Add "Blood Sugar" metric/invocation to Alexa Plugin #4168
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Since building the skill currently involves manually pasting in all the syntax anyway, is probably reasonable to leave custom dialect tweaks like this to the end user for now. |
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Well I don't think it disadvantages anybody so would be nice to have a universal Alexa integration that works for everyone. This after all is about making these systems accessible ... I'll take a look at adding "Blood Sugar" and Sugar Levels" etc to it tomorrow or Tuesday and post an update request to alexa plugin files to be reviewed once done. If anybody has anything else they thing should be added in terms of questions just shout up here |
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Certainly no harm in it, if you want to do up a PR. Just can imagine it getting out of hand if we start pre-loading it with all conceivable local variations, without maybe re-architecting the thing from the outset with proper language support. But probably nobody's going to do that any time soon, so go for it. :) |
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@haspden Of course univeral Alexa integration is nice. Even nicer is: universal Alexa and Google Home and 'fill in some other speech solution' integration. @unsoluble is right that there are some serious issue with the current Alexa implementation. That's why several Alexa PR's are postponed until 0.12 for now. Please browse the issues/PR's for more information on the open Alexa/Google Home issues. First problem is to find somebody who want to take ownership of the Alexa plugin code, currently Second problem is that Alexa was the first, but Google Home is second, and we also have a universal Core developers (like me and @sulkaharo) are more than welcome to help get Alexa and Google Home integration with Nightscout into shape, but that needs some effort by others too. We have found several parts of the codebase that needs serious attention before going forward. The |
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In the UK we use the words Blood Sugar often rather than Blood Glucose. It would be nice if we could add "Blood Sugar" to the list of questions we could ask.
Thanks
Henry
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