It is mainly meant for viewing aircraft on tar1090 map on your Laptop without using a Pi, for example when traveling in a car.
It cannot feed sites like Flightaware, Flightradar24, Adsbexchange etc, as these provide feed clients only for Linux. However it can feed following sites which provide Windows based feed client also:
Have been using a pi for the json output (Read and display on a different PC) for some custom manipulation/queries for traffic centred on a airport for a while.
And liked the idea of helping someone use it on a pre setup windows device rather than roo much additional hardware/software.
Enter this dump1090 with tar.
Unfortunately didn’t realise the extra fields like reg/make/ascend+descend were inserted from readsb extra function instead. So fast turning into a more complex solution Afterall
Might have to bundle it into a VirtualBox diet pi install instead.
Out of box this build does support some basic net-only modes to capture from other software/sources like virtualradar or rtl1090 however.
There is an adsb.im image for Virtual box you can use via “import appliance”.
Virtualbox on windows seems to have USB passthrough at least for me that doesn’t hurt MLAT.
Funny enough I was looking at that come 1am after some midnight oil burning before bed.
My current test bed is raspian and using usb (or net from real antenna) and sending data back n forth between host. So yep can confirm it seems to handle UDB quite stable and poss a bit better than some virtualisation platforms.
In the use case mlat isn’t really going to be on the radar as it were. Focus will be more local tar map/separate json manipulation for display rather than the usual aggregators that need some more clicking.
Do need to be Able to serve some .php too however. So torn between vbox configuring or just wamp+dump/tar on the host since ill be teaching someone else to use it
