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Written by rambos@lemm.ee on 2024-12-01 at 16:48

MedAssist Update

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Written by RxBrad@infosec.pub on 2024-12-01 at 18:10

Pharmacist here, struggling to find a way to keep my dad on schedule with his Parkinson’s neds.

Adding an option for webhooks at scheduled dispense times would open up some cool opportunities for nerds like us to create automated dispensing units.

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Written by rambos@lemm.ee on 2024-12-01 at 19:08

I was thinking about building device as well. I wouldn’t mind adding webhooks, or maybe even home assistant integration. I would need to know more about device itself to find the way to do it tho.

Do you have in mind ideal device and workflow? I’m interested also in 3D modeling and 3D printing, but I’m not sure what kind of device is best for that use case yet.

I don’t know anything better than using phone alarm as reminder, but feels like dedicated device could fill that role perfectly. Phone alarm doesn’t require internet connection, its quite stable and you always have it with you, its hard to beat that lol.

Btw, before device comes to life, this app might help already! At least you can check if your dad took meds, by counting how many left and comparing that with number in MedAssist.

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Written by RxBrad@infosec.pub on 2024-12-01 at 19:37

I’m just thinking something as simple as the app triggering an event that unlatches a compartment that corresponds to that specific time. “It’s 12:00. Open the compartment with all the 12:00 meds.” You’d probably have to include multi-day support, too (I fill dad’s meds a month at a time in this - a.co/d/cRw0e93 )

That same event could do things like trigger a visual or audio alarm, too.

My goal would be to make it as hands-off as possible for him. He already finds ways to “cheat” the daily dispensers he has now.

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Written by rambos@lemm.ee on 2024-12-02 at 23:15

Thanks, such a great info. I have 0 experience with these, Ill check them out. Hopefuly Ill figure how to design a perfect one 😉

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Written by tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 2024-12-01 at 21:52

I’d absolutely love this to have a home assistant hook, or even be able to run it as an add-on. Being able to issue triggers, notably Android notifications, would be perfect for my home.

Additionally, being able to track “taken” as well as record the time/date the dose was marked as such would be great!

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Written by rambos@lemm.ee on 2024-12-02 at 23:52

If you need something right now, check my other github project - its home assistant version of MedAssist. Its not well documented, but you can find automations that trigger on schedule, dashboard page with preview and config page to update quantity, sending email reorder reminder, sending android critical notifictions or setting android alarms every morning for that day. I abandonded that basically as soon as MedAssist came to life, but It was working great for quite a long time.

Anyway, Im quite confident this project will be able to talk to homeassistant at some point.

About tracking “taken”, I need to figure how to track reliably enough to make it worth, but Ill deffo keep looking

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