Feature Request Custom data field / CGM Data
Not planned
I am not sure what is the official way to enter a feature request but I would really like to ask for one. It has been asked at https://support.hammerhead.io/hc/en-us/community/posts/4414700476315-Side-Load-Blood-Glucose-apps- already but maybe it was overseen.
Garmin has the connect IQ SDK which is very nice, maybe too much for hammerhead to do, but I would really like to have the possibility to have a custom data field that can display data scraped from some URL or a different app.
The actual requirement for me and fellow diabetics would be to display the Blood glucose values on the unit like it can be done via the xdrip+/spike data field on garmin via connect IQ.
I managed to side load xdrip+ on the karoo so the values are already available on the karoo unit and could be extracted by connecting to an http url. No need for Hammerhead to get involved in FDA approval or some such as long as you just offer a possibility to extract data from a web url (of course, incorporating our own code would be even better, but probably too difficult to be worth the hassle).
Is there any chance? Not sure what other custom data fields would be interesting (runtime of bike lights maybe?) but the CGM data would be good for all diabetics and I also know from athletes that have no illness of this type who want to track their blood glucose with Dexcom sensors or similar hardware so they get warned before they get hypoglycaemia
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o.k. I do understand that you can only do so much with your time, but please consider that roughly 10% of the worlds population are diabetics and CGM Data is essential for those to be able to do longer workouts. I needed to stop competitive triathlon when I got the disease and there was no CGM available back then.
I will then need to go back to my garmin edge 1030 which has this feature. It is a pity since Karoo software has come a long way since I got it and I like some of the things much better then the garmin version.
For me it would be sufficcient to just display somenumbers scraped from a text website via http(s)
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I have asked for a CGM data field on the Karoo several times. This response is more than I got, as depressing as it is.
I have been an insulin dependent diabetic for over 53 years and an avid cyclist for over 50 years.
It's discouraging that incorporating the best technology ever developed for diabetic control with the best exercise available for blood sugar control ranks so low on Hammerhead's priority scheme.
Your competition did it. So can you.
Please reprioritize and elevate this data request. -
This seems like an incredible feature that would differentiate across all brands. They could sponsor the famous all type 1 diabetic cycling team https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/
In the meantime guys, I'm wondering if you can sideload the app?
Once you are in the app, if you long hold the bottom right corner you can switch apps.
I did this for Gaia GPS as I needed to be able to look at the Land Owner and Trail Forks overlays when in a bind.
Let me know if you need any help. I did this on OS X.
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Actually, Karoo does have an SDK like Garmin Connect IQ. It is available here:
https://github.com/hammerheadnav/karoo-sdk
So anyone with knowledge can create their own extensions
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Several people in this discussion said they would like ot have it, but only one of them upvoted it. Why?
@Don Myers: thanks for this link, I will look into it. Looks promising at first glance.
@Jim Neilson: Yes, xdrip+ complains that it needs google services, but this is only neccessary for some follower functionality according to the developers. It works fine without google services for everything I need it to do. Recent dev versions also support chosing the primary or alternate channel for dexcom via preferences so it can also run in parallel with xdrip+ on the phone. I tried it and it works with a somewhat recent Dexcom G5 Transmitter. Could not get it to work with my old 80XXXX with the custom rechargeable Battery, though.
The only problem is that you cannot have your BG without switching the app which makes it hardly usable. For us T1D BG values are much more important than Heart Rate so it would be good to keep it visible at all times.
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This is now resolved !!!
Any Diabetic Hammerhead Karoo Users...
We now have a Nightscout CGM Blood Glucose data field !!!A massive thanks to valterc for his help on this one too !!!
Instructions at
https://github.com/haspden/INFLITE-TYPE-ONE-Hammerhead-CGMDownload the latest release at
https://github.com/haspden/INFLITE-TYPE-ONE-Hammerhead-CGM/releases -
Thanks for sharing this!
Do I understand this correctly, that it pulls data from nightscout so it needs an active internet connection in order to display the data? No direct grabbing from xdrip+ like the garmin CIQ datafield does which would also work in areas which bad/no cell phone coverage?
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The supersapian app itself not directly.
However you could grab data from the Abbott freestyle libre sensor itself with a range of options. including but not limited to, Xdrip, Xdrip4ios, Spike etc.
More info available at
https://nightscout.github.io/uploader/uploaders/ -
as there is a companion app on the phone, would it be possible to grab only certain app data from the phone and show it on the karoo 2 ?
I have a medtronics pump 780G with GL4, i cannot use nightscoot. but i have notifications (discreet) on the phone so i guess it can be push to the karoo2 companion then to the karro 2 somehow ?!
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