readsb-protobuf VS docker-readsb-protobuf

Mictronic's aircraft database appears to be available on github as json. It looks like they may also have the type descriptions from the ICAO doc available in json at the same link. I haven't looked that closely at the data. Previously I wrote some code to scrape it from the ICAO site.

this sub recently turned me on to readsb-protobuf, which is a more modern decoder that fills the same role as dump1090. there's a really nice Docker container that packages it up, and includes an output to InfluxDB, a time-series database. so you could potentially build this as a set of queries against an Influx instance, rather than maintaining your own state in a JSON file.

If you're interested in seeing your own data then you could just run something like readsb (https://github.com/Mictronics/readsb-protobuf) and tar1090 (https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090)

Depending on what you're running, you can push to plane.watch via a combination of readsb and mlat-client or we can pull from you - jump into the Discord and we'll see what works?

I find the dependencies for readsb-protobuf really difficult to install manually according to the instructions at https://github.com/Mictronics/readsb-protobuf.

There's really no need to pay FA to use an api for data that is publicly available. https://github.com/Mictronics/readsb-protobuf/tree/dev/webapp/src/db

a 5-10 year old laptop should have no problem running a feeder. just install your Linux distro of choice, plug in the SDR, and get tar1090 or readsb running. (I'd recommend the readsb-protobuf docker containers)

this sub recently turned me on to readsb-protobuf, which is a more modern decoder that fills the same role as dump1090. there's a really nice Docker container that packages it up, and includes an output to InfluxDB, a time-series database. so you could potentially build this as a set of queries against an Influx instance, rather than maintaining your own state in a JSON file.

Mikenye’s Adsb docker images are freaking amazing. Use readadsb-protobuf, piaware and graph1090 and you will have your own flight tracker and be able to feed to various sources. I’ve been running this for about a year (prior I ran it barebones).

https://github.com/mikenye/docker-readsb-protobuf This guy has a great collections of docker containers that can feed to a large number of websites and even save all messages to influxdb for later use, it can use the USB SDR directly from the container. Here is the documentation for it: https://mikenye.gitbook.io/ads-b/