructions there.)
- GitHub:
https://github.com/SpikeApp/Spike (Instructions may be outdated)
- Installation instructions:
https://diyabetes.net/forum/index.php?topic=3.0
- Donations*:
The project does NOT seek donations anymore.

If you wish to ask any question, please consult the online manual first, use the search function and look through existing topics (if any ).