Document best way to use xDrip+ with Tizen

[jamorham]

I don't know anything about this. What is the best way to get xDrip+ data displayed on Tizen watches?

Feel free to add to this issue with any documentation and I will incorporate it to the WatchGuide.md file.

[ralf-ms]

There is one solution for tizen watches, which lets you mirror any application widget on your phone to your watch as again a widget or as a watchface. For this you have to install the app “Wearable Widgets” on your phone (google play store) and on your watch (samsung gear app store). There are 2 versions for the watch: wearable widgets as widgets and wearable widgets as wachtfaces. When you start wearable widgets on your phone you can select the widget you want to mirror to your watch. Choose the xdrip widget. On your watch you will find wearable widgets (widget version) under “additional widgets”, select this and you will get the xdrip widget on your tizen watch. If you’ve installed the wearable widget watchface you will find this under the watchfaces menu on you watch. There are some hiccups with both version though. It may happen, that after a lost bluetooth connection the widget or watchface will never get updated again (which is not obvious and sometimes hard to notice) until you delete the widget and set it up again. For the watchface you have first to choose another watchface and then switch back again. In most cases you will have no problems, but it can occur, so keep that in mind. It is therefore advisable to add the time to your widget (you do this in xdrip) to see if the bgl displayed on your watch is the actual level and not a value from hours ago (the time of the widget gets updated by the phones widget together with the bgl). If you want to use the watchface mind that the time of the widget may lag behind the actual time a few minutes.

[Tesummerill]

Great watch app when xdrip works. Someone's gotta work out the new bugs on xdrip

[Houbanny]

Hello I loved my gear S3, but because Samsung no longer supports updates for Wearable Widgets app. I use it no longer. I switched to Android Wear. Too many lost connection problems.... Can somebody with a bit of Tizen programming skills make a good app with connection to the Xdrip+ app on the phone? I know for sure many gear owners are waiting for that!!!!

[arty-name]

Here is my current solution to get at least the current glucose level and the trend to my Samsung Gear Sport.

1) I have installed WatchMaker to be able to put stuff on the watch face. 2) xDrip shows the persistent notification with the current glucose level and the trend. 3) I have installed the AutoNotification to get this value from the xDrip notification. 4) I have installed Tasker and configured it to respond to the event from AutoNotification by a) copying the notification title from the %antitle variable to the %GLUCOSE variable; and b) sending the latter to the WatchMaker 5) In the WatchMaker I have added an expression {tglucose} to my watch face.

So when xDrip updates the glucose info in the notification, AutoNotification catches that, grabs the text and gives it to Tasker, who sends it to WatchMaker, who renders it on my watch.

I don’t like this solution and this should be simpler but I worked with what I have. At least the AutoNotification should not be needed and the xDrip should provide this data in the event to the Tasker. This is already suggested in #122 but the issue seems to be abandoned.

[arty-name]

I’ve figured out that actually the AutoNotification is not needed in the setup because Tasker can extract the title of the xDrip notification by itself. It puts it into the %NTITLE variable.

[Ecco5]

Can you please give us a step by step procedure how to setup everything. I installed all the apps, but don't know how to proceed. Thanks in advance.

[arty-name]

Here you go: xDrip+ values on Tizen

[Ecco5]

That's awesome, I'm speechless. Thanks so much. Although I have a problem. The variable %NTITLE displays as 'AppPermissionMonitor:APMapplist' in Watchmaker while %TIME displays ok.

[Ecco5]

I saw that my NFC was switched off. I restarted smartphone and smartwatch and for the moment Gear S3 and Samsung S8+ are displaying the values as should. I will report if problems occur again.

[dave1812]

You don't even need an app to view Xdrip on a Tizen watch IF you use no newer version of xDrip than the 7/15/18 version. My wife and I both have Gear 2 watches and they work fine if we use the 7/15 version. Newer versions won't work and the developers haven't seen fit to fix the problem which I've complained about repeatedly, to no avail. Very frustrating!!

[Ecco5]

Dave1812, can you point out how you managed to get Xdrip version 7/15 on the Tizen watches. The method of arty-name anyhow is superb.

