Without being on my local network, is there a know the number of planes my rig is seeing “right now”? I am really not interested in the flight details. Really all I want is the total number the rig is currently seeing.
I know I can go to the LIVE view and count the list of planes to the right of the map, but I am wanting the info from any web browser.
If I go to my stats page I see:
Recent flights with positions from this feeder on FlightAware.com and
Additional recent flights fed to FlightAware
but, these entries don’t correlate with the LIVE view.
OK. I can write a web scraper script to do that from inside my network if that’s the only way. I don’t want to open a PORT to the world for the RasPI running piaware.
So… same question. If there a number that totals it all up for me and where do I find it? Or do I need to count each plane myself?
The math is easy, but the script is more involved if I need to pull the ‘current plane count’ number out one by one.
I’d suggest grabbing it from the json files that underlie the map: if you retrieve data/aircraft.json, that is a json object with all the current aircraft data; you can count them fairly simply according to whatever rules you want.
