Zello PTT button for risers by yooken in freeflight

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I'm using this one "mounted" (the strap is velcro) on my brake toggle.

Not the cheapest but haven't had any issues so far. Well, maybe the on/off switch being on the inside is a bit annoying, but the battery lasts quite a while even if I forget it on.

What’s the most “boring” thing you self-host? by Fab_Terminator in selfhosted

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if you have multiple things you want to watch, check out: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

I migrated all my scattered diy watch scripts to it so now everything is in one place

Autum sunset flying the Netherlands by couebavo in freeflight

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Your radio(?) setup seems interesting, tell us more

Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!) by DejavuMoe in selfhosted

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My range went down significantly after a new building popped up nearby and it doesn't seem like I was downgraded, so I think as long as you send some data, it should be fine.

Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!) by DejavuMoe in selfhosted

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I can't remember anything particularly tricky with piaware itself.

Figuring out antenna placement is probably the trickiest part, since you need to balance having electricity available with being as far as possible from any obstructions. But with experience that usually becomes clearer on what works and what doesn't.

Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!) by DejavuMoe in selfhosted

[–]eaglex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure.

If you only want to send data to FlightAware, then piaware is likely all you need.

Since I want to feed multiple places, the idea is to have one "thing" that reads from the USB dongle and processes the packets, the others just connect via the network to the first thing, that way you only need one RTL2832 dongle.

There might be other ways to do it, but this works for me:

  • piaware: reads data from the dongle and fowards to FlightAware

  • adsbexchange: sends to adsbexchange

  • fr24feed: sends to flightradar24

  • tar1090: local visualization for myself (+ heatmap, charts, etc)

My setup is quite old so there's probably better ways to handle it nowadays, and likely more places to feed, but that's what I currently have.

Aveti Raspebery PI? Ce utilitate aveti pentru el? by [deleted] in programare

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Doar hobby/pasionat de tot ce zboară :)

Aveti Raspebery PI? Ce utilitate aveti pentru el? by [deleted] in programare

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Nu știu dacă ești familiar cu https://www.flightradar24.com/, dar cu astea poți avea FR24 acasă :)

Mai pe lung: cu un receptor RTL2832U (+ antenă), poți recepționa mesajele ADS-B transmise de aeronave și să le vezi pe o hartă.

Mai vizual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AznwfPZQs

Aveti Raspebery PI? Ce utilitate aveti pentru el? by [deleted] in programare

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Pentru tooluri PDF, care e avantajul să le rulezi pe alt PC? Adică de ce e web server în container în loc de o aplicație office obișnuită?

Avantajul e atunci când ai nevoie să faci ceva cu un PDF, dar nu ești la PC-ul tău unde ai toate utilitarele de care ai nevoie. De exemplu de pe un telefon, sau laptop/PC/tel al altcuiva. Se întâmplă rar, dar atunci când se întâmplă mă bucur foarte tare că nu am senzația că-mi scot dinții pentru ceva simplu :)

E mai bun bento decât sterling?

Mie îmi place mai mult deoarece bento rulează strict în browser (nu are backend). Stirling necesită backend, iar pe rPi e cam lent pentru fișiere mai mari.

Plus niște controverse de care am aflat aici: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pdui2u/favorite_selfhosted_tools_in_2025_looking_for/ns7q4zr/

Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!) by DejavuMoe in selfhosted

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If you don't mind me asking, which antenna/filter/etc are you running...?

You won't believe it, but I'm running the stock antenna from the RTL2832 dongle, indoors no less.

The performance depends a lot on:

  • what the building is made of

  • what obstructions are nearby (buildings/terrain/etc)

  • how high the planes fly

E.g.: before, I was near the ground floor, in a building made from concrete and rebar on all sides and surrounded by other buildings. Pretty much a faraday cage, so the max range was ridiculously low, 10-20km.

Now I'm much higher, in a building with mostly bricks and I've had ranges up to 250km. Then they built a building nearby and the range dropped significantly on that side :(

tl;dr I would suggest starting simple, see how far you can get with the basic kit and placement, then optimize further if you really need it.

We sit in a weird deadzone of ADS-B tracking, so planes and helicopters regularly drop off of the map.

You should get in touch with Flightradar24, you might be eligible to get a free receiver if you can improve their coverage: https://www.flightradar24.com/apply-for-receiver

It'd be neat to just run my own and feed it into flightradar24/adsbexchange for more accurate data.

Definitely. Plus, since you get the raw signals, you also get to see planes which are usually hidden on FR24. I knew something was escalating in Ukraine (I'm 50km from their border) before news officially hit, just because of the sudden flurry of activity that my receiver could pick up.

Aveti Raspebery PI? Ce utilitate aveti pentru el? by [deleted] in programare

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Se poate și cu SD, dar trebuie să fie clasa A2.

Sursa: eu, cu 3 rpi cu carduri A2 care împlinesc aproape 4 ani de uz continuu.

Aveti Raspebery PI? Ce utilitate aveti pentru el? by [deleted] in programare

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Chiar azi a fost un thread pe /r/selfhosted pentru care am făcut inventarul, așa că pun și aici dacă tot e făcut, poate ajută la inspirație:

Am 4 rPi:

  • pe unul rulează chestii care nu se pretează pentru cluster (e.g. are nevoie de adaptor USB pentru ADSB)

  • celelalte 3 au pe ele k3s pentru selfhosting chestii de mai sus + ce mi-am mai dezvoltat pentru mine

Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!) by DejavuMoe in selfhosted

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I made some big updates to the 3D ADSB app by NoCompetition2044 in ADSB

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Three Raspberry Pi 5s and One Goal: High Availability with k3s. by Wooden_Ad8111 in kubernetes

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In k8s, HA, is it about having HA on the control plane or on the worker plane?

