I’ve talked about how I like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies exhibiting 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 “Staff OhMyPosh” I’ve been which 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 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 phase you can 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 phase LIVE in Go.
When you’ve got an present OhMyPosh json config, you’ll be able to simply add one other phase like this. Be sure that your Nightscout URL features a safe Token or is public (as much as you). Notice additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are elective 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 isn’t actually used, as you’ll be able to see it at all times evaluates to black #000, but it surely reveals you ways you would set it to white textual content on a darker background in case you wished.
{
"kind": "nightscout",
"type": "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) in case you really feel this slows you down. It will be cached for five min so it is unlikely to b one thing you will discover. The good thing about this new OhMyPosh phase over the earlier resolution is that it requires no extra companies/chron jobs and could be setup extraordinarily shortly. Notice additionally you can customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I am going to hope to enhance the phase with mmol assist in addition to strikeout type 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, advisor, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a ebook creator.
