Not my project - found this courtesy of Hack-a-Day.
This free and open source software tool is designed to make it easy for individuals to keep track of both the routine maintenance needs of their vehicles, as well as keep track of any previous or upcoming repairs and upgrades.
Demo here: https://demo.lubelogger.com/Login/Index
User/pass: test/1234
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.
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 (owned by Fuelly since 2014) 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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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?
hey i just picked this up last week. i like it.
nobody should have to deal with kubernetes when it comes to vehicle maintenance.
I run this on a simple docker instance.
That’s just one option, there’s also a normal docker image.
