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Alarms, Action and Reminder Notications 1313 Alarms, Action and Reminder Notications
13.3. Sounds and Vibrations
e Omnipod 5 System uses sounds and vibrations to attract your attention to an
alarm or notication.
Caution: AVOID setting your Controller to Silent, Vibrate or any other
setting that prevents you from hearing alarms and notications from your
Omnipod 5 App. If you do not hear alarms and notications from your
Controller, you might not make the changes you need to make to your insulin
therapy in a timely manner. Your Pod will still sound, and you will be able see
the Alarm or Notication displayed on the Omnipod 5 App.
Tip: To test the sounds and vibrations, see “Check alarms” on page 151.
Pod alarms
e Pod sounds a tone when it detects a problem that can aect insulin delivery.
• Pod hazard alarms are continuous tones broken up periodically by a set of
beeps.
• Pod advisory alarms and notications are intermittent beeps, which
periodically repeat until you acknowledge them.
Omnipod 5 App alarms
Omnipod 5 App alarm sounds are dependent on your Controller sound settings,
for example, silent or vibrate.
The Sound/vibrate button on your Controller
e Sound/vibrate button, located on the upper right side of the Controller,
controls whether all notications use vibrations or sounds.
• To turn vibrations ON, press and hold the lower end of the Sound/vibrate
button until the vibrate icon (
) appears on the screen.
• To turn sound ON, press the upper end of the Sound/vibrate button until the
sound icon (
) appears on the screen.
• To increase or decrease the volume, press the upper or lower end of the
Sound/vibrate button. On the screen, you can also move the volume indicator
to the le to decrease the volume and move it to the right to increase the
volume.