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ARDC + AREG support

Added 2022-05-21 23:20:21 +0000 UTC

Eagle eyed users of SondeHub may of noticed some new logos on our loading screen from ARDC, AREG and of course Patreon. ARDC and AREG have teamed up to provide financial support for SondeHub. Between ARDC+AREG and our Patreon supporters we'll be able to ensure SondeHub remains operational for the at least the next year - and hopefully more!

We are very grateful for their support and this funding allows us to focus on adding new features to the platform (eg, we likely wouldn't have been able to start working on the Amateur tracker without this).

Like wise we are very grateful for your support as well! Without Patreon supporters SondeHub would be a completely different and limited experience.

Other bits of news / additions

For Amateur SondeHub we want to allow users launching balloons to be able to change the prediction parameters for their launches. For this feature we wanted to add the ability for authentication and in the future authorisation. Doing so required building a login flow for the tracker and it seems to be working quite well. A few prediction settings have been reconfigured using the flow now and seems to work ok (after some of the early bugs were fixed)!

The authentication system also opens up new possibilities for having registered stations and API key generation. This is something we haven't needed yet, but something we'd like to explore in the future.

Mark has also started working on extending pysondehub to support uploading of telemetry. This will become our reference client for uploading data to SondeHub. Look out for updates in this space.