Nightscout Menu Bar

A small application that displays live blood sugar data from Nightscout on your menu bar.

Works on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Install

Brew (macOS)

brew install gabe565/tap/nightscout-menu-bar --no-quarantine

Binary

Automated builds are uploaded during the release process. See the latest release for download links.

Usage

After launching Nightscout Menu Bar, you will need to open its tray menu, then hover over "Preferences" to configure the integration.

The preferences menu contains the following options:

• Nightscout URL (required)
• API Token
• Units: mg/dL or mmol/L
• Start on login
• Write to a local file (see contrib/powerlevel10k)

Additional configuration is available in a configuration file, which can be found in the following locations:

• Windows: %AppData%\nightscout-menu-bar\config.toml
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/nightscout-menu-bar/config.toml
• Linux: ~/.config/nightscout-menu-bar/config.toml

An example configuration is available at config_example.toml.

Contrib

Integrations with external tools are available in the contrib directory.

Development

The systray menu is provided by
fyne.io/systray. See
systray's platform notes
for required dependencies.

macOS

To generate a Mac app, run hack/build-darwin.sh.
An app will be created in the dist directory.