[dave1812]

No app needed. A uses the Android notifications to present the data on the screen every 5 minutes.

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[Ecco5]

On a Gear S3 most notifications are indeed displayed but not all. Notifications of category 'no category' from Xdrip are only diplayed on the smartphone S8+ but are not forwarded to the Gear S3. The Xdrip glucose results within range get a notification in this category. Maybe this is different for the Gear S2 or for some nightly build versions of Xdrip. On the Samsung S8+ in Settings 'Other - No Category' notification settings looks a bit different than all other categories and have less options than the other categories. You can see all this if you click and hold the notification of xdrip on your phone. Than choose details. There you can inspect and change the settings of all the Xdrip notifications.

[dave1812]

Have you tried using the 7/15 version of xDrip? They broke the functionality shortly afterwards

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On a Gear S3 most notifications are indeed displayed but not all. Notifications of category 'no category' from Xdrip are only diplayed on the smartphone S8+ but are not forwarded to the Gear S3. The Xdrip glucose results within range get a notification in this category. Maybe this is different for the Gear S2 or for some nightly build versions of Xdrip. On the Samsung S8+ in Settings 'Other - No Category' notification settings looks a bit different than all other categories and have less options than the other categories. You can see all this if you click and hold the notification of xdrip on your phone. Than choose details. There you can inspect and change the settings of all the Xdrip notifications.

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[Ecco5]

They probably changed the notification category of the measurements within range, but there was no need to. Of course with the procedure of arty-name you don't need them. Besides the continuous display of values you still get notifications of values that are out of range and that's alright. I use MiaoMiao instead of Blucon since recently and version 7/15 probably doesn't have Miao. Here my watchface. The values below are the accu levels of smartwatch en smartphone, on the right side the time the value was sent by Xdrip.

[Scorpionsc]

It is ok with Wearable Widgets on Galaxy Watch

[Ecco5]

I tried Wearable Widgets on the Samsung Gear S3 about a year ago. If the watch looses bluetooth connection for a while, the watch face usually isn't able to regain actual data. I tested again recently but still the same issue. I am using the Wearable Widgets app on the Gear S3, but mostly I have to call the app twice after each other before the data is displayed correctly. The watchface of Watchmaker with the data of Tasker is much more stable. It usually regains the connection by itself and if not, starting wachmaker is enough to fix everything.

[Parki79]

Ralf - How did you get the blue arrow on your watch and which of the two methods you described did you use to set this up?

There is one solution for tizen watches, which lets you mirror any application widget on your phone to your watch as again a widget or as a watchface. For this you have to install the app “Wearable Widgets” on your phone (google play store) and on your watch (samsung gear app store). There are 2 versions for the watch: wearable widgets as widgets and wearable widgets as wachtfaces. When you start wearable widgets on your phone you can select the widget you want to mirror to your watch. Choose the xdrip widget. On your watch you will find wearable widgets (widget version) under “additional widgets”, select this and you will get the xdrip widget on your tizen watch. If you’ve installed the wearable widget watchface you will find this under the watchfaces menu on you watch. There are some hiccups with both version though. It may happen, that after a lost bluetooth connection the widget or watchface will never get updated again (which is not obvious and sometimes hard to notice) until you delete the widget and set it up again. For the watchface you have first to choose another watchface and then switch back again. In most cases you will have no problems, but it can occur, so keep that in mind. It is therefore advisable to add the time to your widget (you do this in xdrip) to see if the bgl displayed on your watch is the actual level and not a value from hours ago (the time of the widget gets updated by the phones widget together with the bgl). If you want to use the watchface mind that the time of the widget may lag behind the actual time a few minutes.

