#Piaware Flight Data Reader ##Martin O'Hanlon (martin@ohanlonweb.com) ##http://www.stuffaboutcode.com
##Description A python 3 module to read flight data from the PiAware solution.
http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2015/09/read-piaware-flight-data-with-python.html
##Structure
- flightdata.py - the flightdata python module
##Usage
from flightdata import FlightData
from time import sleep
myflights = FlightData()
while True:
#loop through each aircraft found
for aircraft in myflights.aircraft:
#read the aircraft data
print(aircraft.hex)
print(aircraft.squawk)
print(aircraft.flight)
print(aircraft.lat)
print(aircraft.lon)
print(aircraft.validposition)
print(aircraft.altitude)
print(aircraft.vert_rate)
print(aircraft.track)
print(aircraft.validtrack)
print(aircraft.speed)
print(aircraft.messages)
print(aircraft.seen)
print(aircraft.mlat)
sleep(1)
#refresh the flight data
myflights.refresh()
##Version history
- 0.1 - Initial stable version