Can i get a text list of the aircraft in view?

[ClarDold]

24 hours of heatmap.sh gives me three png files that I have to go into a darkened closet to see ;-)
I might need bigger pixels, or a smaller graph. I didn't investigate the heatmap options.
nohup ./heatmap.sh 1440 10 > heatmap.out

Google Drive folder of images, including "heywhatsthat" and a screenshot of my google map.


I finally got around to writing some python against the /run/dump1090-fa files. Of course, I forgot that there was only one hour's worth of files sitting there, and, in the Covid timeframe, there aren't that many flights visible to me in an hour. Apparently 1000+ positions in some hours, since heatmap had 29155 in 24 hours.
So, I grabbed a set every hour for 24 hours. Still not too satisfying. My map clearly shows the track of individual aircraft.
I only saved records that had a flight number in them, with a high of 809 positions in all the one hour samples that I grabbed. Low of 7, some with none. Average 294.
I combined several days, and then discovered that my grand plan of uploading them to "google my maps" was stymied by an upload limit of 2000 data points. I split them into 10,000 foot increments, and the 2000 limit curtailed some of the altitudes.

My Google HeatMap


In another thread, I was trying to figure out if my daughter and I, sixty miles apart, could see the same airplanes.
My postion limit is a little larger than my visible limit because of ground level obstructions, but close.
We could both see the same southbound flight and contrail at the midpoint between us, and 10-15 miles beyond.
I could not see the westbound flight that was near her.
I pulled just those two flights from my files, immediately after we had our visual observations and conversation.

Here is my crossing contrails Google Map.

[ClarDold]

These scripts by caius should be interesting to you:
https://discussions.flightaware.com/...06?u=wiedehopf

Now that I know where the raw data resides, I can easily parse my simple Google Map.

I tried the heatmap.sh, but I need to install more packages in my pi, and I got distracted by work :-)

[wiedehopf]

Don't try and use tar1090 history files, i remove pretty much everything but the location to speed up loading times.

These scripts by caius should be interesting to you:
https://discussions.flightaware.com/...06?u=wiedehopf

To make data collection easier and just have 24h of data at hand, you can use this:
https://github.com/wiedehopf/timelap...#timelapse1090

[magnum]

there's an easier way as the data is stored in a directory including 120 history files for the last 60 minutes:

/run/dump1090-fa


In this folder you will find the aircraft.json plus the 120 files named history_xxx.json.
You could also use these for your investigation.

In addtion somebody created an adapted view named "tar1090" which is based on Skyaware. This contain a larger history as well.

[ClarDold]

/dump1090-fa/data/aircraft.json

you'll have to parse it appropriately.

I speak Python. That looks quite similar to some data for which I have code lying around, somewhere.
It looks like it is updating once per second.

Once I had the name, I found the docs. The file is updated one per second, the web page is live.

http://pi/dump1090-fa/data/aircraft.json


I conveniently have an address defined in hosts for "pi", otherwise you could plug in an IP address.

https://github.com/mutability/dump10...README-json.md

Now that I am looking in the right places, I see lots of code already working.

I live in a valley, which I hadn't really considered until I ran the https://www.heywhatsthat.com/ up in the air analysis.
I get good views in directions I didn't expect, and I really just want a picture of where I have the best coverage, by plotting onto a Google Map, maybe overlaying onto the "up in the air" lines.
I might have stumbled onto what I want, already written.

Thanks for the file name. Whole new paths to explore.

[ClarDold]

https://forum.flightradar24.com/thre...ll=1#post97748

Thanks. That one is just peachy. Lots of screenshots that I didn't need, and the command line that I like
telnet 10.51.25.212 30003

And a link to the documentation, user provided:
http://woodair.net/sbs/Article/Bareb...ocket_Data.htm

I have written programs to take in data across a telnet port, so this looks quite handy.

-- Clarence

[wiedehopf]

/dump1090-fa/data/aircraft.json

you'll have to parse it appropriately.

[Oblivian]

VRS has a database logger

There is a manual method

https://forum.flightradar24.com/thre...ll=1#post97748

And there are other 30003 capture scripts that can use SQL

But none are as easy as saving the text as far as I'm aware

[ClarDold]

I have a PiAware image installation, also running FR24feed.

I notice that FR24 provides a list that I would like to be able to grab as text.
http://localhost:8754/tracked.html

FR24 Feeder Tracked Aircraft List
Updated: 17:52:01 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
ModeS: 71BE24 Callsign: KAL213
Lat: 37.7249
Long: -123.7923
Alt: 34975ft
SQW: 1455

ModeS: A28904 Callsign: UAL1451
Lat: 37.8682
Long: -122.6399
Alt: 13400ft
SQW: 6646

I'd like to grab that sort of info as a text output, but "curl" doesn't catch it.

function update_aircraft() {
$.ajax({url:'/flights.json?time=' + $.now(), dataType:'json', type:'get', data: $.now() }).done(function(data){update_aircraft_cb(data);}) ;
}


Is there a command line I could use to grab the data from dump1090-fa?