# G5 Algoritm and xDrip+
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914
**Category:** Tips, Tech & Gear
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914 "2018-04-17T18:59:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914/1 "2018-04-17T18:59:19Z")
For you folks who are simply too tied to the Dexcom algorithm to try xDrip+, I’d like to let you know that xDrip+ includes the Dexcom transmitter algorithm for your Bg tracking pleasure.
The transmitter algorithm also enforces the 2 hr. initial warm-up , and you have to manually start the sensor after 7 days. It is unknown at this point whether the transmitter stops transmitting after 112 days use, but an automatic switchover to xDrip+ has been programmed.
It is in the latest beta and can be found under “G5 debug”.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914/2 "2018-04-17T20:48:13Z")
> [@docslotnick](#):
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> I’d like to let you know that xDrip+ includes the Dexcom transmitter algorithm for your Bg tracking pleasure.
I think there is an xDrip starter’s guide posted somewhere around here. If you know where it is, maybe you can post a link for people not familiar with xDrip.
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914/3 "2018-04-17T22:23:48Z")
I posted it, but as soon as I heard you were looking for, I deleted it 👿
Seriously, changes have been coming so fast that as soon as I finished it was outdated. It’s also an incredibly difficult project. Besides my innate laziness.
So, no, there has been no starters guide published, here or elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/g5-algoritm-and-xdrip/3914/4 "2018-04-17T23:26:07Z")
> [@docslotnick](#):
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> I posted it, but as soon as I heard you were looking for, I deleted it
No, it wasn’t really for me. Just for anyone else that is interested in doing XDrip.
Dexcom is frequently way off the mark for me, and I don’t think xDrip makes it more accurate. So no real reason for me to use it.