readsb-protobuf VS airdash

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

Project is here, hit me up on github if you need anything: https://github.com/mik3y/airdash

ended up building a new maps front end for air traffic, also supports ships (AIS) with a second radio. here it is: airdash

Count me in! I started some instructions here: https://github.com/mik3y/airdash/wiki/Running-RTL-AIS-on-Raspberry-Pi

If you're interested in building your own ship tracker, have I got an incomplete (but functioning!) quarantine boredom project for you:

  https://github.com/mik3y/airdash

This is neat! I’m building a new frontend for ADS-B traffic, in part to support new features that would be too hard to add to tar1090: https://github.com/mik3y/airdash

Setup from https://github.com/mik3y/airdash#developer-instructions, using Docker:

I'll do another post when I've made more progress and cleaned up instructions. If you're handy with code, you can give it a try here: https://github.com/mik3y/airdash