Hi all --
A couple of years ago I set up a typical Raspberry Pi 3 running dump1090 and web server in an office, so that anyone could browse to the 192.161.x.x address and see the entertaining radar display.
Now I want to build another, but for a mobile group in the field to see passing aircraft. The key difference is that they aren't on any stable wifi network, so I'm trying to figure out how that should work. They would basically be running this out of a car.
My imagined setup is as follows:
I guess you need to set up Raspberry Pi to act as its own wifi access point so that the clients can connect to it? Isn't that correct? You can't just have a lone Pi accepting connections over the air without a hub/WAP, can you? How do you have the Pi act as the hub, and assign itself a web server IP address at the same time?
**But also, am I going about this in a needlessly convoluted way that has already been solved by something existing? Are there solutions out there where you can just set up an iPad or laptop to act as the data gathering and displaying terminal, all in one?
This is in a major metro area, I suppose at that point we could just browse to the Flightradar site and not bother with all this. But it seems more "real-time + reliable" to set up one's own data gathering, and you can customize how the display looks to your liking. (I am not fully convinced though, as you can tell.)
Thanks!
A couple of years ago I set up a typical Raspberry Pi 3 running dump1090 and web server in an office, so that anyone could browse to the 192.161.x.x address and see the entertaining radar display.
Now I want to build another, but for a mobile group in the field to see passing aircraft. The key difference is that they aren't on any stable wifi network, so I'm trying to figure out how that should work. They would basically be running this out of a car.
My imagined setup is as follows:
- Raspberry Pi + Flightaware stick + antenna, on cigarette lighter power, or generator
- Dump1090 gathering data, simple web server
- (possible cellular/wifi hotspot to get maps, but could be ok without map)
- Clients (within few feet) using iPad or iPhone to browse the served website
- Open to connecting via wifi / bluetooth, or if necessary, ethernet
I guess you need to set up Raspberry Pi to act as its own wifi access point so that the clients can connect to it? Isn't that correct? You can't just have a lone Pi accepting connections over the air without a hub/WAP, can you? How do you have the Pi act as the hub, and assign itself a web server IP address at the same time?
**But also, am I going about this in a needlessly convoluted way that has already been solved by something existing? Are there solutions out there where you can just set up an iPad or laptop to act as the data gathering and displaying terminal, all in one?
This is in a major metro area, I suppose at that point we could just browse to the Flightradar site and not bother with all this. But it seems more "real-time + reliable" to set up one's own data gathering, and you can customize how the display looks to your liking. (I am not fully convinced though, as you can tell.)
Thanks!
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