I’ve talked about how I like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies displaying intimately find out how 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 “Crew 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 (through 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 off readings assist) Nightscout section that you may setup in just some 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.
When you have an current OhMyPosh json config, you’ll be able to simply add one other section like this. Make sure that your Nightscout URL features a safe Token or is public (as much as you). Observe additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are elective and as much as you to vary to your style. I set my background colours to pink, yellow, inexperienced relying on sugar numbers. I even have a foreground template that’s not actually used, as you’ll be able to see it all the time evaluates to black #000, nevertheless it exhibits you the way you may set it to white textual content on a darker background should you wished.
{
"kind": "nightscout",
"fashion": "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?depend=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN",
"http_timeout": 1500,
"template": " {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}"
}
},
By default we’ll 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 may set that “http_timeout” (how lengthy earlier than we surrender) should you really feel this slows you down. It’s going to be cached for five min so it is unlikely to b one thing you may discover. The good thing about this new OhMyPosh section over the earlier answer is that it requires no extra companies/chron jobs and may be setup extraordinarily rapidly. Observe additionally that you may customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I will hope to enhance the section with mmol assist in addition to strikeout fashion for “stale” (over 15 min outdated) 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, advisor, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a e book writer.
