I love LubeLogger. I've totally switched both my and my wifes cars to it for tracking gas mileage and maintenance.
If anyone would like, I can share how I got ntfy notifications working with it for maintenance reminders.
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My only beef with LubeLogger (and it's a pretty minor one, given it's just the one dev) is the lack of a mobile app. I've used aCar since 2012. I have years of data logged, and IMO, having periodic reminders and widgets available at a single tap is a bit more favorable than a PWA.
I am very curious about ntfy though. Please do share.
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:
- Schedule when you want notifications (I like being reminded on monday, wednesday, and friday at 8am)
- Have Node-RED pull the maintenance reminders, which are available in JSON format
- 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).
- Feed the filtered data into templates -- different templates for each level of urgency. This adds some complexity, but I like it.
- 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).
If you're not familiar with Node-RED, you'd import the above JSON and edit it from there. Stuff "flows" through nodes, stopping and doing what you tell it along the way.
You install the ntfy app on your phone and subscribe to channels which then can/will alert.
I poked around and it's a bit more involved than that.
You can use their public server if you want, otherwise you can spin up your own on a cheap/free VPS.
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.
they have paid features, but it is very useful even with just the free features and limits
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.
how do you use it with proxmox, and for what kind of notifications?
From the GUI go to Datacenter - Notifications. Add a Notification Target of the Webhook type. Mine looks like this:
See the ntfy documentation for different types of authorization, tags (emojis), etc.
Then edit the default Notification Matcher and enable your new target.
By default I get notifications of successful/failed backup jobs. I want to set something up for drive health using SMART, but I'm just sitting down to figure that out now.
oh nice! I see this is a relatively new feature. thanks!
I use a few of those already (HA, Proxmox, etc), I'll have to check it out later.
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.
I responded to someone below. Hope it helps.
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.
It's for people that like tracking things in detail, greasemonkey or no. I use it mostly for the gas mileage feature but also set up a couple of service reminders and added my service receipts. All easy to do but if you miss a fuel up it's kind of annoying to track it right.
Thank you. It makes sense that the demo shows ALL the features and I wouldn't need to use all. It's probably better for my OCD to skip this tool :)
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.
I know that I'll be downvoted to hell , but I would love to integrate it with OCR and an LLM , such that uploading the garage treatment summary would auto-create the necessary records.
This one always makes me giggle and think of this.
I accidentally spilled it in my garage :(
The good news is: now I can fit 5 cars in my 2 car garage.
LOL! It's a real product tho. I'm struggling to get through 32 oz. I guess I don't have the use case of someone like Diddy.
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).
There is Homebox for keeping a list of things you have (and what they are worth) for things like insurance claims.
There is Audiobookshelf for your audiobook collection
There is wanderer for hiking and biking trails
I use Fireflyiii for my money and budgeting.
I tried Firefly but sadly had to give it up. Every action felt like such a slog to do and overkill for what I wanted. I love tracking in detail but it was a bit much even for me. At the end of the day I just want to track in/out + categories and put this data in a few charts. I still find my spreadsheet is better at that.
I moved over to actualbudget! It’s way more intuitive to me and the the simplefin integration my bank transactions are automatically imported
Does it import transactions from your bank? Or is that all manual?
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?
I just poked on the demo and I think it could, however it might be a bit clunky. Maybe could be a viable thing to request of the dev. Maybe alongside a donation for a sort of bounty.
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.
hey i just picked this up last week. i like it.
Yeah, building a simpler version of something like that was on my ever-growing "to do" list but came across this today. Probably going to deploy it this evening or maybe this weekend (whichever day it's supposed to rain lol).
Is there EV support?
Is there EV support?
Looks like it, yeah:
The UI still shows Fuel, but it seems like you can enter the kWh and it should calculate. Maybe plug some values into the demo to be sure. If you do, let us know!
This’ll give me something to tinker with tomorrow