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PDFMathTranslatevsrpi-mqtt-monitor

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

PDFMathTranslaterpi-mqtt-monitor
Score80/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Translation#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars38 012328
Stars, last 30 days+300+0
Stable releases, 12 months08
Latest release—1.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

PDFMathTranslate scores 80/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

rpi-mqtt-monitor ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PDFMathTranslate.

If you want the quickest setup, PDFMathTranslate is easier to run; rpi-mqtt-monitor needs more configuration.

PDFMathTranslate is growing faster right now (+300 stars in 30 days).

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