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I built a fishing forecast platform for the Balkans on a 2× Raspberry Pi K3s cluster

Reddit r/selfhosted·u/xMahadevAx·about 1 month ago
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I built a fishing forecast platform for the Balkans on a 2× Raspberry Pi K3s cluster Hey r/selfhosted, Sharing a side project I've been running on my homelab for a while now — fishingbalkan.com — a free fishing forecast platform covering rivers in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, and the wider Western Balkans. I'm a DevSecOps engineer, not a fisherman, but built this for friends and family who fish. It started as "let me scrape the government water gauge site so dad doesn't have to" and grew into a proper platform. \## What it does For 14 fishing locations along the Danube, Sava, Tisa, Drina, and Morava rivers, it aggregates: \- Real-time water level (from DanubeHIS + Serbian Hydrometeorological Institute scrapers) \- Water + air temperature \- Wind direction, speed, and gusts \- Atmospheric pressure with trend \- Solunar major/minor periods (moon position) \- Closed season periods per fish species (legal restrictions) \- A composite 0–100 fishing score per location, per species, using a weighted…

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