Top 22 ads-b Open-Source Projects

• plane-notify

  56 2,487 2.7 Python

  Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using ADS-B data. Compares older data to newer data to determine if a landing or takeoff has occurred. As well as nav modes, emergency squawk and resolution advisory notifications. Can output to Twitter, Discord, Mastodon, and Telegram

• tar1090

  42 1,142 7.7 JavaScript

  Provides an improved webinterface for use with ADS-B decoders readsb / dump1090-fa

Project mention: My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-27

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

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• dump1090

  16 852 6.8 C

  Dump1090 is a simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices (by flightaware)

  

Project mention: Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages | dev.to | 2023-10-28

ADS-B is a protocol used by aircrafts to broadcast their position, altitude, speed, and other information. Nowadays, the majority of aircrafts broadcast ADS-B messages constantly. Anyone with the right equipment can listen to these messages. You can buy a relatively cheap USB dongle with an antenna on Amazon and install drivers for it on Linux. In my case I used usbipd-win to mount the USB device inside Ubuntu running in WSL2. Then I installed the Linux drivers and dump1090, a program that makes use of these drivers and then outputs ADS-B messages in a format that is easy to parse. While you can use dump1090 to display a neat table full of information about aircrafts, I wanted to use its raw output capabilities to parse ADS-B messages myself. It starts a simple TCP server that outputs raw ADS-B messages wrapped in Mode-S Beast frames. I'm not sure what Beast means, but I found something that looks like its spec here.

• SoftRF

  2 715 9.4 C

  :airplane: Multi-functional, compatible DIY general aviation proximity awareness system

• FlightAirMap

  1 493 0.0 TSQL

  Open source project displaying live aircrafts, ships or trackers on 2D/3D map. Browse through the data based on a particular aircraft, airline, airport, tracker or vessel to search through the database or see extensive statistics. Can use ADS-B in SBS1 format (dump1090, Radarcape,...), VRS, VA (VATSIM, IVAO whazzup.txt, phpvms,...), ACARS (acarsdec, acarsdeco2), APRS, AIS as datasource.

• SkyScan

  5 316 3.6 Jupyter Notebook

  Automatically photograph planes that fly by!

  

Project mention: IQTLabs/SkyScan: Automatically photograph planes that fly by | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-25

• readsb

  22 295 9.0 C

  ADS-B decoder swiss knife

Project mention: ADS-B setup | /r/RTLSDR | 2023-05-30

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• adsb.exposed

  2 194 8.9 HTML

  Interactive visualization and analytics on ADS-B data with ClickHouse

  

Project mention: Morton: Bit Interleaving in C/C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19

I use this technique in a few of my projects:

https://reversedns.space/ (a map of the Internet) - Morton curve is used as a visualization tool;

https://adsb.exposed/ (a visualizer of air traffic) - Morton curve is used as a database index;

Both projects are open-source, so you can find how exactly it is applied: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/blob/main/setup.s...

• docker-piaware

  3 141 7.4 Dockerfile

  Multi-arch PiAware docker container including support for bladeRF, RTLSDR, SoapySDR. Includes dump1090 & dump978 (amd64, arm/v6, arm/v7, arm64v8)

  

• gr-adsb

  2 140 2.7 Python

  GNU Radio OOT module for demodulating and decoding ADS-B packets

• docker-flightradar24

  1 130 8.4 Shell

  Multi-architecture docker container (arm32v7/arm64/x86_64) running flightradar24 fr24feed. Designed to work in tandem with https://sdr-e.com/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder

  

• fly-catcher

  3 121 7.8 Jupyter Notebook

  ✈️ A device that detects for aircraft spoofing by monitoring for malicious ADS-B signals in the 1090MHz frequency. Built using a Raspberry Pi 3B and a FlightAware SDR

Project mention: Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-10

For those interested in a good writeup on the subject, this explains alot of why Air Travel is vulnerable:

https://medium.com/@angelinatsuboi/detecting-hacker-aircraft...

Also, here's a link to the github:

https://github.com/ANG13T/fly-catcher

• StratuxHud

  3 115 0.0 Python

  Heads Up Display for use with Stratux. Designed for reflective HUD screens, intended for traffic call outs.

Project mention: Remembering what flying was like fifty years ago | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

I’m just here to plug my buddy John’s homebuilt/exerimentatal/open-source HUD, primarily intended for VFR use as an ADS-B traffic display.

https://github.com/JohnMarzulli/StratuxHud

• webusb-rtlsdr-aircraft-radar-system

  1 88 0.0 JavaScript

  Build an aircraft radar system using WebUSB and a RTL-SDR dongle to receive live data from airplanes 📡 ✈️

• readsb-protobuf

  7 86 7.7 C

  Readsb is a Mode-S/ADSB/TIS decoder for RTLSDR, BladeRF, Modes-Beast and GNS5894 devices. Future development version with protocol buffer storage.

• docker-adsbexchange

  2 67 8.2 Shell

  Feeds ADS-B data into adsbexchange.com. Designed to work with mikenye/readsb-protobuf.

  

• combine1090

  2 51 0.0 Shell

  Combine data from multiple ADS-B receivers into one readsb decoder / tar1090 webinterface

• adsbxcot

  2 42 6.4 Python

  Display Aircraft in TAK

  

Project mention: Alternative to fr24 / radarbox to set up notifications/alerts for specific geografic area | /r/ADSB | 2023-07-05

Thank you - i will have a look. Theres an script which "translates" data from abdsexchange api to the required "cot" file(s) which CivATAK needs. https://github.com/snstac/adsbxcot

• 1090webclient

  1 9 1.3 JavaScript

  A web client for dump1090

• adsb-stats-logger

  2 6 0.0 Python

  ADS-B Stats Logger from Dump1090

• PiAware-Docker

  3 2 2.8 JavaScript

  Docker build for PiAware + dump1090-fa + lighttpd. For Raspberry Pi

• adsb2mqtt

  1 2 6.3 C#

  Process ADS-B messages from dump1090 and build up full flight details from multiple messages; track flights within threshold in nautical miles; publish tracked flights to MQTT.

Project mention: My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-27

• SaaSHub

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  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024

• Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2024

• My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar

  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

• Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages

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• Alternative to fr24 / radarbox to set up notifications/alerts for specific geografic area

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• IQTLabs/SkyScan: Automatically photograph planes that fly by

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2023
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