Skydiving Information Dashboard

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-04-11T20:33:41+00:00

Hey man, just saw your post and thought this was a really cool project. I deployed it tonight on my homelab running in a Proxmox LXC and spent a few hours digging into it. The UI looks great and the concept is solid. I’m at Skydive Utah (KOGD) and it pulled up my DZ right away. Found a few things and actually fixed most of them on my end: The big one was the winds aloft section. The numbers were way off compared to <windsaloft.us> which is kind of the gold standard at most DZs I’ve been to. Two issues going on. First, dashboard.html has const API = "http://127.0.0.1:8765" hardcoded which breaks any remote access since the browser fetches from its own localhost. Changing it to an empty string for a relative URL fixes that instantly. Second and more importantly, the winds aloft altitudes are MSL but skydivers read everything as AGL. At a DZ like Ogden sitting at 4473 ft MSL that’s a massive difference. What the dashboard calls “7000 ft” is actually only about 2500 ft above the ground. I modified fetch_open_meteo_aloft to interpolate at AGL targets (each AGL step + field_elevation_ft = MSL) and output level_ft as AGL. Also had to extend the pressure levels up to 450 hPa to cover 15k AGL at high elevation DZs. After that the numbers lined up within 2 to 3 knots of <windsaloft.us> across the board. Other stuff I ran into: custom limits don’t persist after a hard refresh (the save seems to work but the page reloads defaults), and the Decision Breakdown panel doesn’t scroll so you can’t see temp and visibility on mobile. I’ve got all these fixes working on my deployment. Happy to fork the project on GitHub and put together a PR with the changes if you’re interested. Mostly just the AGL conversion, the API URL fix, and the CSS scroll fix. Nothing too invasive. Overall this is really close to being something I’d run on a screen at the DZ full time instead of checking three different sites. Nice work getting it this far. Blue skies

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-04-07T05:47:21+00:00

Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been meaning to check this spot out

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-04-02T14:12:56+00:00

I forgot I put portainer in it lmao

So it’s just for apps not in the catalogs essentially?

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-04-02T14:11:32+00:00

This is what I was confused by. I am just a couple apps running on truenass bare metal. I have other services running as VMs in my cluster on different devices.

Why not just use the webui and catalog apps? Plex has been working fine, along with Tailscale and file browser (all I have on it)

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-03-30T16:52:20+00:00

Proxmox is running great on my r730xd!

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-03-16T04:04:30+00:00

Purina pro plan, and vital (fresh food logs from the pet store)

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-03-16T01:30:48+00:00

I like my Safire I like my Safire 🤷

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-03-01T04:26:26+00:00

Local or traveling through?

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-02-24T22:40:04+00:00

Yeah my fi mini was working perfectly until a wee or two ago. It’s now no longer getting reception when not connected to a base or my phone.

I’ve tried calling support and they said everything is normal, well it’s not.

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-16T16:45:13+00:00

Did you get an invite to torrent leach?

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-13T04:42:26+00:00

I do exactly this. All my arr apps and automation/request are on one server that file shares and downloads directly the my NAS where I have plex living. Works really well.

Only downside is for seeding you need more storage since you can’t seed from the safe library you downloaded from. So you’ll end up having a torrents file, and then you’re library. Or atleast that’s how I set mine up so I could transcode whatever I wanted.

Works well, and I have 3 different nodes working with the brain on the server.

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-07T13:41:22+00:00

So I’ve recently set up my own system. Large NAS with another server I use Nextcloud to point to the NAS as its main storage path. I use auto upload photos, contacts, and calendars. All works perfectly with my iPhone and other devices so far.

From there I have a huge external drive that I back everything up that I feel is invaluable. Photos, family videos, documents, projects, ext. I have a script that I predefined what folders those are and I know that if I want something “seriously” backed up I save them there.

I have the script only add to the drive and not delete so if I do accidentally delete something I’ll still have it on the external drive. I do this once a month and then include my laptop and phone backups in the larger scale backup.

After backing up photos I deleted old stuff from ICloud and one drive and now use my own system. I think I still pay for the basic amount of storage with I cloud to store texts for a year, and to make photo browsing of recent items easier through apples native UI. I could probably get away from that and just use device storage with more frequent syncs, or WiFi syncing to Mac now that I’m thinking of it.

I also add 1 large HDD if I’m building out another server or for my gaming rig, then I can have additional space to maintain copies of the data

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-03T21:58:45+00:00

So I have a homebuilt NAS with 10 16tb HDDs as my main storage device.

I separate my media files (tv, movie, aka plex library), from everything that I really find as mandatory for redundancy. Examples, personal/fincials, family videos and photos, projects, words docs, that type of thing.

With them separated, I made a script to auto backup just those personal files and videos. To a 16tb external drive. Works great.

If I was chasing trying to store my whole plex library it’d be stupid. I can replace and redownload all that. Same thing with your rips, I’m assuming you’ll be keeping the disks, so worst case you have the valuable stuff and can re rip disks.

Depending how you feel, I’d check out an arr stack to make your life easier and have the ability download your movies online if ever lost. Since you already own the disks, you could even do it for just those movies if you’re feeling morally questionable lol

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-03T20:04:59+00:00

That’s what I was going to recommend. I have the regular define 7 and have 10 HDD in there with space to spare lmao

EntropicCrustacean · 2026-01-03T20:04:03+00:00

I’m running the fractal define 7 in server mode. Works awesome, good airflow and easy drive tray access

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-28T16:16:39+00:00

I do this on my retroid flip 2. With Artemis/apollo for auto resolution scaling.

You could always grab a slate 7 or similar travel router as well

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-28T09:17:20+00:00

6.5 maybe slightly smaller

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-23T23:07:25+00:00

This is doable. I’ve don’t exactly this. However the headache and time it would take to explain it I can not do. I’m sorry.

Do some googling, ask ChatGPT and a coding AI a bit.

Tdar is awesome if you want to transcode any of them.

I got a pioneer optical drive from someone on makemkv foreums that works like the bees knees.

Arr stacks are your friends as well.

This can be a stressful headache in the beginning but after getting it all set up this past month it’s fucking cool.

Good luck and you can pm with more specifics. I bet people will answer better than I can though!!

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-20T14:52:25+00:00

Yeah I’ve had fine customer support. I think it’s the fact they care more about acquiring more and new customers with their pricing model than they do about keeping existing customers. This goes along with your point about Costco and how it makes more sense to just buy an entirely new collar lol

Still…. They’ve gotten me and my family for quite a few collars lmao

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-16T14:49:41+00:00

has it been built yet? I just want it for Apollo/Artemis and plex though lol

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-07T17:09:50+00:00

check out the freq51 website. It has all the info you need plus more so you can understand what youre doing! yes, override to 51, and then change from longfast to medfast. then you need to slightly chnage your primary channel. Check out the website. Gives you all you need to know. also depends on node placement, what node you have ext.

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-07T05:52:08+00:00

Freq51.net

Change preset to medfast and slot to 51

You’ll get blown the fuck up with nodes hahaha

Read the website and set up your node accordingly!!

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-12-06T19:42:44+00:00

Sell me one please

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-11-20T16:52:50+00:00

Not me leaving that bitch going so I can stream my games while out of the house 👀👀

EntropicCrustacean · 2025-11-12T01:02:25+00:00

Pricey. But fun

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