175 nautical mile range? Not bad for an antenna in the attic!
To find out what your maximum range is at your location see What is the Maximum Range I can Get? which will tell you if you even need to put your antenna up higher.
Persistence does what the name suggests: makes the airplanes stay on the map even after youâre no longer receiving messages from them (because theyâve flown out of range or landed and shut everything down.)
You can click the gear icon to change your tar1090 settings to un-dim the map and change to a light theme if you want.
I had a similar setup in my previous location and achieved the same range.
It heavily depends how âsolidâ the attic is built. A wooden roof without lots of concrete doesnât really block a lot.
Not directly. This information is not transmitted in the messages. You will need something like Virtual Radar Server. This is pulling the missing information from an online database and show it additionally
There is also a way if the planefinder client is installed on the same machine, but thatâs officially not supported
thank you, in tar1090 the UI pulls picture of the airplane from the internet in the section on the left. Perhaps adding optional data from internet about destination airport could be pulled/selected as well.
or add a link as in the original Piware UI for the flight information.
this already is available to you, but is turned off by default. Edit the config file by: sudo nano /usr/local/share/tar1090/html/config.js
and search for //flightawareLinks = false; about 2/3 down the file. Remove the two back-slashes and set to true. Donât remove the semi-colon.
Save by Ctrl-O then Ctrl-X. Reload tar1090
Hope this helps.
Thank you for this tip. I did go and enabled those links in config.js per github instructions but I do not see any link when I select a plane. Perhaps I`m looking at wrong spot.
