Google Cloud Nightscout » Setting up followers
You can always use a web browser or xDrip to follow and see the readings from your Nightscout site.
Using tokens for following is the most secure method. Giving permission to the world to access your site is not.
Also, giving the world permission to access your site may allow crawlers to access it, which will increase traffic. In order to keep your Nighsctout project free, you need to minimize traffic.
Use a web browser to access your Nightscout (https://hostname) and authenticate again if needed (see Setting up Nightscout).
Click on the top right menu button and select “Admin Tools”.
Click on “Add new Subject”.
In the form that opens, enter a name. under “Roles”, copy roles from the table below it. For example, for a follower that is only supposed to see readings and nothing else, only enter “readable” without quotes as you can see in the previous image. You can enter a combination of different roles by separating them with ,.
You can add an optional comment and save. Take note of the access token.
An example token that can only read is shown below.
You can create multiple tokens with specific permissions for each to use for different followers.
In the follower xDrip, choose “Nightscout Follower” as the hardware data source.
Under “Nightscout Follow URL”, enter https://Token@hostname assuming Token is the token you generated as explained above, and hostname is your FreeDNS hostname.
If it doesn’t work, try the following in a browser on the follower phone, where Token is the token you generated as explained above. If it doesn’t work, the token may be wrong.
https://hostname/?token=Token
