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Learn Hive-Pal, from first hive to your own server.

Guides for recording apiaries, hives and inspections, and for running Hive-Pal on hardware you control.

Honey bees working across a capped frame

Two ways to run it

Use hivepal.app

Sign up and start recording straight away. The hosted app runs the same open-source code, and you can export your data at any time.

Run it yourself

One Docker image with the API and web app, plus a PostgreSQL database. Two containers, one compose file.

# docker-compose.yaml: the app and a PostgreSQL database
services:
app:
image: ghcr.io/martinhrvn/hive-pal:latest
ports: ['80:3000']
postgres:
image: postgres:14

$ docker compose up -d

Open source, MIT licensed.

Hive-Pal is built in the open by beekeepers. Bug reports, fixes and corrections to these pages are all welcome.