After updating indi‑allsky, it often happens that the local self-signed certificate (e.g. allsky.local) is suddenly used again, although a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate was previously set up. I will explain how to do this elsewhere!
The cause is almost always that the update routines change or reset the Apache configuration of the system. This article shows how to recognize the problem, fix it properly and configure the setup so that it will survive future updates.
indi‑allsky can retrieve weather data such as temperature, humidity or cloud cover directly from the OpenWeather API and integrate it into the image caption. This requires a valid API key and the coordinates of the location. The setup is done in the web interface under Sensors, where OpenWeather is selected as the source and the API key is entered. In addition, the longitude and latitude of the camera’s location must be set under “Location”.
I wanted to add additional information to my all-sky images: Aircraft data directly in the image, including callsign, altitude and direction. Since I didn’t want to run my own ADS-B setup, I used the Open Data API from adsb.fi and built a solution that works with indi‑allsky.
With the following instructions, you can use adsb.fi to receive up-to-date information on aircraft around the location of your Allsky camera every minute and have it displayed directly on the Allsky photo.
indi‑allsky comes with everything you need to always provide the latest image or video from the Allsky camera via redirect. This means that websites, blogs or dashboards can be provided with “live” views of the camera without much tinkering.
I use the whole thing on this page:
Live image from the Allsky camera in Rodgau‑Weiskirchen
I’ve been using the Brave browser for some time now, but when setting up the SSL certificate for my Allsky camera (see instructions), the browser was really bitchy. While Chrome and Safari accepted my Let’s Encrypt certificate immediately, Brave continued to display “Broken HTTPS” – even though the server was configured correctly and openssl confirmed a clean TLS chain. And this is how to solve the problem!
*** Note: A friendly reader pointed out to me that sometimes a restart of Brave is sufficient. However, I was unable to verify this. But maybe try it first before following the steps below! ***