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I've automated almost all of my diabetes management into a level I basically can look into graphs and decide the level I want my glucose to go. For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android. Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and c…
Hey man, look into the keto diet.
I've automated almost all of my diabetes management into a level I basically can look into graphs and decide the level I want my glucose to go. For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android. Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and c…
Hey man, look into the keto diet.
An healthy dose of Minimalism will get you more peace of mind than automation. Automation might break at some point and you need to be ready to fix it.
I relocated to Germany but never studied German before and at work we all speak only English, so my German knowledge lacks a lot of words, though the grammar is OK. However here one has to deal with a huge number of letters, and there are always unknown words and phrases. So I have created a tool based on tesseract OCR, Qt and offline dictionaries of dict.cc to read letters and all kind of contracts. I also used www.…
Hi Sergz! I'm building something similar for Chinese, https://pingtype.github.io - there are a lot more letters to deal with over here. Do you have a link to your code?
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I did a similar thing, via an esp8266 device and a vibration sensor! I also automated the display of tram-departures from the tram-stop next to my house with similar hardware. Otherwise I setup some "wireless buttons" to trigger alerts/actions on my Linux desktop system, and record local temperature/humidity into a time-series database for tracking purposes.
What kind of display did you use for the tram-stop times? I wanted to do something similar but worked out that the cost to update the display every minute was too much in terms of battery life even with an epaper display. Also, it was too inconvenient / ugly to use mains power.
My idea was based on the top part of this display https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXGxPtlXkAA0inj.jpg
- Auto puause kodi/lights change color on incoming call.
- Entrance lights turn on when phones connects to wifi.
- Little flash when my wife's phone connects to wifi.
- Little color flash on whatapp notifications / incoming calls.
- Phone silences when sees my workplace wifi.
- Some speech recognition to change the lights.
Todo:
- Change light color in the morning if rain is expected.
- Plants dry alarm
- Preheat 3d printer with voice
Dish washing. I bought a dish washer and that machine gives back at least half hour of my life every day. I don't know how I lived without it. (disclaimer: I cook at home)
https://simon-schraeder.de/posts/andchill-building-alexa-ski...
Next step: Automated wine dispenser :)
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Hahaha, oh wow, that's a lot of work. I think you should learn Python and some Requests...
I don't think that would make it much simpler (if that's what you're getting at). There's tons of grunt work that just has to be done - eg. calculating expected dividend payments (by automatically matching portfolio details to dividend schedules from corporate websites), and automatically matching those to bank account credits - all through code. Despite the laughs that the VB languages get on HN, VBScript is in fact…
Why? You fetch data, calculate stuff and give out reports. Unless there is heavy javascript involved, you don't need a browser for any of this. But now you are dependent on the fragile setup you have created, hopping that VBScript, IE and your datasources will continue to work as long as you live.
Becoming independant and gaining a future ground would be a valid reason to change to a better environment. It doesn't need to be Python, but considering the requirements, Python is a very good choice for this it seems.
