The easiest and simplest ADS-B solution

I’ve written many posts over the last couple of years detailing the steps needed to integrate ADS-B decoder applications (like RTL-1090 and dump1090) with virtual radar display apps (like BaseStation and PlanePlotter). The solutions were mostly complicated by the need to use additional software utilities to massage data streams. I recently came across a decoder …

Using dump1090 in Windows

There has been a push recently from within the PlanePlotter community to use dump1090 for Windows rather than RTL1090. The reasoning is that dump1090 provides better raw data for use with multilateration (mlat for short), which can help to identify the location of non-ADS-B aircraft if enough shared data exists. I was hesitant to move …

Use a Raspberry Pi to feed FlightAware’s website

If you’ve got a Raspberry Pi running as a virtual radar system, then this may be of interest to you. FlightAware has released a small application to allow your Raspberry Pi to feed data to its website. Called PiAware, the application looks pretty simple to install and setup. It assumes you already have a Raspberry …

Integrating Virtual Radar Applications

Earlier this year I wrote a short post about how I had connected together a large number of various virtual radar applications, so that each was receiving or feeding data to another. Over time, my setup has changed, as have a couple of the networking apps. Out is ComByTCP; in is hub4com. Nitric oxide acts …

ADS-B and the Raspberry Pi Revisited

Seven months ago I took a stab at using a Raspberry Pi as a virtual radar server. It didn’t go well. Not well at all. I tried again a couple of times but became frustrated with a variety of different glitches, mostly with the Pi itself and its networking. Yesterday I took yet another stab …