There is one solution for tizen watches, which lets you mirror any application widget on your phone to your watch as again a widget or as a watchface. For this you have to install the app “Wearable Widgets” on your phone (google play store) and on your watch (samsung gear app store). There are 2 versions for the watch: wearable widgets as widgets and wearable widgets as wachtfaces. When you start wearable widgets on your phone you can select the widget you want to mirror to your watch. Choose the xdrip widget. On your watch you will find wearable widgets (widget version) under “additional widgets”, select this and you will get the xdrip widget on your tizen watch. If you’ve installed the wearable widget watchface you will find this under the watchfaces menu on you watch. There are some hiccups with both version though. It may happen, that after a lost bluetooth connection the widget or watchface will never get updated again (which is not obvious and sometimes hard to notice) until you delete the widget and set it up again. For the watchface you have first to choose another watchface and then switch back again. In most cases you will have no problems, but it can occur, so keep that in mind. It is therefore advisable to add the time to your widget (you do this in xdrip) to see if the bgl displayed on your watch is the actual level and not a value from hours ago (the time of the widget gets updated by the phones widget together with the bgl). If you want to use the watchface mind that the time of the widget may lag behind the actual time a few minutes.

[dave1812]

I tried wearable widgets for my Gear 2 (since xDrip hasn't fixed their issue with broken code that is preventing android notifications to go to the watch, sometime shortly after the 7/15/18 version, which does work fine), but the lack of a clock is unacceptable to my wife and I. I took a look at Wearable widgets clock faces, and there is but one meager digital clock and it's really pathetic, so I uninstalled WW and resumed the use of android notifications to show me glucose values every 5 minutes, by using the 7/15/18 version of xDrip.

[tinybunni]

I've been using the older version so I can keep the static notification on my watch so I can just scroll the side to view my blood sugar. However, I have just upgraded to a g6. Will the 7/15/18 version work with the g6 or am I just going to have to live with no longer having the notification until they fix it (if they do...I keep sending the feedback and it's still broken)

[olavogm]

Ralf - How did you get the blue arrow on your watch and which of the two methods you described did you use to set this up?

There is one solution for tizen watches, which lets you mirror any application widget on your phone to your watch as again a widget or as a watchface. For this you have to install the app “Wearable Widgets” on your phone (google play store) and on your watch (samsung gear app store). There are 2 versions for the watch: wearable widgets as widgets and wearable widgets as wachtfaces. When you start wearable widgets on your phone you can select the widget you want to mirror to your watch. Choose the xdrip widget. On your watch you will find wearable widgets (widget version) under “additional widgets”, select this and you will get the xdrip widget on your tizen watch. If you’ve installed the wearable widget watchface you will find this under the watchfaces menu on you watch. There are some hiccups with both version though. It may happen, that after a lost bluetooth connection the widget or watchface will never get updated again (which is not obvious and sometimes hard to notice) until you delete the widget and set it up again. For the watchface you have first to choose another watchface and then switch back again. In most cases you will have no problems, but it can occur, so keep that in mind. It is therefore advisable to add the time to your widget (you do this in xdrip) to see if the bgl displayed on your watch is the actual level and not a value from hours ago (the time of the widget gets updated by the phones widget together with the bgl). If you want to use the watchface mind that the time of the widget may lag behind the actual time a few minutes.

There is one solution for tizen watches, which lets you mirror any application widget on your phone to your watch as again a widget or as a watchface. For this you have to install the app “Wearable Widgets” on your phone (google play store) and on your watch (samsung gear app store). There are 2 versions for the watch: wearable widgets as widgets and wearable widgets as wachtfaces. When you start wearable widgets on your phone you can select the widget you want to mirror to your watch. Choose the xdrip widget. On your watch you will find wearable widgets (widget version) under “additional widgets”, select this and you will get the xdrip widget on your tizen watch. If you’ve installed the wearable widget watchface you will find this under the watchfaces menu on you watch. There are some hiccups with both version though. It may happen, that after a lost bluetooth connection the widget or watchface will never get updated again (which is not obvious and sometimes hard to notice) until you delete the widget and set it up again. For the watchface you have first to choose another watchface and then switch back again. In most cases you will have no problems, but it can occur, so keep that in mind. It is therefore advisable to add the time to your widget (you do this in xdrip) to see if the bgl displayed on your watch is the actual level and not a value from hours ago (the time of the widget gets updated by the phones widget together with the bgl). If you want to use the watchface mind that the time of the widget may lag behind the actual time a few minutes.

