Nightscout explained simply: what is Nightscout and who is it for?

Nightscout explained simply

Nightscout (“CGM in the Cloud”) is a free, open-source system that collects your glucose values in real time and makes them accessible from anywhere: in the browser, on your phone and for your family.

What is Nightscout?

Nightscout takes the values from your glucose sensor (CGM) and stores them in your own database. From this a live curve is created with trend, prediction and alarms: reachable at your own web address. You decide who is allowed to follow along.

That is exactly what CGM remote monitoring is: the values are not only on your own phone but, if you allow it, also visible from afar. Parents see their child's value from work, a partner is woken at night during a hypo. And all of this independent of the manufacturer: whether Dexcom, Freestyle Libre or Medtrum: the values flow into your Nightscout via apps like xDrip+, AndroidAPS or Loop.

  • Open Source: developed by a worldwide diabetes community, you are not tied to any vendor
  • Your data: in your database, exportable at any time
  • Cross-device: one view instead of five manufacturer apps

Who is it for?

Parents of children with diabetes

See your child's glucose value from afar: at school, during sports, at night. With an alarm when things get critical.

People with type 1 diabetes

All values, trends and treatments in one place: no matter which sensor or which pump.

Family & partners

Follow along as a follower: with read-only access, without being able to change anything.

AID / Looper users

AndroidAPS, Loop and Trio write to Nightscout and read from it: the data hub for your closed-loop system.

What does ns.10be.de make of it?

Nightscout is great. But running it yourself means: setting up a server, typing dozens of settings by hand, keeping it up to date, securing backups, troubleshooting errors yourself. ns.10be.de takes all of that off your hands:

  • Ready-made Nightscout server in under 3 seconds: no technical knowledge needed
  • Everything configurable by click: plugins, units, thresholds, tokens via checkbox instead of typing config files
  • High automation with self-healing: if a server hangs, it is automatically restarted
  • Thousands of alarm rules in the background: if something does go wrong, the system sounds the alarm
  • Automatic updates and backups (every 4–6 hours)
  • Servers in Germany, GDPR-compliant
  • Classic Nightscout and new Nocturne view: both included
  • Fast, personal support: no ticket maze
Nocturne interface on ns.10be.de: live glucose, time-in-range and blood-glucose curve

Your own Nightscout: without the technical effort.

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