sertacanbey/nightscout-cgm-desktop-monitor — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Keep a live blood glucose reading visible in the corner of a Windows desktop while working.
See color coded and arrow based alerts for low, in range, or high glucose without opening an app.
Connect the widget to a personal Nightscout server without sending data through any third party.
| sertacanbey/nightscout-cgm-desktop-monitor | 00kaku/gallery-slider-block | 04amanrajj/netwatch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | 0 |
| Language | — | JavaScript | Rust |
| Last pushed | — | 2021-05-19 | — |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | — |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | general | general | ops devops |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires Rainmeter installed and a personal Nightscout API URL to connect to.
Nightscout CGM Desktop Monitor is a small desktop widget for Windows that shows real time blood sugar readings on a computer screen. It is built using Rainmeter, a free tool that lets people add custom widgets to their Windows desktop, and it is designed to sit in the top right corner of a monitor like a thin strip of information, staying out of the way of whatever the person is working on. The widget is made for people who use Nightscout, an open source project that lets people with diabetes share their glucose monitor readings from a small sensor to the cloud so they can view them elsewhere. This desktop monitor connects directly to a person's own Nightscout web address and pulls their most recent reading, showing a number, a trend arrow pointing up, down, or sideways to show whether the level is rising or falling, and a colored vertical bar on the left side that changes color depending on whether the reading is low, in range, or high. The author states that the connection goes straight from the person's computer to their own Nightscout server, with no other company or service involved or collecting the data. Setting it up involves first installing Rainmeter itself, then downloading a packaged skin file from the project and double clicking it to install. After that, a person edits a settings file to paste in their own personal Nightscout web address, saves the file, and refreshes the widget in Rainmeter, after which live readings begin to appear. The README is written in both English and Turkish. The project has no GitHub stars yet, was made by a single developer named Sertac Canbey as a contribution to the open source diabetes technology community, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, meaning it can be reused and shared as long as credit is given to the original author.
A Rainmeter desktop widget that shows a person's live Nightscout blood glucose readings in a small HUD in the corner of the screen.
Free to reuse and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the original author.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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