Can you help us?

Thanks!

[ralf-ms]

Hi, I choose the "wearable widgets as widgets" (and not as watchface). The trend arrows were changed a couple of months ago within the xdrip software. What you now get, is just a simple white arrow on the widget, as shown below.

[m1st0]

This is an interesting workaround with Tasker based on taking the notification glucose value %NTITLE and then sending it though to a notification path that Tizen watches for as they did for the Withings watch. Different platform, but the idea is simple enough. I haven't yet built the whole workaround through Tasker but it is an alternative if other methods are a loss. https://www.reddit.com/r/withings/comments/5h2ywy/steel_hr_notifications/

[tinybunni]

I'm having trouble getting wearable widgets to function as a widget instead of a watchface. Is there a setting for that somewhere?

[Robkeano]

Been reading your posts with great interest as recently bought a Galaxy Watch and downloaded all apps suggested before my maomiao arrived. I set up Xdrip+ and mirrored to my new watch and did the same for Tomato using Wearable Widgets (not the Watchface one as seams to have gone on Samsung Wear store).

Tomato app on my Samsung S9 phone worked well but didnt seam to be able to connect onto my Watch. So I set up Xdrip+ and followed the instructions on the MiaoMiao website. Then used less common settings within Xdrip+ to be able to you use Galaxy Watch rather than WearOS.

To my surprise and wonder it worked. It does disconnect from time to time, but in Wearable Widgets click three lines in top right and press refresh device, which re-connects the display on Watch straight away. This was using the latest version of Xdrip+ as well Feb 2019.

The only thing I cant seam to add is the time (from suggestions) to know when disconnect happened. If anyone can advise on this?

So, so happy Ive managed to set up. This will be additional ease of life functionality to life changing technology that Libre has already given me, as I play alot of tennis and work in the field on environmental surveys for work. Never mind notifications during the night. Plus Xdrip+ seams to be more accurate than Libre and closer to my Accu-chek Mobile meter and with the forcasting of lows graphically I thought that was amazing.

I did try to follow using Auto Notification and Tasker for linking to Watchmaker. But couldnt seam to repeat the instructions. I couldnt get the Glucose T to appear. I thought would test next as sounded like this option didnt drop connection out as much. See attached photo of Display on my Galaxy Watch. Hope this now works for you. Rob

[Robkeano]

[Robkeano]

Just an update. Ive now added the time to Wearable Widgets by reducing number of data types showing in Xdrip+ and expsnded the crop area of the image in Wearable Widgets so more info can be showed. So now when connection is lost, I know.

The frustrating last barrier to a fully functional watch was that it kept disconnecting repeatedly. I realised this was to do with battery saving life level limiting some background functions. So flicked to optimised battery life and hey presto a fully functional updating watch and its not lost connection all day.

So Wearable Widgets still fully works even though not updated.

Im still so impressed with all this new technology and the functionality of Xdrip+ is fantastic the more I get to know how to use it.

[Robkeano]

[Robkeano]

p.s I meant to say changed the battery life setting on my S9 mobile.

[Mr-Enigma]

@arty-name can i ask how to get the "difference since last reading" value on the watchface? i currently use your method to have tasker put the glucose value and trend / time on the face but would be great to also have the difference value from the notification also.

[arty-name]

@Mr-Enigma I don’t think this is possible. We can only use values Tasker puts into variables for us and I only see NTITLE related to notification. Maybe you could get more data using the AutoNotification as I originally suggested.

[Mr-Enigma]

managed it, looks great now :)

[arty-name]

Nice! Could you please provide a bit more details on how you did it?

