Open-Source Home Automation
EditedTo Add: well, that was meant to be a minor comment and request for pointers but turned into somewhat of a rant.  My apologies HMN, my apologies.  This kind of dashboard really does have the possibility of reducing the overdoses I am subjecting amongst any number of other mistakes brought about by lack of clear and understandable documentation.  And once we have fixed it for me, well from THEREON IS WHERE WE TAKE OVER THE WORLD!<p>On a slightly related note, does anybody remember that about a year or so ago somebody posted his  "Personal Analytics Dashboard" I think he called it. Basically it detailed every aspect of his life. it was things like heart rate, steps walked, miles run, cycles cycled  along with all manner of other nutritional input.<p>The thing that marked it out for me was that it took all those desperate threads of information and display them in one easy to understand and beautiful layout.  But I cannot for the life of me find it!<p>At the moment I want to get to the state that when one of the nurses comes on duty, she can get the iPad out of the server cupboard (after first pressing her flic button to login) and see on one or two pages things like but not limited to:<p>* Is the catheter turn on or off<p>* What is the bosses current heart rate  (BPM)<p>* What is today's resting heart rate and how does it fit in over the week, the month and the year<p>* Which of the doors and windows are open and are they locked or not<p>* Did the boss get into his wheelchair today, and if so for how long and how far did he travel<p>* How many doses of his medication has he had today, and how many does that leave him with for the rest of the day<p>* Have there been any incidences of Autononmic Dysreflexia[1]  or any other life-threatening shenanigans other parts of the team  will need to know about<p>And on and on and on, so it would need to be expandable.  It may be possible to skin home assistance with something simple enough but I am not a designer.<p>I've lots of this data coming in already from lots of different sensors, I am however just struggling with a way of turning those data into information that non-technical users will not be put off by.  Because if they are put off by it then they will not use the system, and as this is going to be one of the systems monitoring medication and my health et cetera I would really like them to use.  Non-technical users make up the huge majority of people who will be using this system.<p>And to pre-empt what I know one of you will mention because you care about me, I do not ever put my life in the hands of anyone person, process, widget or anything else!  It's nice to know you care.  <3<p>I also hate spreadsheets.  I mean, I will continue to use them obviously because there is no choice.  Just thought world should know that I hate them.<p>So yes I am pretty much totally comfortable purchasing sensors and  and getting my work PA to install them, I'm also having enormous fun creating new sensors but what I am not enjoying is being quadriplegic and trying to draw out nice designs.<p>Have a feeling it is not necessary and that there will be a simple way for me to plug in all of my data streams and be given a very shiny dashboard that I could maybe put on the wall of my office on some 17 inch screen something similar.<p>---------
I've included a couple of links describing autonomic dysreflexia, but be warned it's not a nice condition and it is not fun having one of these episodes.  Not happy reading, just put them here for completeness<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/health/secondary-conditions/autonomic-dysreflexia" rel="nofollow">https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/healt...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia</a>