Scripted Stats

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I apologise if this has been asked a gazillion times, but my google foo appears not to be strong.

How do I obtain various stats from the FlightAware instance on my Pi? Specifically I’m looking for dump1090_total_ac_positions, dump1090_total_ac etc, that the web page brings up.

I’ve checked /run/dump1090-fa and /var/log without success, so assuming they’re called something else?

Any help would be appreciated to point me in the direction of these and current flights being tracked.

Kind Regards
Jason

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You can get stats from the json files generated by dump1090: dump1090/README-json.md at master · flightaware/dump1090 · GitHub

If you are looking at something to log and plot that data, then you could try graphs1090.

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You won’t find those exact numbers, they are piaware stats and not available locally i believe.

You checked in /run/dump1090-fa and didn’t find the current flights being tracked?
That’s strange.

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You can’t

the Piaware stats are calculated via different parameters not using all data you are sending.
I am also not aware of any script pulling this information from the website itself. Tried it several times using python etc. but wasn’t very successful so far.

I am simply copy&paste them from the stats page from time to time.
As the stats are available for the last 30 days you do not need to do that every day.

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I solved it… I think! and Created an LCD Dashboard that shows the stats in real-time along with total flights detected that day. I haven’t added in 978 support yet as that’s not used in Europe.

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Great work!

Just out of curiosity
Did you also try to change the order of the two filters, so Uputronics first and then the blue FA towards the antenna?

I am still unsure which order would show better results if any.

Jetvision does have a display also in their Airsquitter Receivers, but i have no idea how this is implemented:

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