How to deploy Nightscout LibreLinkUp Uploader on Google Cloud?

[mduiella]

Hello,
my wife has been using FreeStyle 2 sensors with XDrip4iOS and Nightscout on Google Cloud (having moved from Railway and previously Heroku).
Now, she is being "upgraded" to FreeStyle 3 (we live in Belgium). I have been searching for ways to continue using xdrip with FS3, and found the workaround of having Nightscout receive the data from LibreLinkUp, and setting XDrip4iOS as follower of Nightscout. My only problem is that, with almost zero programming knowledge, I don't know how to add the Nightscout LibreLinkUp Uploader (https://github.com/timoschlueter/nightscout-librelink-up) to my wife's Nightscout which runs on Google Cloud (assuming that this is even possible...).
So: is this technically feasible? If yes, how can it be done?

If it's not feasible/too complex/messy, I am also happy to just go back to Heroku, and pay them what they deserve.

Many thanks in advance,
Matteo

PS: My wife activated her last FS2 sensor last night, so I have 14 days to fix this :)
PPS: I am posting this message here also because I imagine that many T1D persons (as well as their parents, partners, etc.) around the EU will be in a similar situation as FS3 progressively replaces FS2.

[Navid200]

The Nightscout that you run in Google Cloud Nightscout, by default, is the same Nightscout you would run on Heroku.
If you want, you can customize your Nightscout. But, by default, it is identical.

If anyone has ever told you that you cannot do something with Google Cloud Nightscout that you could with Heroku, or any other Nightsocut server, they have intentionally or unintentionally misled you.

If you know how to enable an uploader on Heroku and doing the same fails on Google Cloud Nightscout, I would love to know the details.

[mduiella]

No problem :)
we gave it a try...
I need to log off now, many thanks again for having taken the time!

[mduiella]

Dear @navid,

FYI, I gave it another try, and now it sort-of worked.
First, I tried moving the start.sh file from the home directory to the /LibreLinkup/nightscout-librelink-up/ directory, but I still couldn't manage to run it.
So, I decided to enter the commands manually one by one (that is, exporting the variables and then executing the command npm start).
This time, it seems to have worked, as the programme is logging in to LibreLinkUP to retrieve the data every 5 mins.

I would still have one question: above you said that this was just for testing, and I would have to start.sh again every time Google Cloud Nightscout restarts. So, what would one need to do to have this permanently set up?

Many thanks again for your support!
Matteo

[Navid200]

Thanks for getting it going?

I don't have an answer to your question. What I stated was just speculation. I have no way of testing this because I have no Libre.
The person who has written the script can tell you what you should do differently so that start.sh runs as intended. And he can tell you if restarting will work or not.

[mduiella]

ok, I will inquire with the person who developed the script,
Many thanks again for your support!

[Sleepy46]

@mduiella can you explain your solution exactly?
I have the same Problem with the Uploader

[Navid200]

Nightscout is open source. There may be more than one repository providing Nightsocut.
Nightscout has capabilities and documentation and those may differ from one repository to another.

In order to run Nightscout, you need a server. There are several server options.

Google Cloud Nightscout is one server option. Google Cloud Nightscout is not a version of Nightscout.

If you have questions about Google Cloud Nightscout, we can help. If you have questions about Nightscout itself, this is not the best place for asking. It doesn't hurt. But, you may get more relevant answers asking in Nightsocut repositories or support forums.

[tzachi-dar]

There is an option for xDrip to work with libre3 without the site that you have mentioned.
See https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/lt/latest/Hardware/Libre3.html for more details.

Alternatively, deploying the app you want on a google server is probably possible, but might mess up your server.
So, first open another vm (might be on another project).
Than you need to deploy the app mentioned like every other js app on that server.
You might see how nightscout is installed, but if you are not a programmer, this might be hard for you to do.
I suggest that you will stick with the first option.

[mduiella]

Thanks,
yes, I had seen also this possibility with Juggluco, but it's only for Android.

[navid]

i am the wrong navid btw

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