I’ve talked about how I really like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies exhibiting intimately easy methods to do it. I’ve additionally labored with my buddy TooTallNate to place my real-time blood sugar right into a bash or PowerShell immediate, however this was again in 2017.
Now that I am “Staff OhMyPosh” I’ve been that means to put in writing a Nightscout “section” for my immediate. Nightscout is an open supply self-hosted (there are business hosts additionally like T1Pal) web site and API for distant show of real-time and near-real-time glucose readings for Diabetics like myself.
Since my physique has an energetic REST API the place I can simply do an HTTP GET (by way of curl or no matter) and see my blood sugar, it clearly belongs in a spot of honor, similar to my present Git Department!
Oh My Posh helps configurable “segments” and now there is a beta (nonetheless wants mmol and rancid readings help) Nightscout section you can setup in only a few minutes!
This immediate works in ANY shell on ANY os! You are able to do this in zsh, PowerShell, Bash, no matter makes you cheerful.
Here’s a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the section LIVE in Go.
You probably have an present OhMyPosh json config, you possibly can simply add one other section like this. Make sure that your Nightscout URL features a safe Token or is public (as much as you). Word additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are non-compulsory and as much as you to vary to your style. I set my background colours to crimson, yellow, inexperienced relying on sugar numbers. I even have a foreground template that’s not actually used, as you possibly can see it at all times evaluates to black #000, however it reveals you the way you could possibly set it to white textual content on a darker background should you wished.
{
"kind": "nightscout",
"model": "diamond",
"foreground": "#ffffff",
"background": "#ff0000",
"background_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#FFFF00{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#FF0000{{ end }}",
"#00FF00"
],
"foreground_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"#000000"
],"leading_diamond": "",
"trailing_diamond": "uE0B0",
"properties": {
"url": "https://YOURNIGHTSCOUTAPP.herokuapp.com/api/v1/entries.json?rely=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN",
"http_timeout": 1500,
"template": " {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}"
}
},
By default we are going to solely exit and hit your Nightscout occasion each 5 min, solely when the immediate is repainted, and we’ll solely wait 1500ms earlier than giving up. You’ll be able to set that “http_timeout” (how lengthy earlier than we quit) should you really feel this slows you down. It will be cached for five min so it is unlikely to b one thing you may discover. The advantage of this new OhMyPosh section over the earlier answer is that it requires no extra providers/chron jobs and will be setup extraordinarily rapidly. Word additionally you can customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I am going to hope to enhance the section with mmol help in addition to strikeout model for “stale” (over 15 min previous) outcomes. You are additionally welcome to assist out by watching our YouTube and submitting a PR!
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About Scott
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, guide, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a e book writer.
