Routly.

Notes from running this

What self-hosting a fleet platform actually costs, what white-labelling one involves, and how a migration off a per-vehicle contract really goes. Written from the deployments rather than from a keyword list.

Routly and Navixy: two ways to white-label — Routly

Comparisons

Routly and Navixy: two ways to white-label

Both let a provider run a fleet platform under their own brand. Navixy licenses you a product; Routly gives you the source. When each is the better trade.

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Five self-hosted fleet platforms, compared — Routly

Comparisons

Five self-hosted fleet platforms, compared

Traccar, OpenGTS, Fleetbase, Wialon Local and Routly. What each is for, the licence, the stack, and the one question that eliminates three of them for you.

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What AGPL-3.0 actually means for your business — Routly

Compliance

What AGPL-3.0 actually means for your business

Section 13 in plain terms: what triggers the obligation, what does not, and the four situations where a commercial licence is the answer instead.

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Driver scoring people will actually act on — Routly

Engineering

Driver scoring people will actually act on

Ten thousand harsh-braking events change nothing. A ranked list does. The weights we use, why fuel dominates them, and what a score must never be used for.

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The six fleet metrics worth a dashboard — Routly

Operations

The six fleet metrics worth a dashboard

Most fleet dashboards measure what is easy. These six change decisions, with what each is really telling you and the trap that comes with it.

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What fleet software actually costs over three years — Routly

Self-hosting

What fleet software actually costs over three years

A worksheet, not an argument: subscription against self-hosting, including the install and integration costs the per-vehicle price leaves out.

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Routly and Fleetbase: which problem is yours? — Routly

Comparisons

Routly and Fleetbase: which problem is yours?

Both are AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, and they answer different questions. Fleetbase is logistics operations; Routly is fleet telemetry and what you sell on top.

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From flespi to a database you own — Routly

Migration

From flespi to a database you own

Flespi buffers parsed telemetry for 30 days. If you want it to keep it, and to query it yourself, you need somewhere to put it. The options and the trade-offs.

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Fuel theft detection is a rule, not magic — Routly

Engineering

Fuel theft detection is a rule, not magic

The difference between a drain and a shift of ordinary burn is a rate of change. The thresholds we use, the false positives they cause, and how to tune them.

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Vehicle tracking and GDPR: what you may record — Routly

Compliance

Vehicle tracking and GDPR: what you may record

Location data about a named driver is personal data. The legal basis you need, why consent rarely works, the out-of-hours rule, and what to put in the notice.

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Self-hosted fleet management, honestly costed — Routly

Self-hosting

Self-hosted fleet management, honestly costed

What it takes to run fleet management on your own servers: the components, the operational load, the cost against per-vehicle SaaS, and when not to.

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Storing GPS telemetry: the schema and what it costs — Routly

Engineering

Storing GPS telemetry: the schema and what it costs

Why positions live in ClickHouse and everything else in Postgres, which codec goes on which column, what we measured, and where ClickHouse is the wrong choice.

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Looking for a Traccar alternative? — Routly

Comparisons

Looking for a Traccar alternative?

Traccar decodes the devices; Routly is the part your customer sees. When Traccar alone is enough, what Routly adds, and how to run both instead.

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Running Traccar past a thousand devices — Routly

Engineering

Running Traccar past a thousand devices

Where Traccar starts to hurt at scale, what the community actually reports, the tuning that helps, and when to split ingest from the application layer.

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White-label fleet software you host yourself — Routly

White-label

White-label fleet software you host yourself

Host a fleet platform for your own customers under your own name: isolated organisations, per-customer report branding, and a licence that permits reselling.

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Leaving Wialon without touching a single tracker — Routly

Migration

Leaving Wialon without touching a single tracker

The Wialon retranslator forwards live telemetry to a second system while Wialon keeps running. The migration path, with no device reconfigured.

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