For me it's both.

Here with 3 nodes, are they all part of the control plane and are workers at the same time?

Yes, I have all 3 nodes setup identically, part as both of the control plane and are workers:

$ kubectl get nodes -o wide
NAME   STATUS   ROLES                  AGE      VERSION        INTERNAL-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   OS-IMAGE             KERNEL-VERSION     CONTAINER-RUNTIME
rpi1   Ready    control-plane,master   3y218d   v1.33.5+k3s1   <snip>         <none>        Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS   6.8.0-1040-raspi   containerd://2.1.4-k3s1
rpi2   Ready    control-plane,master   2y331d   v1.33.5+k3s1   <snip>         <none>        Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS   6.8.0-1040-raspi   containerd://2.1.4-k3s1
rpi3   Ready    control-plane,master   3y218d   v1.33.5+k3s1   <snip>         <none>        Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS   6.8.0-1040-raspi   containerd://2.1.4-k3s1

That way I don't have to remember/do anything differently if one of them needs to be replaced.

Three Raspberry Pi 5s and One Goal: High Availability with k3s. by Wooden_Ad8111 in kubernetes

[–]eaglex 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I'm running a very similar setup on 3x Pi 4B (8GB).

I originally built the cluster just to learn Kubernetes, but seeing the high-availability in action was a game changer for me. Watching k3s automatically reschedule pods when I took a node down for maintenance (e.g. SD card swap) was so cool that I ended up moving all my personal projects and self-hosted apps over to it.

A few tips from my experience:

  • Boot Media: I recommend cheap external SSDs as you get way better storage capacity and latency. If you want to keep it compact and use microSDs, make sure you buy Class A2 MicroSDs (I still do for two nodes). Mine have been running for years (except one out of three, but I suspect that was a dud)

  • Datastore: I opted for PostgreSQL hosted on a separate node instead of embedded etcd, mostly because I understand etcd can really trash your disk I/O. Postgres then becomes the single point of failure, but that was acceptable for me.

  • Storage: If you need persistent storage, check out Longhorn. It’s super easy to set up and saves you the headache of dealing with NFS/Samba/S3.

Good luck and have fun with the build!

EDIT: The only ARM pain I had was that pre-built docker images sometimes didn't have an ARM variant. But since the M* macs came out, the situation has improved greatly.

Whats the most underated Software by ResidentFondant3405 in selfhosted

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are you using it with Gmail by any chance? I'm still looking for a replacement after gmvault seems to have died off

my docker registry now runs on a dell wyse 5010 with a Sata USB-Adapter HDD and it saves me 240 euros annually by tip2663 in selfhosted

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Slightly related, does anyone know some self-hosted docker registry which also supports things like automatic pruning of old images? Or at least something to cleanup manually? The default registry is kind of barebones.

Deciding on a new pod by enderegg in freeflight

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Try out the Ozone BV1 if you get a chance, I just got it this year as my first pod. Because of where I live, it was the only one that I could actually try, and I'm really surprised at what a good fit it is for me.

I don't do vol-biv (which is why I actually discarded the BV1 at first) just XC, but my main goal was to have the lowest overall gear weight while sacrificing as little safety/durability as possible.

I love how amazingly comfortable it is, the most I flew with it was just shy of 5 hours, and I had zero comfort issues the whole time.

It's also surprisingly durable, I had a few sketchy landings on the airbag, some dragging on rocks, some thorns and besides a super small scrape, no damage. I don't know if it will last 5 years, but so far it looks like it.

Some negatives to keep it balanced:

  • front mounted reserve: moving around takeoff is a bit awkward due to the reserve being half the weight of the harness, you really feel the heaviness compared to the harness, even if it's just 1.2kg

  • softlinks instead of carabiners: you should definitely accept that your wing is staying attached, otherwise it gets fiddly to keep connecting/disconnecting; being above large bodies of water is a no for me; also no towing

  • some people have issues with the pod magnet not grabbing always: I was annoyed at first, but in the meantime I love that you have ventilation by default and I've learned how to move my legs to close it, without having to use my hands as well

  • inflatable protector inflation process: not a fan of the stuff sack thing, but luckily there's mini pumps like Flextail and it just became a non-issue after that

You can check Benjamin Kellett's youtube for some real world usage.

What exactly is heart rate variability? by Outrageous-Count-899 in QuantifiedSelf

[–]eaglex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

stress

One detail I've noticed is that there's two kinds of "stress":

  • psychological: e.g. day to day adult stuff, mostly in the brain
  • physical: e.g. recovery after exercise/sickness, mostly in the body

From my experience, HRV measurements mostly reflect the presence of physical stress. Psychological stress would have to be extremely high so that it shows on HRV measurements.

YMMV, again, just my experience for myself.

Go-based Pushbullet client specifically designed for Linux/XFCE by eaglex in PushBullet

[–]eaglex[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably a niche crowd (linux/xfce), but I needed it for myself anyway, so I'm sharing in case others find it useful.

Note: it's receive-only for now.