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NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.26 released! (github.com)
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Self-hosted nutrition + wellness tracker. Latest release rolls up two weeks of work.

New features (rc.21 → rc.26):

  • Recipe yields — declare "this makes N servings" and per-serving math flows through the diary
  • Intermittent fasting tracker — custom presets, history, recurring schedule that auto-starts at a chosen time on chosen days
  • Adaptive TDEE — learns your true daily expenditure from a rolling 35-day window of weight + diary instead of a static estimate
  • Android biometric sign-in — fingerprint / face unlock in server-connected mode
  • Per-serving Open Food Facts import — when a barcode-scanned product has serving data, prefill nutrition per-serving instead of per-100g
  • Health Connect → web — Android-synced Health Connect data now reaches the server and renders on the web Wellness page
  • Sharing rework — per-category sharing form, source filter on Meals/Recipes, zxcvbn-backed password-strength policy

Bug fixes: cross-pollinated food images on diary entries, duplicate foods on rapid barcode scans, scheduler crash, Mealie Test button.

Repo: https://github.com/TraceApps/nutritrace Release: https://github.com/TraceApps/nutritrace/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.26

Single docker compose, SQLite, signed APK on the release page.

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[–] ion@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New features look great. I'm currently hosting this and integrated with Mealie. I cook a lot, so I've got my recipes along with the aggregated nutrition data on Mealie. A bit of work up front but I can now just add my morning omelette and the per-serving data seems to be coming into Nutritrace accurately. Looking forward to checking out the new features.

Ran into some issues when testing the integration, but the actual integration works fine. Could be a bug? Could be that I'm not that smart. I'll check to see if there's already something documented.

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Let me know your issues and post server/browser console/app logs, and ill do my best to assist. You can also create an issue if you feel that this is a bug in the repo. Outside of this i do want to mention, im working on a suite of "Trace" apps. One of which is a Recipe app. I love Mealie, but wanted a bit more for myself, and have created something that i think will be special. It also allows for direct api integration to and from NutriTrace. Will hopefully have a beta that will be publicly available in the next month or so if interested.

[–] WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really like what I see, but why does the Android app need google play services to have camera permissions to scan UPCs?

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you and great question. There's already an open issue for this in the repo (#31) and the fix is in dev. Next RC will have it. The Android scanner will use the bundled ML Kit model directly, with no Google Play Services calls at runtime. Same scanning engine.

[–] WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awesome! Thanks for the update!

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

latest update has been released!

[–] WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dang, you're crushing it

This change matches my request perfectly

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

thank you, appreciate it!

[–] OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks great! I've also added Nutritrace to OpenAltFinder. It's the first self hosted nutrition tracker there now.

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Thank you so much! I appreciate it!

[–] NewDawnOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

damn. Good features. I was hoping to move onto this as part of the portfolio pieces/improve habits self hosted DB thing I'm working on, but for now I guess I can learn some of the things I don't know how to do yet (like shipping to other people!) from your team.

How are you planning on reacting to the android freedoms getting compromised? I'm literally working on the android app for mine now, and it bums me out that they're going to put more invasions of privacy for deploying apps to your own phone.

Also, are you planning to make money from this somehow? If yes, how?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is it less of a massive pain in the ass to setup than SparkyFitness?

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For docker, It is only one service. everything else can be setup in app once you are in if you so choose. Android App can be used with or without server.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing from the example conf files that https would be manually configured through nginx?

Also, in case I missed it from the repo, is there the ability to integrate wger?

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, TLS is left to a reverse proxy (nginx, Caddy, Traefik, Cloudflare Tunnel). The container serves plain HTTP on a port you map; whatever you put in front handles the cert.

No wger integration today. NutriTrace covers food + wellness + workout sync (from Fitbit/Garmin/Withings/Google Health/Health Connect), but doesn't connect to wger or other dedicated exercise-routine apps. My soon to be released app in the Trace family of apps will be dedicated to lifting, and will include wger integration to name one of its exercise databases (as well as support for custom imports).

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 4 days ago

Thank you for info!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Personal food database with photos, barcodes, categories, and custom labels

Where do you source your barcodes from? The reason I am asking is that I would like to give Grocy/Barcode Buddy a better barcode pool to draw from. As it is now, it's kind of hit and miss. Most brand names are fine, but off brands or store brands are kind of iffy.

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Open Food Facts (OFF) for barcodes. Free, open license, community-edited. Their API: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/.json

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks man! Nice looking project BTW

[–] Nomad64@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is there a way to migrate a food diary from another app like MyFitnessPal?

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes! Settings → Backup → Nutrition Import. Built-in adapters for MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, LoseIt, and a generic CSV shape. Export your diary from MFP (it's a CSV in their account settings), upload it, preview, commit. Skip / Merge / Replace per-date semantics, so you can re-import safely without overwriting.

[–] Nomad64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I created a helper script to export custom foods from MFP and store them in the NutriTrace JSON format, in case you find it helpful. https://gist.github.com/nomad64/87cf935d8373d730383c5a0e98693c94

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice work, exactly the kind of bridge that makes leaving MFP a lot less painful for self-hosters. Would you be OK with me linking the gist from the NutriTrace README (under Foods & Meals) and from inside the Bulk Food Import modal? Happy to credit it as your script with a link back to the gist.

Either way, thanks for putting it together.

[–] Nomad64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Actually, I moved it to a proper repo. I also created a script to get the proper food diary info from MFP.

https://github.com/nomad64/mfp-to-nutritrace

[–] Nomad64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, feel free to link to it or integrate it into NutriTrace directly. MFP doesn't allow users to export a lot of their data and what they do allow is pretty minimal (ex: food diary doesn't export the food diary, simply a diary of each meal).

I don't plan on supporting it, so it might break whenever MFP decides to update their API. But I am just glad if it helps even one person.

[–] Nomad64@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Nice! I will have to look into this when I have time in the coming weeks. Looks like a cool project!

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn, I was hoping that it would be an android app with Health Connect support 😅

Looks very nice though!

[–] TraceApps@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is an android app with Health Connect Support! Android app works with or without the server! :)

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I completely overlooked the android app in the readme, thanks! I have a server set up so can I start local to try it out and migrate to a server later?

Also is there support for mealie through an authentication platform like authelia?

Any plans for releasing on F-droid?

Edit: Oof, you can't search for foods when making a recipe or meal, hopefully that comes because otherwise it is a huge process to make any custom meal or recipe...

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
nginx Popular HTTP server

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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