I really enjoy following airplanes on flightradar24 app on my iPad. However, I am based in Benin, West-Africa en there's no coverage here. Flightradar24 is also not interested to promote coverage in Africa so no free data receiver set. No problem, I can acquire my own set.
However, we suffer regular powercuts, internet is slow (but sufficient to feed flight details), electricity expensive, and power supply unstable so we need UPS systems, etc in order not to get your electonic devices damaged (computers, routers, rechargers and so on).
This is not an ideal situation, but I would still like to give it a try! I read in the specifications of the branded Flightradar24 box "It connects directly to your router/modem by Ethernet cable. It doesn't need a PC to run ....". That sounds excellent to me since it is a light option: less power use and when there is a powercut a UPS system with battery can longer provide power to the radar system and modem and continue uploading information. In case of powerloss there is also no need to restart a PC.
I am not eligible for this (free) Flightradar24 box (although I could provide data for three busy international airports in Wet-Africa (Cotonou - Benin (0 km), Lome - Togo (125 km), Lagos - Nigeria (110 km, potentially Accra at 290km)), but I am curious to learn whether similar sets exist that are available on the market. So direct feeding trough ethernet cable to the modem and without a PC running. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated!
However, we suffer regular powercuts, internet is slow (but sufficient to feed flight details), electricity expensive, and power supply unstable so we need UPS systems, etc in order not to get your electonic devices damaged (computers, routers, rechargers and so on).
This is not an ideal situation, but I would still like to give it a try! I read in the specifications of the branded Flightradar24 box "It connects directly to your router/modem by Ethernet cable. It doesn't need a PC to run ....". That sounds excellent to me since it is a light option: less power use and when there is a powercut a UPS system with battery can longer provide power to the radar system and modem and continue uploading information. In case of powerloss there is also no need to restart a PC.
I am not eligible for this (free) Flightradar24 box (although I could provide data for three busy international airports in Wet-Africa (Cotonou - Benin (0 km), Lome - Togo (125 km), Lagos - Nigeria (110 km, potentially Accra at 290km)), but I am curious to learn whether similar sets exist that are available on the market. So direct feeding trough ethernet cable to the modem and without a PC running. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated!
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