I’ve talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do it. I’ve additionally labored with my buddy TooTallNate to put my real-time blood sugar into a bash or PowerShell prompt, however this was again in 2017.
Now that I am “Crew OhMyPosh” I’ve been that means to jot down a Nightscout “phase” for my immediate. Nightscout is an open supply self-hosted (there are commercial hosts also 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, identical to my present Git Department!
Oh My Posh supports configurable “segments” and now there is a beta (nonetheless wants mmol and rancid readings help) Nightscout segment 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 content.
Here’s a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the phase LIVE in Go.
When you’ve got an current OhMyPosh json config, you possibly can simply add one other phase like this. Make certain 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-obligatory and as much as you to alter to your style. I set my background colours to purple, yellow, inexperienced relying on sugar numbers. I even have a foreground template that isn’t actually used, as you possibly can see it at all times evaluates to black #000, however it exhibits you ways you could possibly set it to white textual content on a darker background for those who needed.
{
"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 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 surrender) for those who 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 further providers/chron jobs and will be setup extraordinarily shortly. Be aware additionally that you may customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I am going to hope to enhance the phase with mmol help 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, marketing consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a e-book writer.
