The home situational awareness display nobody wanted or needed!
A completely unnecessary military situational awareness display for your home. It shows the location of nearby aircraft and ships in real time. It does this by pulling ADS-B data in JSON format from a Dump1090 server and AIS from AIS Repeater's KML snapshots. It then shows them overlaid on a map using NATO symbology.
This was a weekend project, it's a very hacky layer on top of the already dubious code for UMID 1090.
I spent too much time thinking about whether I could, and not enough time thinking about whether I should.
No idea. Ex-military hams who can't leave the SIGINT life behind? Turbo nerds with a hard-on for MIL-STD 2525 symbology? Anyone with a family tolerant enough to let them wall-mount a huge telly and make their kitchen look like Apollo Mission Control?
Blame @elderlygoose
You can see it running, showing live data from my ADS-B and AIS receivers, at https://planesailing.ianrenton.com.
You can check out the hardware and build guide at https://ianrenton.com/hardware/planesailing/.
My code in this project is subject to "The Unlicence", i.e. it's public domain and you can do what you want with it.
If you want to use this for yourself, go right ahead. There are some static variables at the top of code.js that you will need to tweak to match your install; you also need your own CheckWX API key in order to get the METAR data working properly. Let me know if you need any help. If you'd like some nicer tilesets let me know, I have some great-looking ones on Mapbox that you can use - I had to stop using them on Plane/Sailing because I hit the API limit and it started costing me money, but you can use it for free provided you keep under the limit.
Note that this repository only provides the web-based user interface, and so is only part of the whole system. If you want to recreate the whole thing for yourself, you will need to point it at web interfaces of ADS-B and AIS data servers you provide, connected to radio receivers and antennas you provide. It's not pulling data from sites with global coverage APIs like FlightRadar24 or MarineTraffic. Check out the build guide for more information.
Sure. Pull request away!
- APRS?
- Whatever else I can pick up with the ever expanding set of Raspberry Pis and RTL-SDR dongles on my desk