I’ve talked about how I really like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies displaying intimately 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 “Group OhMyPosh” I’ve been that means to put in writing a Nightscout “phase” 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 lively 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, identical to my present Git Department!
Oh My Posh helps configurable “segments” and now there is a beta (nonetheless wants mmol and rancid readings assist) Nightscout phase you could 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 content.
Here’s a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the phase LIVE in Go.
When you’ve got an present OhMyPosh json config, you may simply add one other phase like this. Ensure that your Nightscout URL features a safe Token or is public (as much as you). Be aware additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are non-compulsory and as much as you to alter 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 may see it all the time evaluates to black #000, but it surely exhibits you ways you could possibly set it to white textual content on a darker background when you needed.
{
"sort": "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?rely=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’ll be able to set that “http_timeout” (how lengthy earlier than we quit) when 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 phase over the earlier answer is that it requires no further companies/chron jobs and may be setup extraordinarily shortly. Be aware additionally you could customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I will hope to enhance the phase 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!
Sponsor: Make login Auth0’s downside. Not yours. Present the handy login options your prospects need, like social login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, passwordless, and extra. Get began at no cost.
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 creator.
