M5_NightscoutMon VS ntfy

a) in my bedroom, a https://github.com/mlukasek/M5_NightscoutMon display

The M5Stack NightscoutMon is handy, if a little DIY. I like it a lot but have had to modify the config file to turn off the speaker. We also use the apps for FitBit, Garmin, and Apple watches.

1) I built a https://github.com/mlukasek/M5_NightscoutMon M5 NightScoutMon. It's a little 2" display that shows my blood sugar. Doesn't work on my work's WIFI network ;-{

I use an M5Stack which follows my Nightscout account. Takes s little bit of setting up to do but you can read more about it here: https://github.com/mlukasek/M5_NightscoutMon

2) Nightscout Monitor. If you setup a nightscout site (nightscout is a diabetes infomation platform), you can put together (and by put together I mean order a piece of hardware, and then run a piece of software on your computer to upgrade it) a little screen called M5_NightscoutMon that will always show your blood sugar in numbers easy enough to see across the room for <$50. Not only does it give you more visibility into your blood sugar, it's an easy way for other people to know how you're doing. It runs off wifi, and I set mine so it will use the wifi at home, work, or the hotspot on my phone. On long road trips I bring it with me in the car!

Slightly related, but I've also been working on and off for a few years on my own Type 1 Diabetes management solution (https://github.com/algao1/iv3).

I haven't had time to work on it recently, but it uses ntfy (https://ntfy.sh/) to send alerts and such.

I was thinking of eventually incorporating some kind of automatic remedial solution eventually to help keep my glucose in range, but haven't had any time to look into it yet.

If you go to the settings, there should be a notification category, which then contains another menu "App Notifications" where you can see all the apps that are allowed to receive notifications, but I don't know if this will stop google play services to receive these identifiers.

I use GrapheneOS, so I don't have any google play services running, but for the apps where I need notifications I use https://unifiedpush.org/ (only a few apps implement it) and I host my own https://ntfy.sh server.

Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING.

In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notification problem without needing Twitter, and I've used it since then to let me know when long-running scripts complete.

I connect any app that supports https://unifiedpush.org/ to a self hosted https://ntfy.sh instance for fully self hosted push notifications

changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh

For further monitoring & alerting about critical cpu temperatures (unlikely now) for example, I plan to use notify & something else. Haven't thought about this much yet though.

I've started tossing https://ntfy.sh/ alerts into my Deno apps to get push notifications for things I'm interested in

ntfy.sh

If it was for fun and to learn how, that's fair. But are you aware of https://ntfy.sh?