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Build your own network ADS-B receiver with PiAware from FlightAware for under $100
You can build and run your own ADS-B ground station to be installed anywhere and receive real-time data directly from airplanes that you can view locally and also integrate with FlightAware. For about USD$100/EUR€80, your ground station can run PiAware to track flights within 100-300 miles (line of sight, range depending on antenna installation) and will automatically feed data to FlightAware. (flightaware.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
For the ROI folks, Enterprise level registrations go for $89/mo....
Just ordered everything on the needed list, it will all arrive Thursday so I'll let everyone know how it goes!
If you are from China. Something is different to build PiAware at first. My friend and I will write a document in Chinese, then tell you how to build.
Wait, so could you buy the antenna and run this on any Debian based OS, and skip the Raspberry Pi?
Yes, although the PiAware Debian package we ship is for Raspbian and requires an ARM processor with hard float. On another platform, you could download the source and build it yourself:
https://github.com/flightaware/piaware
https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090_mr
Definitely document your steps & we can publish the process.
https://github.com/flightaware/piaware
https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090_mr
Definitely document your steps & we can publish the process.
Interesting! How fast of a pipe would you require for feeding the data to FA?
It typically uses less than 2 kilobits/second of upstream bandwidth. For a super busy site near a major airport, I think 8 kilobits/second is a reasonable upper limit. We did some work to manage that as we filter out a lot of packets, combine many messages into a single packet and do compression on the entire stream. It's also possible to run PiAware on a cell data connection (such as 3G) for remote site deployments although we haven't documented this yet.
Even more interesting! So this means that basically, anyone stuck with a Fiber to a T3 to a 33.6K modem could run this.
and more interesting than that is that if you say that you could run this on a 3G connection, you imply that this could be compiled as an app for a smartphone.
I'm so very tempted. :)
and more interesting than that is that if you say that you could run this on a 3G connection, you imply that this could be compiled as an app for a smartphone.
I'm so very tempted. :)
Or at least with your smartphone running as a wifi hotspot.