[UKHAS] HABHub closure


Anthony Stirk
 

Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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James Ewen VE6SRV
 

Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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Dennis Klipa - N8ERF
 

On behalf of the hundreds of students in our program over the years who have benefited from your efforts, I thank you.  For many it was a/the highlight of their middle school and high school experience.  Your web tools will be missed.

Best Regards,
Dennis Klipa, N8ERF

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:56 AM James Ewen VE6SRV <ve6srv@...> wrote:
Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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Anthony Stirk
 

I believe most if not all of the functionality has been moved to https://sondehub.org/

Cheers

Anthony

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:37 PM Dennis Klipa - N8ERF <klipadk@...> wrote:
On behalf of the hundreds of students in our program over the years who have benefited from your efforts, I thank you.  For many it was a/the highlight of their middle school and high school experience.  Your web tools will be missed.

Best Regards,
Dennis Klipa, N8ERF

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:56 AM James Ewen VE6SRV <ve6srv@...> wrote:
Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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Mark Jessop
 

There's a bit of a writeup on what Sondehub and SondeHub-Amateur provide here: 

73
Mark VK5QI

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 6:11 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
I believe most if not all of the functionality has been moved to https://sondehub.org/

Cheers

Anthony

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:37 PM Dennis Klipa - N8ERF <klipadk@...> wrote:
On behalf of the hundreds of students in our program over the years who have benefited from your efforts, I thank you.  For many it was a/the highlight of their middle school and high school experience.  Your web tools will be missed.

Best Regards,
Dennis Klipa, N8ERF

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:56 AM James Ewen VE6SRV <ve6srv@...> wrote:
Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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stan siems
 

If you are looking for a server site I have a fiber feed that we now have 3gb access and can go as high as 10 gb $$

also have backup power plus solar. CNS internet services Ackley Iowa


On 12/29/2022 9:55 AM, James Ewen VE6SRV wrote:

Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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Mark Jessop
 

It's worth noting that one of the main issues that resulted in the HabHub servers being shut-down was not really one of hosting and cost, it was more about software and maintenance. 

I'm abridging this, but the Habitat software was written in ~2012, and was reliant on old versions of libraries and databases, and would have required significant effort to make it work with updated libraries. The original developers have moved on to full-time jobs and don't really have the time to do the work required, and no-one else had stepped up to do it.

With SondeHub (and SondeHub-Amateur) we started from scratch with a modern database (in our case, ElasticSearch). We're also running everything on AWS so things like software patching, automatic scaling based on load, and DDOS protection are taken care of automatically. Yes, it costs more to run, but it also takes a lot less time to manage.

73
Mark VK5QI


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:17 PM stan siems <ssiems@...> wrote:

If you are looking for a server site I have a fiber feed that we now have 3gb access and can go as high as 10 gb $$

also have backup power plus solar. CNS internet services Ackley Iowa


On 12/29/2022 9:55 AM, James Ewen VE6SRV wrote:
Thank you to everyone involved in providing the exceptional service that HABHUB provided over the years.

We have come a long way from when I launched my first high altitude balloon a few decades ago. Predictions are simple point and click exercises now versus all of the manual work that was required back then. HABHUB was an instrumental part of that journey from the "dark ages" to where we are today.

Thank you for all of the support you all have provided to the HAB community over the years.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:22 AM Anthony Stirk <upuaut@...> wrote:
Just a reminder the Habhub servers will be shut down permanently tomorrow 30/12/2022 around 11am UK time.

Anthony M0UPU

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:12 PM Steve <steve@...> wrote:

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*.  The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected.

As alternatives I suggest folk use:

    Tracker: https://amateur.sondehub.org/

    Predictor: https://predict.sondehub.org/

    Burst Calculator: https://sondehub.org/calc/

Folk are actively working on alternative solutions for SSDV and the UKHAS wiki (watch this space).

The sondehub tracker does not support the UKHAS sentence interface – this means that dl-fldigi will not work with it.  Mark Jessop has been asking for help to develop a UKHAS sentence interface for SondeHub – so if this is something you feel you could do, then please step forward.  

Some limited support of UKHAS strings is included Horus-GUI decoder (which will also decode some formats of RTTY) – as far as I know this will be the only way to get legacy UKHAS RTTY strings shown on SondeHub. See: https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/wiki/1.1-Horus-GUI-Reception-Guide-(Windows-Linux-OSX)

SondeHub has no equivalent of the hourly predictor for HAB flights, however there is something similar for radiosonde sites within the SondeHub radiosonde tracker https://tracker.sondehub.org.

amateur.sondehub.org imports Balloon flights from APRS in the same way as the HABhub tracker – so APRS balloon flights (and pico flights forwarded to APRS) will continue to be shown.
 
Dave Akerman has been beavering away on supporting sondehub on the PITS gateway, HAB Base, Explora and PADD apps.

Some work is underway on migrating TTNHABbridge to use Sondehub.


I'll take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to all that worked habhub tools over the years – the ones I remember are (apologies if I've forgotten you):

    Rossen Georgiev
    Adam Greig,
    Daniel Richman.
    Daniel Saul
    Priyesh Patel
    Mark Jessop
    Jon Sowman
    James Coxon
    Stelios Bounanos
    Philip Heron
    Matthew Brejza

and finally huge thanks to Anthony Stirk for hosting the servers for many years.

     Steve G8KHW / AJ4XE


*this was originally scheduled for the end of the year – but has been brought forward (mainly due to energy crisis).


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