Technology Setup for a Trip

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

Wireguard Server

Setup a VPS with wg-easy

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

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:

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 ~1.2

Action Cam

About DJi Oa5 Pro

About DJi Oa5 Pro

Video Workflow

With the Asrock x300

Some people bring their drons.

But my Tello dron is more a cool tool to get started with flying and do 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

4G Router

TPLink MR200

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):

Travel Router

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

FAQ

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/