NOTE, THIS DOESN’T WORK FOR ME :( I was not able to get this to work. Something about compiling the required apps mentioned in the instructions below. Adding the patches worked fine. I compiled source verified install worked on phone. Then I compiled source with patches added, and verified it worked on the phone. As soon as I compiled in the SolidHal apps (PRODUCT_PACKAGES += GmsCore GsfProxy FakeStore FDroid FDroidPrivilegedExtension auroraservices) per the instructions below....

Sadly, Ubiquiti offers no way to backup the videos stored on their NVR and Cloudkey appliances. This sucks if you have a fire, or breakin, and the device is stolen or otherwise compromised. Checking various reddit and ubiquiti community posts, it doesn’t look like a proper solution is coming either (been asked for for years!) So, I decided to try and fix this issue myself. Note this takes a LONG TIME to backup if you have continuous recording, or, lots of alerts, so it might not work for you – for example on Starlink, it takes approximately 4 hours for me to backup a single day of alerts from only 6 cameras....

I was having trouble with my hard drive filling up while pulling images from GOES-16 and GOES-17 satellites. 32gb filles up really quick on my odroid! So I wrote a ghetto little script that removes files older than 2 days, every day, except for the full color/ full disk images which are the ones I want to keep. I also leave the national weather service images since they take up very little space....

With all the privacy issues these days I decided to check out alternatives to using standard services. With that I found Matrix which allows for a secure ‘slack like’ service that also has ‘bridges’ that let you connect to iMessage, Slack, Signal, Facebook even Twitter and Instagram. I have not fully configured this, this is mainly for my records purposes and I stole most of this from the excellent article I found called Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi....

Today I received my SDRPlay RSPDx device and decided to get it running on my remote radio server. I’m still not sure if I’ll run this remote or locally, but, wanted to have the option for whatever I do decide to do. The setup is pretty painless and involves a few commands. I’m going to assume you already have your Armbian server setup and can SSH to it and have a special user called ‘radio’ setup to run all of this as....