Any way to check on specific flights?

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I’m using the dump1090-fa .deb install on a raspberry pi.

In /run/dump1090-fa there are several history files. Is there a way to easily parse these files to look for a specific tail number? I’ve been adjusting my gain settings lately and want to make sure I am able to pick up the helicopter flights near me. They fly at erratic times, so I can’t monitor the GUI at a specific time to check.

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They are json files. It’s not hard to parse them.
Look at the webinterface javascript (script.js, planeObject.js) for reference how to parse them.

Anyway this might fit your problem:
GitHub - wiedehopf/timelapse1090: timelapse web interface for dump1090-fa (using the map interface from dump1090-fa as base)

You can set an altitude filter and play at high speeds.
That should make it reasonable easy to find the helicopters.

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Thanks for the reply. Your program looks interesting but doesn’t seem to work on my machine. I’ll keep messing with it and check out the javascript files you mentioned.

Thanks!

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Anything more specific?

I’d like to try and fix it.
Does it show the website under /timelapse ?

What is the output for:
sudo journalctl --no-pager -u timelapse1090

Or was there a problem with the install?

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It does work under /timelapse, thank you.

Just looks like a change needs to be made to the readme on GitHub. As of right now, it directs users to /timelapse1090, which gives a 404 error.

No problem with the install as far as I can tell!

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Oh, that’s helpful thank you :slight_smile:
I’ll fix it!

Edit: Fixed!

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