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LuCI - OpenWrt Configuration Interface

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LuCI - OpenWrt Configuration Interface

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Might be a good idea to wait. It's coming soonish I think: - https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/4994 - https://forum.turris.cz/t/wifi-6-ax-adapter/10390/77 I think the router…

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westurner·Nov 6, 2023
Would it be feasible to do something similar with OpenWRT opkg packages to support capturing weather radar (and weather forecasts and alerts?) data from digital FM radio with a USB RTL-SDR radio? Python apps require a bunch of disk space, which is at a premium on low-wattage always-on routers. OpenWRT's luci-app-statistics application supports rrdtool and collectd for archived stats over time (optionally on a USB stick or an SSD instead of the flash ROM of the router, which has a max lifetime in terms of number of writes) https://github.com/openwrt/luci/tree/master/applications/luc... From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138230 : > LuCI is the OpenWRT web UI which is written in Lua; which is now implemented mostly as a JSON-RPC API instead of with server-side HTML templates for usability and performance on embedded devices. [...] N
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otes on how to write a LuCI app in Lua:
In Nrsc5: Receive NRSC-5 digital radio stations using an RTL-SDR dongle
westurner·Nov 4, 2023
OpenWRT's LuCI WebUI, Torch ML, and embedded interpreters in game engines are also written in Lua. Apache Arrow's C GLib implementation works with Lua. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38103326 : > Apache Arrow already supports C, C++, Python, Rust, Go and has C GLib support Lua: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/main/c_glib/example/lua LearnXinYminutes Lua: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/ OpenWRT is a Make-based Linux distro for embedded devices with limited RAM and flash ROM, x86, and docker. OpenWRT is built on `uci` (and procd and ubusd instead of systemd and dbus). UCI is an /etc/config/* dotted.key=value configuration system which procd sys-v /etc/init.d/* scripts read values in from when regenerating their configuration when $1 is e.g. 'start', 'restart', or 'reload' per sys-v. LuCI is the OpenWRT web UI which
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is written in Lua; which is now implemented mostly as a JSON-RPC API instead of with server-side HTML templates for usability and performance on embedded devices. Notes on how to write a LuCI app in Lua: https://github.com/x-wrt/luci/commit/73cda4f4a0115bb05bbd3d1... applications/luci-app-example: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/tree/master/applications/luc... openwrt/luci//docs: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/tree/master/docs https://openwrt.org/supported_devices It's probably impossible to build OpenWRT (and opkg packages) for an RP2040W.
In Show HN: MicroLua – Lua for the RP2040 Microcontroller
westurner·Nov 1, 2023
What advantages over say, smallstep/certificates, letsencrypt/boulder, django-ca, square/certstrap, or hashicorp/vault (and e.g. OpenWRT's luci-app-acme ACMEv2 GUI) does Anchor offer? https://github.com/topics/acme applications/luci-app-acme/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/acme.js: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/blob/master/applications/luc... https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/tls/acmesh https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/tutorials/secrets-mana... https://github.com/hashicorp/vault : > Refer to Build Certificate Authority (CA) in Vault with an offline Root for an example of using a root CA external to Vault.
In Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS
westurner·Oct 27, 2023
From the WebSDR FAQ: > Q: My SDR can be tuned from 0 to 30 MHz (or from 25 to 1900 MHz, or whatever). Can I offer all of that tuning range to the users? > A: No. Such an SDR does not feed the entire 0-30 or 25-1900 MHz spectrum to your computer: that would be way too much data. Instead, a small part (at most a few MHz) are filtered out in external hardware, centered around some frequency that you can tune. With the WebSDR software, users can only tune around within that small part of the spectrum. You (as the operator of the site) choose the centerfrequency Rydberg antenna range: 0-20Ghz, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28402527 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_atom Bus width: W3C WebUSB enables USB device access from JS, TypeScript, WebAssembly, and anything that emscripten emcc can compile to WASM (for use with the in-browser
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WASM runtimes, or the newish docker WASM runtime CLI arg). Emscripten-forge is one way to build WASM WebAssembly from e.g. C, Python. W3C WebRTC specifies audio/video/message relaying and NAT traversal: https://webrtc.org/getting-started/media-devices OpenWRT has an rtl-sdr package but not yet a WebSDR package; and an nginx-ssl package, but there's not yet an nginx-rtmp-module package fwics: https://www.google.com/search?q=nginx-rtmp-module+openwrt OpenWRT wiki > SDR, LoRA / LoRAWAN , Mesh https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/sdr , https://www.google.com/search?q=openwrt+lora Pipewire may now arguably be the best way to handle audio and video streams with Linux. Pipewire is not yet supported on OpenWRT ? but is probably already supported by DragonOS (Lubuntu 22.10+)? Pipewire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeWire https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613125 ... Pipewire to WebRTC: pipewire-screenaudio: https://github.com/IceDBorn/pipewire-screenaudio: > Extension to passthrough pipewire audio to WebRTC Screenshare awesome-amateur-radio#sdr https://github.com/mcaserta/awesome-amateur-radio#sdr The OpenWRT wiki lists a few different weather station apps that can retrieve, record chart, and publish weather data from various weather sensors and also from GPIO or SDR; pywws, weewx weewx: https://github.com/weewx/weewx A WebSDR LuCI app would be cool. LuCI docs > Modules: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/blob/master/docs/Modules.md SETI + Unistellar => all cool things: https://www.seti.org/unistellar-and-seti-institute-partnersh... https://www.seti.org/unistellar-seti-institute-education https://www.unistellar.com/citizen-science/ : > Citizen Astronomer Network: The Unistellar Network is a worldwide community of Citizen Astronomers working in partnership with professional astronomers at the SETI Institute. Members use their Unistellar telescope to collect astronomical data, which is supplied to SETI Institute astronomers who then use it to develop predictions and models "Synthetic aperture": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar "WebUSB Support for RP2040" that has 2x20 pin (*) GPIO and MicroUSB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38007967 A radiotelescope attached to a 30 pin Model B could probably also feed WebSDR?
In WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios
ipodopt·Aug 6, 2021Recommendation phrase
Might be a good idea to wait. It's coming soonish I think: - https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/4994 - https://forum.turris.cz/t/wifi-6-ax-adapter/10390/77 I think the router might be my favorite open hardware piece: - It was easier to setup then my old Asus router - Schematics and source are easy to access. - It has never not worked. - It is made by a company that is a domain registrar with a good track record on open source projects (click the more button it the top right and you might recognize a few projects): https://www.nic.cz/ - And if you need to do something advance with it, you can. Mine is has Bird runing BGP.
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