webhorus and webwenet
A quick little update of something we've added for amateur sondehub users - web based decoders for horus and wenet.
webhorus can demodulate horus binary 4fsk and upload ...
2025-03-29 23:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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Graw sponsorship 2025, SondeHub Tracker updates and KA9Q support in radiosonde_auto_rx
Hi all!
Apologies for the long time between updates here - we really appreciate your continuing support!
Once again we are very happy to announce that GRAW Radiosondes ar...
2025-01-05 00:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostDFM-17/DFM-09 mis-identification
Hi all,
We are starting to see misidentifications of DFM-17 sondes as DFM-09 sondes becoming more prevalent over the US.
We're working through a few options for how to better handle mis-identification of DFM17 sondes (based on serial n...
2024-05-18 06:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostMarch Updates
Discord
After having development discussions spread across multiple Discord servers for many years, we’ve decided to finally setup our own Discord server in an attempt to centralise things. We have channels for software de...
2024-03-12 23:45:31 +0000 UTC View PostGRAW Radiosondes continues SondeHub sponsorship for 2024
I am very happy to announce that GRAW Radiosondes are continuing their support of SondeHub for 2024. We are very appreciative of their support in 2023 w...
2023-12-31 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPredictions - so many predictions
We recently made some changes to how our radiosonde predictions (for SondeHub not SondeHub Amateur) are delivered to clients.
Previously the web client would request predictions for every single radiosonde. On the backend predictions are run...
2023-10-08 04:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostNew experimental APRS gateway features
APRS receiver positions
Our APRS importer should now import the positions of stations that receive balloon telemetry.
Frustum Culling [testing help wanted]
In computer game development there is a fairly common optimisation called frustum culling.
In the example above, the players camera is on the right...
2023-08-14 06:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhy and how we block old software versions
Summary
If you are using rdz_ttgo_sonde software - upgrade to 20230427 / 0.9.3 or beyond ASAP. Failure to do so may prevent uploads to SondeHub.
Why and how we block old software... 2023-07-12 06:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
New MQTT feeds for optimising the web interface
Back when SondeHub first got off the ground there were only a few tracking stations. We published all data to the web clients as it came in. Today there are 1300+ receiving stations feeding data and many older computers and mobile phones struggle ...
2023-06-14 00:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostARDC, Amateur tracker time periods, Amateur APRS-IS Gateway updates
Thanks for Mark (VK5QI) for writing todays patreon post!
ARDC Grant
Back in November 2022 we submitted a grant request to Amateur Radio Digital Communications, for funding for approximately 2 years of hosting costs. We are very happy...
2023-04-16 09:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's been happening over Jan and Feb
Going to try to be brief (future me here - turns out this update was less brief than I thought it would be - we've been doing a lot!) because everything has been a lot lately but I wanted to cover some of the things we've been working on beh...
2023-02-15 08:49:09 +0000 UTC View PostMap tile analytics
Hi all,
We are currently looking into options for alternative map tile servers, however in order to do this we need to gain an understanding of how many tiles we are currently loading each month. To obtain this data we'll be temporar...
GRAW Radiosondes sponsors SondeHub
I am very happy to announce that we have a new sponsor and partnership for 2023, GRA...
2023-01-01 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostDecember updates
Logging reduction
- Remove MQTT logs
- Only log exceptions for ingestion
- Moved monitoring dashboard to Grafana
One ...
2022-12-22 10:34:45 +0000 UTC View PostOctober updates
Listener websockets
A combined effort between Mark and I has moved listener (station) updates to via websockets now! This is a huge improvement in terms of cost and performance. When a chase car updates its position it shoul...
2022-10-17 02:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's been happening?
It's been a little while since I've last posted, mostly because I've been busy, but that doesn't mean progress has stopped on SondeHub. Most of the teams effort has been in supporting the 2022-09-16 23:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Grafana (trial/beta/something)
Before I kick off, I just wanted to mention that updates on the Patreon are probably going to be slow over the next months as I'll be travelling, but thats not to say progress on SondeHub will slow down. Mark and Luke are always improving the plat...
2022-06-29 01:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostARDC + AREG support
Eagle eyed users of SondeHub may of noticed some new logos on our loading screen from ARDC,...
2022-05-21 23:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostAmateur balloon tracker
For awhile I've mentioned that we've added endpoints in our API for tracking of amateur radio balloon launches, along with an APRS ingestion pipeline. Well we now have a tracker up!
2022-04-22 22:04:29 +0000 UTC
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Database outage
We recently had a DB outage and I wanted to explain what went wrong.
First some background. On Friday I upgrade our Elastic Search 7.9 cluster to OpenSearch 1.2 - this went well (however we are still monitoring performance of this change). T...
2022-04-09 09:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostAn update about prediction failures
We were alerted that predictions were old / delayed. Upon investigating it appears that over time the function that processes our predictions was taking longer and longer to process predictions. It appears that in some edge cases some radiosondes ...
2022-03-18 08:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostAmateur balloon tracking dashboards
We've been progressing a little bit on amateur balloon tracking and recently AREG launched a balloon "UPANDUP" which was tracked by several stations running the latest version of 2022-02-16 00:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Data transfer cost improvements
As SondeHub grows in the number of stations and the number of website users our data transfer costs increase. When there was only a handful for stations using SondeHub this wasn't a big deal but now that SondeHub but now that SondeHub is nearing 8...
2022-02-16 00:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostXDATA and Radiosondy.info Recovery
XDATA Instrument Decoding
The radiosondes that we detect will sometimes include secondary instruments such as Ozone se...
2022-01-29 06:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostSkew-T and Historic data
The SondeHub tracker has been updated this month gaining two new major features, viewing historical launch site data, and generating Skew-T plots. The historical launch site data allows you to plot the landing positions for all sondes assigned to ...
2021-12-26 02:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostPredictor performance improvements and ElasticSearch/Opensearch
Predictor Updates
We've been having issues with our home run predictor. When a prediction would run the server would lock and several requests would take a long time too come back. Previously we ran the predictor using a win...
2021-12-06 00:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostInfrastructure as code
I've had this week off from work so I've had a little bit of time to work on various parts of SondeHub. Most of the work I'm doing has been around cleaning up our terraform configuration. Terraform is the tool we use to manage everything that's de...
2021-10-28 22:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostReverse Predictions
Regular users of the SondeHub tracker will be familiar with the live flight-path predictions run for all radiosondes showing up on the map. These predictions are run using the 2021-10-10 03:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Predictions update
A feature we've been meaning to get to is showing predictions for longer. What do I mean by this?
Previously predictions only used the last 5 minutes worth of data to generate a prediction, however this was based on current time. So if the ...