How to add Area Coverage Rings and Antenna Coverage to map?

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I’ve seen some nice screen shots of users coverage maps with a set of distance rings and others with a shaded area (jagged shaped that I assume shows their antenna coverage area)

How does one go about adding these (in a very basic answer as I’m not a coder) to the Pi?

I am guessing I have to find the code.

Connect the Pi to a monitor and then under the DOS prompt, sorry don’t know what else to call that, type in these EASY commands?

I could never seem to be able to copy/paste any of the previous commands so maybe I’m doing a LOT wrong but typing three pages of code 100% accurately is going to be difficult for me at least so looking and hoping for an easy answer.

Also, I never see the two combined on the same user area map. Are the mutually exclusive from one another?

Others have colored airplanes and that also seems like a nice feature but once again. I don’t know how to add that feature.

Any ideas?

Let’s see your coverage maps!!!

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The rings and colored airplanes are by using dump1090-mutability. You may be able to add it to the stock dump1090, but it would be easier to change over to mutability. Search on the forum for the dump1090-mutability thread.

3

Take a look at this thread. Both the FlightAware version of Dump1090 and Dump1090-mutability versions can be modified.

http://discussions.flightaware.com/ads-b-flight-tracking-f21/how-to-get-alternating-blue-red-circles-in-dump1090-t20403.html

Here is a shot of my modified page when I was running the Flightaware SD card image of Piaware.

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As for antenna coverage. I like the image produced by PlaneFinder, which I am also feeding.

…Tom

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4

Exactly what I was looking for is in your maps!!!

Can you not have the two features at the same time?

I’ll have to read this tonight when I get back from work.

5

The second image above is from my stats page on the PlaneFinder website, not one I produced myself, though it was my data. :slight_smile:
…Tom

6

You also could set up a VirtualRadar server and connect it to dump1090. Then you have a lot of more features. But I did not see VRS on raspberry yet.

7

The latest version of modesmixer2 now plots receiver range on the map, a histogram of received ranges and a polar plot. There are quite a few versions for different hardware types including raspberry pi.

8

I run VRS on my pc and load from 2 Rpis - it’s just a matter of configuring the feed.

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Can one feed plans finder.net at the same time as they feed flight aware?

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Yes, many people feed more than one site. For instance, I’m feeding FlightAware, PlaneFinder and FR24 all from the same Pi. The actual data source is the same for all 3: a single instance of dump1090-mutability. You just need to add the clients for the different sites and configure them to take their input from the existing dump1090 or dump1090-mutability.

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Stock PiAware has the ability to add coverage rings. The code is there but not active. Currently, I do not have access to the Pi to report exactly what was done.

12

Only one file needs to be changed - /usr/share/dump1090/public_html/config.js.

  1. Line 14 CONST_CENTERLAT; replace default latitude with actual.
  2. Line 15 CONST_CENTERLON; replace default longitude with actual.
  3. Line 25 SiteShow; change false to true.
  4. Line 27 SiteLat; replace default latitude with actual.
  5. Line 28 SiteLon; replace default longitude with actual.
  6. Line 30 SiteCircles; (if not true change to true).
  7. Line 32 SiteCirclesDistance; can be changed if desired such as (50,100,150,200,250)

I hope that this helps.

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dump1090-mutability:
How to change the clock “Last Update” to show “Local Time” on gmap.html page.

Step-1: Open script.js for Editing


cd /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html
sudo nano script.js

This will open in nano, the file script.js for editing.

Step-2: Press Ctrl+w and type the search keyword getUTC, and press Enter.
The cursor will jump to first getUTC in the following code:

if (ReceiverClock) {
var rcv = new Date(now * 1000);
ReceiverClock.render(rcv.getUTCHours(),rcv.getUTCMinutes(),rcv.getUTCSeconds());
}

comment out these 4 lines of code (i.e. type // at the start of each line) . It will look like following:

// if (ReceiverClock) {
// var rcv = new Date(now * 1000);
//ReceiverClock.render(rcv.getUTCHours(),rcv.getUTCMinutes(),rcv.getUTCSeconds());
// }

STEP-3: Press Ctrl+w and type keyword ticking and press Enter.
Cursor will jump to word ticking of following code:

// disable ticking on the receiver clock, we will update it ourselves
ReceiverClock.tick = (function(){})

comment out the 2nd line of code (i.e. type // at the start of the line) . It will look like following:

*// disable ticking on the receiver clock, we will update it ourselves
//ReceiverClock.tick = (function(){})
*

Step-4: Save the file (Ctrl+o) then exit (Ctrl+x).

Step-5: Change the Title of top-right clock from “Last Update” to “Local Time”.

Open gmap.html to edit.



cd /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html
sudo nano gmap.html

This will open in nano, the file gmap.html for editing.

Press Ctrl+w and type keyword Last Update, and press Enter.
The cursor will jump to the following line:

Last Update

Change Last Update to Local Time.

The line in gmap.html will become:

Local Time

Now save (Ctrl+o) and exit (Ctrl+x).

Step-6: Reboot RPi.

Step-7: After RPi has rebooted, reload page gmap.html.

14

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http://62.251.100.171:1090/
https://nl3ehv.nl/graphs.php
http://62.251.100.171:8888/status.html

(The RPIMonotor is very easy to install)
https://xavierberger.github.io/RPi-Monitor-docs/11_installation.html