Track Aircraft With Your Raspberry Pi Using The FlightAware Pro

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Have you ever seen a flight overhead and wondered where it is going? Or seen a unique-looking aircraft and wondered what type or model it was? Well, today I've got something exciting to share with the aviation enthusiasts out there. We're going to set up our own flight tracker using the FlightAware Pro USB stick and a Raspberry Pi.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Visit my blog for the project write-up - www.the-diy-life.com/track-ai...
Visit the FlighAware online store to buy a USB stick or kit - bit.ly/49RBjgY
PURCHASE LINKS
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Raspberry Pi 4 - amzn.to/43hxeQF
FlightAware Pro - bit.ly/3PjGtdc
Indoor Antenna - bit.ly/3VaUNbW
MicroSD Card - amzn.to/4bpTiw1
Pi 4 Power Supply - amzn.to/3Ti9zuO
Pi 4 Basic Heatsink - amzn.to/48M2QPy
Tool & Equipment Used:
Gweike Cloud CO2 Laser Cutter - bit.ly/3NayRZv
CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:58 PiAware Assembly
3:03 First Boot & Setup
3:58 FlightAware Web Interface
7:18 Final Thoughts
If you've got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you'd like to see, let me know in the comments section.

Пікірлер: 28

@MrTartans 3 ай бұрын

Dad was a pilot, he will love this.

@JeffGeerling 3 ай бұрын

I'd like to also test out plain old SDR and see some of the data coming in unfiltered. Could be cool to try programming my own little map too, mostly to see how ADS-B works. But I may try this project someday, as I love messing around with FlightAware already!

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

Programming your ADS-B decoder and mini map would be a really interesting project, and probably not all that difficult to do. I found this site to be quite an interesting read on decoding ADS-B and Mode S messages - mode-s.org/decode/misc/preface.html

@aaronag7876 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant project and something I've been looking for. Thanks

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

It's been a really fun project to put a spare Pi to use - apparently it'll run on a Pi Zero W or Zero 2 W as well which makes it quite inexpensive.

@EricOnYouTube 3 ай бұрын

Ok, I ordered the equipment and will hook it up when I get it.

@Bon3fish 2 ай бұрын

I set up Pi-Aware on a Zero 2 w and want to make it solar-powered. So far, it runs well during the day but doesn't make it through the night. I use the Solar Power Manager (B), Embedded 10000mAh Li-Po Battery from Waveshare, and Solar Panel (5.5V 6W).

@MichaelKlements 2 ай бұрын

I haven't measured the consumption of the Pi-aware stick but I'd imagine that this is relatively low compared to the Pi Zero 2. Just a rough look at your hardware - your Pi setup is probably using around 30Wh per day. Your Waveshare battery and controller can store 37Wh max so that's a bit close but still ok. Your solar panel probably provides about 20-30Wh per day best case which is also very close but should be ok if getting full sun each day. So either your panel is not outputting near it's rated 6W in full sun, leaving the waveshare battery semi-depleted when the sun sets or your Pi setup is drawing significantly more than it would at idle without the Pi-aware stick. It's probably worth measuring both of these things during the day.

@LayerbyLayerOfficial 3 ай бұрын

would love to see a video of this with a 3d printed enclosure and a dedicated screen if its possible

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

They do have an option for a compatible waveshare display on their standard disk image, I'll look into this.

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

Main issue with these sites is they censor stuff tbh

@EricOnYouTube 3 ай бұрын

How do you know?

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

@@EricOnKZfaq By watching the data from them I've seen them censor stuff

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

What sort of stuff would they be sensoring?

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

@@MichaelKlementsplanes when the owner requests it for various reasons they do it on request of the owner for example so that it doesn't show up on the site same for military stuff also which is the most neat stuff to track sometimes

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

Not sure what happened to my other comment earlier but figured id say again as I hit send too early anyway Nice video Not sure why mentioning airplanes live seems to delete my comment though haha

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

But if anyone wants they can throw a feed up to that site also just yt seems to delete links RIP ADSBexchange

@sativagirl1885 3 ай бұрын

random underwear bombers leave unidentified floating objects. please return to the smoking section and have a cigar!

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

@@sativagirl1885 ?

@robertsandy3794 3 ай бұрын

Is Flight Aware just a glorified SDR? What does it cost?

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

Yep it's a sdr Around 70 I'd go with the one from the airplanes . Live store personally if you are in the US or Canada

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean by "glorified" as they don't make it out to be anything other than an ADS-B receiver that they've put their branding onto, but yes it's essentially an SDR and costs $35-$40 from their web store depending on the model you get.

@BenCos2018 3 ай бұрын

@@MichaelKlementsah I saw a bad listing then sorry about that

@robertsandy3794 3 ай бұрын

Hi Michael, by glorified I meant that it's an SDR that has had its functionality reduced from an SDR that can do very "large" frequency range to one that does a very "narrow" frequency range specifically for the ADSB frequency. Just wonder if it can be hacked to increase the range

@MichaelKlements 3 ай бұрын

Yes it has a built in filter to target the 1090 MHz frequency as this improves its range at this frequency, it's purpose built as an ADS-B receiver rather than a generic SDR.