tar1090 VS docker-readsb-protobuf

This is cool in concept, but FlightRadar24 has a built-in Augmented Reality feature that works really well.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/show-us-your-best-augment...

Also, if I were to build my own local copy, I'd use an RTLSDR to get the ADSB packets direct and base my app on tar1090. https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

I am using node red to readout data from tar1090. https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090 Here is the Flow I am using to report if one of our police helicopters is in the air

It’s called tar1090: https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

There's also this, which is how tar1090 works stuff out: https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090/blob/master/html/registrations.js

The default setting for tar1090 simply is 4 rings starting at 100nm. Depending on how you are running the software, you can change the default.

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/