ADS-B-BaseStationReader

About

• An RTL2832/R820T2 USB Dongle is plugged into the dump1090 host machine
• The host is running the dump1090-mutability service to decode the data from the dongle
• One of the outputs is a decoded stream of messages in "Basestation" format, that is exposed on a TCP port on the Pi
• This stream is read by the MessageReader, that exposes an event used to notify subscribers when a new message arrives
• The AircraftTracker subscribes to these events and passes each new message to the message parsers to have the information it contains extracted into an aircraft tracking object
• The AircraftTracker enqueues each new tracking object for asynchronous writing to the SQLite database
• It also exposes events to notify subscribers when aircraft are added, updated and removed
• The ContinuousWriter processes pending requests from the queue, in strictly serial order
• External API integrations are supported for automatic/manual lookup of:
  • Live and historical flight details
  • Airline details
  • Aircraft details
  • METAR reporting

Getting Started

Please see the Wiki for configuration details and the user guide.

Authors

• Dave Walker - Initial work - LinkedIn

Feedback

To file issues or suggestions, please use the Issues page for this project on GitHub.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.