ADS-B Airplane Tracking
Tracking Airplanes Overhead, Ourselves
Living near the Auburn Municipal Airport and under the flight path leading out of SeaTac, my family and I are often curious what airplanes we spy flying overhead.
We put together some off-the-shelf hardware and pre-configured software that then provide real time data to our own webpages and in-home displays.
I started with a $50 USB radio receiver especially for receiving ADS-B airplane telemetry transmissions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F2ND4R6
Installed this snap into my iRev.net Ubuntu server: https://github.com/tsunghanliu/adsb-box.snap
Downstairs, under the family's television, I mounted an old USB LCD monitor and old fanless mini PC running Ubuntu. The box autostarts a Python script that uses the familiar PyGame library.
More ▼I started with the code at https://github.com/nicespoon/retro-adsb-radar and then the kiddo modified it for the family's preferred styling and priority information.
Programming
