LubeLogger: Self-Hosted, Open-Source, Unconventionally-Named Vehicle Maintenance Records and Fuel Mileage Tracker

[plutoniumacid@lemmy.world]

Is it lovingly aimed at grease monkeys or also at normie vehicle owners?

I took a look at the demo site and felt a bit overwhelmed.

[strawberrypigtails@lemmy.sdf.org]

Please! That would be very helpful. I tried but got tired of banging my head against a wall. I'd like to see how you approached it.

[walden@sub.wetshaving.social]

Since there's no native ntfy notification built in to LubeLogger I figured out a way to do it using Node-RED. If you don't have Node-RED set up, It's pretty great for automating things. I mostly use it for Home Assistant. There's certainly a way to accomplish this without Node-RED, but I would have no clue where to start.

The basic idea of the flow attached below is:

1. Schedule when you want notifications (I like being reminded on monday, wednesday, and friday at 8am)
2. Have Node-RED pull the maintenance reminders, which are available in JSON format
3. Do some filtering and splitting of the data, narrowing the reminders down to Past Due, Very Urgent, and Urgent (ignoring everything that doesn't need attention).
4. Feed the filtered data into templates -- different templates for each level of urgency. This adds some complexity, but I like it.
5. Bring everything back together, format it into something that ntfy.sh likes, and then fire the notification.

You'll of course have to go through and change settings in each node to match your LubeLogger URL and vehicle ID's, and preferred ntfy server and topic. You can also add your username/password for LubeLogger and ntfy (or a bearer token, if that's what you have set up with ntfy).

https://hastebin.com/share/camumegane.swift

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

I poked around and it's a bit more involved than that.

[nick_99@sh.itjust.works]

You can use their public server if you want, otherwise you can spin up your own on a cheap/free VPS.

[walden@sub.wetshaving.social]

I responded to someone below. Hope it helps.

[walden@sub.wetshaving.social]

I think if you're nerdy enough to self host stuff, you can definitely figure out LubeLogger. You don't have to use all aspects of it... you can just use it for tracking gas mileage if you want.

If you want it to keep track of maintenance like oil changes and stuff, you have to add them manually and tell it how often you want them done.

For tracking gas mileage and maintenance reminders, all you need are 3 tabs - Service Records, Fuel, and Reminders. You can ignore everything else.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

Ntfy's public server costs money. Something that's need-to-know when suggesting an app to someone who's curious about its functionality.

I already have a small cluster that I run shit on, so that's they way I would take.

[walden@sub.wetshaving.social]

Ah, I responded above thinking you already had ntfy set up. Ntfy is so cool, I definitely recommend taking a look at it. I use it for notifications from Home Assistant, Uptime Kuma, Proxmox, etc. There are other similar things out there like Gotify, but I seem to prefer ntfy.

[petewheeler@lemmy.world]

Does anyone know about any other self-hosted/open source projects that are like this? As in, "everyone" could find these useful?

Other ones I know about are Mealie (cookbook) and Warracker (Warranty Tracker).

[mangopenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

That's just one option, there's also a normal docker image.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

I use a few of those already, I'll have to check it out later.

[tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de]

Does this do/can it be used for keeping track of bicycle maintenance? Mostly which components are used (tires, brake pads,...) and when maintenance was done and so on?

[ptz@dubvee.org]

I don't see why not. I haven't stood it up yet, but I've played with the demo. It does have a section for parts/repairs/upgrades.

Give the demo a try, and let us know.

[ptz@dubvee.org]

I use Fireflyiii for my money and budgeting.

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

how do you use it with proxmox, and for what kind of notifications?

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

they have paid features, but it is very useful even with just the free features and limits

[thejml@lemm.ee]

There’s a normal docker image, If this is all you want. However in all honesty, kubernetes is so nice to work with compared to running multiple docker compose things on the same host or the nightmare of a multi-host docker only lab. Just depends on how much homelab/selfhosting you’re doing. I know I’m grateful they included a helm chart here and I wish more self hosted software projects did as well. Options are always nice to have.

[coldmoon@sh.itjust.works]

Is there EV support?

[ptz@dubvee.org]

Looks like it, yeah: