New application but no app yet - Orb

Apps and Virtualization
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From the makers of Ookla’s speedtest and like one other thing, comes a nice little tool called Orb. Not gonna sell it very hard, but it’s slick, with an Orb app and Orb sensors. They support a whole bunch of architectures for the sensors already. Between the app and the sensor, you get a nice look into your internet quality (speed, reliability, latency) with your own sensor data, as you deploy sensors on your network to just about anything.

Since they offer a docker container, and Scale Apps are pretty much that, anyone wanna take a swing at baking Orb into an App? It just launched today so their devs are happy to help out.

https://orb.net/ if you are curious or want to cook with it.

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Short update. They supply a yaml file that includes watchtower to keep the docker orb sensor instance up to date. Within TrueNas apps, you can get to the fully custom app screen that allows you to paste a yaml file.

All you need to do to deploy the sensor is just paste their yaml in and save. It’ll do the rest, and runs nicely with all the defaults. It’s slow to start and make sure you already have the full blown frontend on your phone or whatever so you can add the sensor to your account when you’re done.

TLDR don’t really need a dedicated app after all.