Technology Setup for a Trip

Software and Hardware setup before trips or vacations.

Software Setup

For content creation, you can have a look to ubuntu studio with tools like gimp or digikam

Communication

You can setup a Matrix Server and then install Element as Chat app

VPNs

Wireguard

You can call Wireguard the VPN client for PROS and not for “Pacos”.

Wireguard (wg-easy) Server

VPS and Wiregaurd VPN

Tailscale

curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
# sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https &&
# curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/raspbian/buster.gpg | sudo apt-key add - &&
# curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/raspbian/buster.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list &&
# sudo apt-get update &&
# sudo apt-get install tailscale &&
sudo tailscale up
tailscale ip -4 #get the ip 

#sudo tailscale logout
#sudo tailscale down

echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf &&
echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf &&
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf &&
sudo tailscale down

sudo tailscale up --advertise-exit-node

Trip Planner

Trip Planner Post

Weather Trends with Python

Go Pro Telemetry EDA

EDA Metadata Extraction at PyRouteTracker

Maps

You can install Organic Maps as Android app, but also in Linux:

flatpak install flathub app.organicmaps.desktop #https://flathub.org/apps/app.organicmaps.desktop

To record your routes as GPX

1. https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks

OpenTracks is a sport tracking application that completely respects your privacy.

2. https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup

A open source run tracker

3. https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack

FitoTrack - A privacy oriented fitness tracker for Android

And they can be combined with FitTrackee

• https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee

AGPL 3.0 | Self-hosted outdoor activity tracker 🚴

4. https://github.com/IoTechCrafts/AdventureLog

Self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner.

BackUps

Nextcloud

If you will be recording at 4K, you will need back up space.

Here it comes Nextcloud as a backup solution, as it has clients for desktop/web/android/ios.

I also like Syncthing but it does not have ios app

Get one of these connected to your SBCs at home and you are ready:

Crucial SSD

Ready to Plug to MiniPC or SBc

version: '2'

# volumes:
#   nextcloud:
#   db:

services:
  nextclouddb:
    image: linuxserver/mariadb:10.11.8
    restart: always
    container_name: nextclouddb
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/nextcloud/db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_INITDB_SKIP_TZINFO=1
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=rootpass
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=ncpass
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
#    networks: ["nginx_nginx_network"] #optional 

  nextcloudapp:
    image: nextcloud:30.0.0 #latest
    container_name: nextcloud
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8035:80
    links:
      - nextclouddb
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/nextcloud/html:/var/www/html
    environment:
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=ncpass
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_HOST=db
      - NEXTCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS= http://orangepi5.blablabla.ts.net:8035 #http://0.0.0.0:8050 #https://nextcloud.yourduckdnsubdomain.duckdns.org/
#    networks: ["nginx_nginx_network"] #optional 
 
# networks: #optional
#   nginx_nginx_network: #optional
#     external: true #optional

Other Image Center Backups

1. Lychee
2. Piwigo
3. Photoview
4. Ente, PhotoPrism, Immich…

…you can see them covered at this post

Hardware Setup

Remember that a VPS Setup or some SBCs at home would be good companions.

To bring with you, a compact laptop can also be interesting.

This one is ~1.2kg, a tablet can be ~500g

You can also take a 4G LTE Wingle, like the OLAX:

Action Cam

About DJi Oa5 Pro

Learning more about this action camera

Video Workflow

With the Asrock x300

Some people bring their drons.

But my DJI Tello dron is more a 101 tool to get started with dron flying while doing some Python test on it.

I saw some people mounting action cameras on their drons with some adjustments.

SmartPhone

I am very happy with the Android Pixel 8 Pro

Maybe some backup?

Router

TPLink MR200

4G Home Router Review

Travel Router Setup

GL-MT3000 review and VPN Setup

You can also get one of these portable 4G usb router (and bring a sim adapter):

Ive been experimenting with the travel router around and…

If you need to login to a hotel network, where credentials (user/pass) are required, this will prompt:

Cost of Living

Sometime ago I got to know this site: https://www.numbeo.com

A pure reflection of the knowledge of crowds, applied for cost of living.

• https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Warsaw
• https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Amsterdam

At the time of writing, these are separeted by x1.4 without rent

If you are planning a trip and want to make a guess on the costs, its worth to have a look!

FAQ

Sharing Expenses with Spliit

If you are not aware of Spliit for sharing expenses with others:

• https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit

MIT | Spliit is a free and open-source alternative to Splitwise, aimed at simplifying expense sharing among friends and family.

Spliit offers a robust solution for managing shared expenses and simplifies the process for users.

Its an fantastic project to have a look to.

In my opinion its just missing the possibility to add different currencies.

The good thing?

You can get a .json report to analyze later what has been going during the trip.

What about containers?

Containers are great for SelfHosting.

And you can see how simple is to get up and running with docker and Portainer:

No wonder why Container is one of my favourite technologies to use for app reliability!

More Cool Software

Thanks to this sites, I get to know more cool apps:

1. https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

• https://github.com/piotrkulpinski/openalternative

Which can be seen also as an awsome Astro project!

2. https://alternateoss.com/
3. https://youmightnotneed.co/