dump1090-mutability v1.14 enhancements

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Hi,

A couple weeks ago I had posted an item on how to tweak the flightaware version of dump1090 to enable the following features:

  • Hover with the mouse over a plane icon to display all available flight information, such as position, altitude, speed, direction, distance, etc.
  • Planes colored by altitude. Each color is referring to a specific altitude zone.
  • Added a map legend which tells what color is which altitude zone.

It was not really perfect. It only works with metric values.

Shortly after that I started to use the mutability version of dump1090. And now I have added the above mentioned enhancements to the dump1090-mutability. I use version dump1090-mutability (1.14). Here is how it looks like:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17865731/dump1090-mutability.20150811/Screenshot%20from%202015-08-11%2021%3A13%3A19.png

I have added an section to the /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html/config.js where you can change the settings:


// -- Display aircrafts in color depending on their altitude
Display_Altitude_In_Color = true; // true or false
// Number of altitude zones displayed
NumberOfAltitudeZones = 24;
// Maximum altitude in meters of feet (depending on 'Metric' setting).
MaxAltitude = 11999;

In this file you can also configure:

  • your latitude/longitude position of your antenna.
  • whether you want to use Metric values.
  • the distance circles.
  • the title name of your dump1090 webpage.

To use my tweaks take the following staps:

  • backup the *.js, ***.html **en *.css files in /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html directory.
  • download the new files from my dropbox.
  • reload your browser.
    (In case anything goes wrong: Just copy the backup files to the original directory.)

Down here I will explain the installation (a bit of a big word of it) step by step:

  1. create a backup directory:

pi@ted1090-4 ~ $ cd /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html/
pi@ted1090-4 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo mkdir backup
  1. Copy the *.js, ***.html **en *.css files in /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html to the backup directory:

pi@ted1090-4 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo cp *.js backup/
pi@ted1090-4 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo cp *.html backup/
pi@ted1090-4 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo cp *.css backup/
  1. Check if your backupfiles are created succesfully:

pi@ted1090-4 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ ls -l backup/
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1692 Aug 11 21:19 config.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10375 Aug 11 21:19 gmap.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15742 Aug 11 21:19 planeObject.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31251 Aug 11 21:19 script.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1920 Aug 11 21:19 style.css
  1. Download the new files from my dropbox (you can copy/past all lines at once to the commandline in the /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html directory):

sudo wget -O colored_altitude_zones.js https://www.dropbox.com/s/ut23yc8q4h3w2ey/colored_altitude_zones.js?dl=0
sudo wget -O config.js https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1br3tb2mw1ktut/config.js?dl=0
sudo wget -O gmap.html https://www.dropbox.com/s/izbluia1vjw549g/gmap.html?dl=0
sudo wget -O planeObject.js https://www.dropbox.com/s/2yk9d40v85yevhx/planeObject.js?dl=0
sudo wget -O script.js https://www.dropbox.com/s/2aqdmrag1sy8psp/script.js?dl=0
sudo wget -O style.css https://www.dropbox.com/s/olisbfsvu9evwxs/style.css?dl=0
  1. Check if all files are downloaded succesfully:

pi@ted1090-1 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ ls -l *.css *.html *.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1464 Aug 11 20:45 colored_altitude_zones.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1963 Aug 11 20:46 config.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10496 Aug 11 20:46 gmap.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17940 Aug 11 21:12 planeObject.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31455 Aug 11 20:47 script.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2094 Aug 11 20:48 style.css
  1. Edit your config.js file with your own settings:

pi@ted1090-1 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo nano config.js
  1. Refresh your browser (twice):** ](http://)/dump1090**
    Now you should see colored planes!

I hope you like it :wink:

Something went wrong? Just copy the backup files back:


pi@ted1090-1 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo cp backup/* .

And refresh your browser (twice). It should work again like before.

Are you curious what changes I have made to the files? Compare the backup files with the new files. For example:


pi@ted1090-1 /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html $ sudo diff planeObject.js backup/planeObject.js

Ted
flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/ … stats-6731

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GREAT!
Thanks.