Hey guys,

its me again with medication assistant :D For anyone who never heard of MedAssist, it is selfhosted web application that tracks medication usage. It’s main feature is to send e-mail remainder when it’s time to reorder medication. I have received a great feedback and you all guys made me even more excited to spend time on this project. Honestly, I can’t believe how many people even visited github page, thank you a lot! Some of you broke demo page which helped me find weak spots, so thx about that as well <3. I received some feature requests and bug issues via reddit, lemmy and github. I spent some time working on them and now I want to announce an update (still develop branch):

  • Possible to have Usage = 0
  • Filtered invalid characters on inputs
  • Reduced CPU/Memory usage by improving backend (hopefully no more crashes)
  • Rebuilt Upcoming Schedules (more simple and lightweight)
  • Added more styling to e-mail notifications

Demo is up and running again, feel free to try it or brake it. Fingers crossed there are not many bugs left. If it turns out it’s stable enough, I’ll merge develop to main branch and create latest release. Planning to add few more features in the next release. BREAKING CHANGE: Make sure you backup your database file (medication.db) and modify docker-compose Database path was changed (to achieve uniform path no matter what installation method was chosen), so make sure to update docker-compose with: volumes: - /path/to/database/directory:/app/medassist

Change to: volumes: - /path/to/database/directory:/app/database

Also change version tag to develop or v0.15.0.develop if you are using docker. Link directly to develop branch with new update: https://github.com/njic/medassist/tree/develop All suggestions are welcome and feel free to star the project on github <3 R—

  • RxBrad
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    8 hours ago

    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 - https://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.

    EDIT: Look up Pyxis or Omnicell Dispensers for examples of unlatching compartments. We use these pretty extensively in hospitals.

    EDIT 2: Here’s a good example (starting around 2:00) showing how the individual compartments unlatch: https://youtu.be/bPJSbexZNC4?t=120

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      2 days ago

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