[Mr-Enigma]

of course, il make a step by step as soon as possible

[Mr-Enigma]

At the time of writing this requires 3 paid apps, Tasker (£2.99), AutoNotification (£2.19) and WatchMaker companion app (£1.99)

1. Download Tasker (paid), AutoNotification(paid) and WatchMaker from the Google Play Store
2. Install the WatchMaker companion app (paid) onto the watch using the Galaxy Store, set WatchMaker as your watch face.
3. Make sure Xdrip is running and the ongoing notification is displayed.
4. Launch Tasker (accept permissions if it asks.)
5. Press the plus icon at the bottom right of the screen while on profile tab (name it notification)
6. Press Event
7. Press Plugin
8. Press AutoNotification
9. Then Intercept
10. Press the grey pencil button next to configuration
11. You will recieve warnings to allow access for AutoNotification to view your Notifications, allow it you may also recieve a warning about Doze, allow that.
12. Press Fill From Current
13. Press Notification and select the Xdrip+ notification
14. Enable the Notification App and Notification Id
15. Press the confirm check mark at the top right of the screen twice
16. Then press the back arrow
17. This returns you back to Tasker, select New Task (call it Var)
18. Press the plus button located at the bottom right
19. Select Variables then Variables Set
20. For name type %GLUCOSE and for To type %antitle %TIME
21. Press the back arrow
22. Again press the plus button, select Variables then Variables Set
23. For name type %DELTA and for To type %ansummarytext then press the back arrow.
24. Press the plus button once again, select Plugin then WatchMaker and WM Send Variable.
25. Press the grey pencil next to Configuration.
26. In the Tasker Variable box type %GLUCOSE then press done.
27. Press the back arrow once.
28. Press the plus button once again, select Plugin then WatchMaker and WM Send Variable.
29. press the grey pencil next to Configuration.
30. Type %DELTA in the Tasker Variable box then press done.
31. Press the back arrow twice then press the confirm check at the top right corner of Tasker
32. Allow 5 mins to elapse so the data is sent to WatchMaker then launch WatchMaker on your phone.
33. Press the 3 dots located at the top right corner and select New Watch
34. Press the green pencil icon and then the plus button.
35. Select Time and drag the clock position to suit
36. Press the plus button again this time select Expression.
37. Press the white box at the top and type {tglucose} then press done.
38. Drag the glucose positioning to suit.
39. Press the plus button again and select Expression.
40. Press the white box and type {tdelta} press done, position to suit.
41. (optional) scroll down to text size and reduce the size of the delta text to suit.
42. Press the back arrow.
43. Press the green watch icon to send the watch face to your watch.

[arty-name]

Thanks a lot, @Mr-Enigma!

[ghost]

At the time of writing this requires 3 paid apps, Tasker (£2.99), AutoNotification (£2.19) and WatchMaker companion app (£1.99)

1. Download Tasker (paid), AutoNotification(paid) and WatchMaker from the Google Play Store
2. Install the WatchMaker companion app (paid) onto the watch using the Galaxy Store, set WatchMaker as your watch face.
3. Make sure Xdrip is running and the ongoing notification is displayed.
4. Launch Tasker (accept permissions if it asks.)
5. Press the plus icon at the bottom right of the screen while on profile tab (name it notification)
6. Press Event
7. Press Plugin
8. Press AutoNotification
9. Then Intercept
10. Press the grey pencil button next to configuration
11. You will recieve warnings to allow access for AutoNotification to view your Notifications, allow it you may also recieve a warning about Doze, allow that.
12. Press Fill From Current
13. Press Notification and select the Xdrip+ notification
14. Enable the Notification App and Notification Id
15. Press the confirm check mark at the top right of the screen twice
16. Then press the back arrow
17. This returns you back to Tasker, select New Task (call it Var)
18. Press the plus button located at the bottom right
19. Select Variables then Variables Set
20. For name type %GLUCOSE and for To type %antitle %TIME
21. Press the back arrow
22. Again press the plus button, select Variables then Variables Set
23. For name type %DELTA and for To type %ansummarytext then press the back arrow.
24. Press the plus button once again, select Plugin then WatchMaker and WM Send Variable.
25. Press the grey pencil next to Configuration.
26. In the Tasker Variable box type %GLUCOSE then press done.
27. Press the back arrow once.
28. Press the plus button once again, select Plugin then WatchMaker and WM Send Variable.
29. press the grey pencil next to Configuration.
30. Type %DELTA in the Tasker Variable box then press done.
31. Press the back arrow twice then press the confirm check at the top right corner of Tasker
32. Allow 5 mins to elapse so the data is sent to WatchMaker then launch WatchMaker on your phone.
33. Press the 3 dots located at the top right corner and select New Watch
34. Press the green pencil icon and then the plus button.
35. Select Time and drag the clock position to suit
36. Press the plus button again this time select Expression.
37. Press the white box at the top and type {tglucose} then press done.
38. Drag the glucose positioning to suit.
39. Press the plus button again and select Expression.
40. Press the white box and type {tdelta} press done, position to suit.
41. (optional) scroll down to text size and reduce the size of the delta text to suit.
42. Press the back arrow.
43. Press the green watch icon to send the watch face to your watch.

