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Customizing Web Interface

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
#1

Greetings All,

Just got my PIAware box up and running and works like a charm. I’m planning on setting it up at the local airport (Simsbury Airport - 4B9) and we are going to set up a little wall mounted monitor that displays updated radar, weather forecast and then the ADS-B map generated from the PIAware box. My question is - is there any way to customize the look/feel information displayed on that webpage coming from the PIAware box? I see there’s a (non functional) settings button. I would imagine there has to be a way to change the styling layout in some manner…right?

#2

If you dig around a bit on the Pi it’s all static HTML/JS. I’m not sure exactly where the flightaware image puts it but look for gmap.html. The aircraft data is the only dynamic bit retrieved via AJAX.

#3

Thanks for the point in the right direction - in case anyone else is looking for it, it can be found here: /\usr\share\dump1090\public_html\

You’ll need something that reads linux file systems (DiskInternals Linux Reader works well and is free) - be forewarned, if you search for gmap.html - it won’t show up for whatever reason shrugs. You actually have to navigate to the above directory. I’ll let everyone know how the editing goes.

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#4

You might find that obj’s dump1090-mutability already has significant improvements over the FlightAware-supplied dump1090, both in functionality and web page design. See http://discussions.flightaware.com/ads-b-flight-tracking-f21/raspbian-ubuntu-packages-for-dump1090-mutability-available-t19619.html for details. Perhaps you could make this your starting point. With this, the gmap.html file is here: /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html/gmap.html

#5

Or on github here: github.com/mutability/dump1090/ … ublic_html
However be aware that it won’t work out-of-the-box with a FlightAware dump1090 as dump1090-mutability’s json output looks a bit different.