I’ve talked about how I really like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies displaying intimately the best way 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 “Group OhMyPosh” I’ve been which means to jot down 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 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 section LIVE in Go.
When you’ve got an present 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). Word additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are optionally available 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, nevertheless it exhibits you ways you may set it to white textual content on a darker background if you happen to needed.
{
"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 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 possibly can set that “http_timeout” (how lengthy earlier than we hand over) if you happen to really feel this slows you down. It’s going to be cached for five min so it is unlikely to b one thing you will discover. The good thing about this new OhMyPosh section over the earlier resolution is that it requires no further providers/chron jobs and might be setup extraordinarily rapidly. Word additionally you could 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 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, marketing consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a e book writer.
