Get information from FlightFeeder to be used elswhere?

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Since the FlightFeeder which i got has disabled SSH (and i don’t want to hack sd card to enable it)

I’m wondering if there is a way to grub data from feeder so that i can use it elswhere? For example, i have Info dashboard where i preview weather station, surveillance camera data and some other social media data so i would like to preview feeder data but, only the data which i get through FlightFeeder…

Is that possible anyhow?

Where can i find more about inner application which grubs data and previews it for web interface???

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You can get the raw data on the same ports that a PiAware sdcard image would provide: 30005 for Beast-format off-the-air messages, 30105 for Beast-format multilateration positions, etc. See flightaware.com/adsb/flightfeeder/ (“ADS-B/Mode-S Data Output” section)

Tools like VRS can handle those data formats.

3

I think that i didn’t understand you

All data i see is frequent ajax requests by browser and it fetches data for plane positions in json format

Could you be more specific? Bit more practical?

4

The web map pulls aircraft data in a json format, yes. You could use that if you want (but the format changes from release to release)

You can get the raw Mode S data by connecting to TCP port 30005 on the FlightFeeder. You will need software that knows how to interpret Mode S data, such as VRS.

Not sure how else I can explain it. What are you trying to do with the data?

5

I want to write small plugin for freeboard so that you can hookup your flightfeeder to a board

See more at freeboard.io

It’s opensource…

btw, i 30005 is not enabled here, i use feeder which i got from FlightAware…

6

Possibly because of the older software version, you may need to wait for the software upgrade to be available to get all the local data feeds.

7

It might be simplest to integrate with the json aircraft / stats interface for that, if you just want to monitor something like current aircraft count. Again some of this is only available in the latest version.

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I’m not sure if this works for mlat, but this is what I’m doing to feed to adsbexchange.com and seems to work for adsb at least:


#!/bin/sh
while true
  do
    /usr/bin/nc -d adsb.loc 30005 | /usr/bin/nc feed.adsbexchange.com 30005
    sleep 30
  done

adsb.loc = my flight feeder
feed.adsbexchange.com = the site I’m feeding to

It looks like all it does is take the data from the flight feeder and pipe it straight to the feed port of adsbexchange. When I initially started the script I saw the planes pop up on the site right away. Kinda neat to know I’m the only one feeding for my area.

Edit: Oh just caught that port 30005 is not open for you. That’s strange, yeah not sure then. Maybe it’s just another port? Try doing a full port scan.
I imagine this method may work for other sites too.