Hi - I tried to do this, but when I select 'Notification' I get an error message 'Missing Permissions NOTIFICATION ACCESS'. I tried to grant access through the app, and also write access through FX, but no joy. Any ideas please?

[Mr-Enigma]

AutoNotification and Tasker need a special permission, usually it takes you right there with the pop-up.

its located here :

from your home screen, press settings then the magnifying glass search button and type notification access, then press notification access twice to get there.

[ghost]

Thanks. Got it. Just waiting 5 minutes now....Fingers crosses. I have 2 other questions if you don't mind. Can you have the glucose as a complication on a fancy watch face, like a chronograph? And is there any way of getting the miaomiao to work with the Galaxy Watch on a standalone basis (i.e. no phone)? Many thanks for your help and your prompt reply. I'm really grateful.

[Mr-Enigma]

Thanks. Got it. Just waiting 5 minutes now....Fingers crosses. I have 2 other questions if you don't mind. Can you have the glucose as a complication on a fancy watch face, like a chronograph? And is there any way of getting the miaomiao to work with the Galaxy Watch on a standalone basis (i.e. no phone)? Many thanks for your help and your prompt reply. I'm really grateful.

For chronograph there is the option to not select Time at part 35 and instead select "Hour+min marker" aswell as the "Watch Hand" and drag them into place, or use one of the preset watch faces but they would look a little strange with the Glucose and Delta text. I personally havn't tried them as i prefer digital :)

There probably is a way to get the Tizen OS to work as a collector but it would be alot of work and Tizen has alot of restrictions. So as of now we dont have that unfortunately.

[ghost]

Thanks Mr Enigma!

[ghost]

I had a little play around and took out the Delta and Time readings and ended up with this. I quite like it (though I suspect I'll be playing endlessly with it!)

[Mr-Enigma]

looks good :)

[ghost]

Thanks! If you very decide to take the time and hassle to try to make Galaxy a collector, or you see someone else has, could you please post here again? Cheers.

[arty-name]

I think I have figured out a much more convenient way to set up Tasker the way we want. Recently it added a feature of exporting configurations to TaskerNet and importing them from it.

Someone having Tasker installed could get my configurations by opening this Glucose task page on their phone and clicking "import", followed by opening this XDrip+ notification profile page and importing there as well.

@Mr-Enigma you can create similar links for your configuration by 1) making sure your Tasker is not in beginner mode; 2) long-pressing the profile or task name to "select"; and 3) selecting Export -> As Link from the three-dots menu in the header.

[Mr-Enigma]

sure thing i will look into it

[tinybunni]

Is there any way to make the wearable widget show as a widget you scroll over to rather than as a watchface?

[mikaelkleman]

how can i get wearable widget as watch face, i know i had it before but now i don´t. the whole xdrip with tasker stops working all the time and wont show the latest notifications and i have to open watchmaker to get it to work again. i have a samsung watch. is it just me that have problem with watch maker stopping all the time and not start without action from me?

[JayType1]

Hi Mr Enigma

I followed your instructions and slowly getting there but have a couple of issues that maybe you could assist with?

I've got tasker to work and show sugars cant seem to display on watch as shown below could you advise what Ive done wrong?

Jay

[Mr-Enigma]

huh that is a odd one, could i see the inside of your tasks? and the expressions on watchmaker?

not sure where it is pulling %NTITLE from.