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Nightscout/IFTTT Maker

Overview

In addition to Nightscout's web-based alarms, your site can also trigger push notifications (or other actions) through the IFTTT Maker service. With Maker you are able to integrate with all the other IFTTT Services. For example, you can send a tweet when there is an alarm, change the color of a smart light, send an email, send a text, and much more.

Note: There have been some recent reports of the IFTTT service delaying Nightscout alarms. Be sure to test your implementation before relying solely on its alerts. Pushover is an alternate push notification service that might be worth considering as well.

Events

Plugins can create custom events, but all events sent to Maker will be prefixed with ns-. The core events are:

  • ns-event - This event is sent on all alarms and notifications. This is good catch-all event for general logging.
  • ns-allclear - This event is sent when an alarm has been acknowledged or when the server starts up without triggering any alarms. (For example, you could use this event to turn a light to green.)
  • ns-info - All notifications at the info level will cause this event to be triggered.
  • ns-warning - All notifications at the warning level will cause this event to be triggered.
  • ns-urgent - All notifications at the urgent level will cause this event to be triggered.
  • ns-warning-high - This event is triggered when crossing the BG_TARGET_TOP threshold.
  • ns-urgent-high - This event is triggered when crossing the BG_HIGH threshold.
  • ns-warning-low - This event is triggered when crossing the BG_TARGET_BOTTOM threshold.
  • ns-urgent-low - This event is triggered when crossing the BG_LOW threshold.
  • ns-info-treatmentnotify - This event is triggered when a treatment is entered into the careportal.
  • ns-warning-bwp - This event is triggered when the bwp plugin generates a warning alarm.
  • ns-urgent-bwp - This event is triggered when the bwp plugin generates an urgent alarm.

Creating an Applet

Set up an IFTTT account, and log into it.

1. Choose a Service

On the "My Applets" page, click "New Applet", then click the blue +this. Search for "webhooks" among the services, and click it.

service_search

2. Choose a Trigger

Click on the "Receive a web request" box.

3. Complete the Trigger field

Enter one of the Nightscout events listed above (like ns-urgent-low), and click "Create Trigger".

set_trigger

4. Create an Action

Click on the blue +that.

blue_that

Search for the action you'd like this event to trigger. In this example, we'll choose the Notifications action to send a push notification.

action_search

Choose the "Send a notification from the IFTTT app" action type for a basic push alert. You can experiment with the "rich" notifications later.

5. Complete Action Fields

Enter the message that will display in this push notification. In this example, it was triggered on an ns-urgent-low, so we'll write something like "Urgent Low!". We can also display the current BG by including the Value2 ingredient (via the "Add ingredient" button).

Click the "Create action" button when you're done.

notification_message

6. Review and Finish

Click the "Finish" button if your applet looks good.

7. Get your Maker Key

Click on "My Applets" in the main menu, then click the "Services" tab, then search for "Webhooks" and select it.

service_settings_search

Go to the Settings for this service, in the upper right.

webhooks_settings

The string of characters at the end of the URL here is your MAKER_KEY. Copy it from there, so we can paste it into your Config Vars.

maker_key

8. Configure your Nightscout site

From your Heroku dashboard, go to your app's Settings page, then click the "Reveal Config Vars" button. Find the MAKER_KEY entry, and edit its value, pasting in your Maker Key. If you don't already have a MAKER_KEY line, add it to the bottom of the list.

config_vars_maker

Find your ENABLE line, and add maker to the list of enabled plugins.

config_vars_enable

9. Configure the IFTTT mobile app

That's all of the services complete. In order to receive push notifications on a mobile device, you'll need to have the IFTTT app installed and logged into the same account you set up the actions in.

To add more alerts for different events, just create a new applet for each trigger.