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! ***
Since my Allsky camera has been publicly accessible via its own subdomain, I regularly see access attempts from certain countries. IPs from Russia (RU) and China (CN) in particular appear disproportionately often in the log files – mostly automated scanners, bots or credential stuffing attempts.
Of course, a hardened system (firewall, Fail2Ban, rate limits, HTTPS) already provides pretty good protection. But: I wouldn’t have to pull many of these requests into my system in the first place. That’s why I also use geo-blocking: the Raspberry Pi simply rejects TCP connections from certain countries before the web server reaches them.
If you run an indi-allsky installation on a Raspberry Pi and want to make it publicly accessible via your own domain, you will quickly encounter two typical challenges:
In this article, I will show you the complete, working solution: A Let’s-Encrypt certificate for a subdomain such as access.allsky-rodgau.de, delivered via Apache as a reverse proxy, including a functioning auto-renewal routine via HTTP-01 challenge.
***This guide was updated in December 2025 and works perfectly for me***