Just updated tar1090
On my Samsung tv
Information pop-up
URLSearchParams is not defined
Aircraft and data are static
I don’t use this but I thought it might be a data point for you.
Try again, curious if it’s a different error now.
No error message now. Planes still static. I notice that when I reload the page, I get an initial screen and then one update of that screen. All the numbers change slightly like they would for live data. Except the first screen shows 0 positions and the second shows a number i.e. 21226 positions. Data is static after that second screen.
I mean if it doesn’t understand javascript setInterval, the browser is hopeless.
Just install Firefox as proposed by someone here.
It works with Silk on Amazon FireTV 4K stick.
So maybe get one of those smart dongles (or other brands) to make the HDTV smarter…
Yesterday evening i fired up Opera Browser on my Sony TV.
dump1090 was working without issues.
Got a chance to try the latest update.
No difference.
I didn’t even see an error popup.
When the initial window loads and the planes show up, I noticed in the aircraft list the entire Type field isn’t populated, everything else is.
I have no idea how to install another browser on the thing, it has 2 app stores but neither have any browsers in them.
Since that seems to work for other TVs, its probably the way to go.
Thanks for the effort in trying to figure it all out.
Unfortunately not a Sony.
Those were supposed to be pretty smart TV’s… I was tempted, but now am glad that I got a Vizio instead.
Even if I have two Amazon TV dongles around the house, the quality of the software in the TV kind of paints a story.
And obviously not an Android TV officially supported by Google. Otherwise you would have the Play Store installed where you will find different browsers.
Suggestion:
Distance is shown in the table as column. Can we have this information as well in the left pane where the aircraft/flight details are shown and/or in the popup window which appears while hovering over the aircraft?
I’ve installed tar1090 and I thought that there was no track history available (only new tracks added once running in the browser) but turns out it was because I use apache on that machine so the gzip compressed JSON was just erroring out in the load process. To get it to work I had to add mod_headers to my enabled modules and add this to the vhost (only the Content-Encoding is actually needed as far as Chrome is concerned):
<LocationMatch "^/tar1090/chunks/(.*).gz$">
Header append Content-Encoding gzip
Header set Content-Type application/json
</LocationMatch>
Just thought I’d share that in case others run into the same issue.
Is there any chance we can get the long description of the aircraft vType (e.g. Sikorsky HH-60M Blackhawk) instead of / in addition to the icaoType in the left panel? If “Type” is moved down one space to the last line of the first block, the name could use both columns for more space. Here’s a quick mockup I did, text-align: center font-size: 12px
I find the database extremely inconsistent in that regard.
I guess i could put the long name in there if it’s in the type conversion database.
Edit: So html/db/aircraft_types/icao_aircraft_types.json doesn’t have a conversion to “long_name” and the long name in the database seems to be extremely variable which i really don’t like.
Where does the different flight information come from?
The flight is officially between TFS and FRA, but tar1090 shows ACE-HAM
original Skyview doesn’t show a route.
Edit: Radarbox also seem to have issues with the flight path. Only te departure airport is correct.
I have a weird problem, not necesarely related to this thread, but maybe it is…
I have upgraded my Ubuntu Linux and kept the installation of the web interface. The internal IP changed after upgrade.
If I am trying to access the web interface at the new IP, from my PC, it works fine - both the FA interface (at :8080) or the /tar1090 one.
If I am trying to access that from my phone (Firefox)… I see the right tab, but no maps, no planes.
If I am trying from the phone with Samsung browser, or Chrome, it works.
Tried to refresh the page in Firefox, normal and long press… nothing.
How do I fix this?
Re-check the address you entered, make sure there is a http:// in front of it.
It is with http:// in front.
I even redid the Linux installation and still the same… Chrome works. Firefox doesn’t.
Hi wiedehopf,
I have to say this is truly amazing and I am really enjoing your interface.
I have managed to add a few more custom layers to display geojson’s like for runways and waypoints. They are even selectable.
One thing, as i am particularly looking at traffic on the ground, I have noticed that some flights are not displayed even though they should have a ground position. I assume it has something to do with your ground speed filtering, which I did not manage to turn off or configure in a way that it would show the ground positions.
As you can see the flightaware interface shows multiple targets, whereas tar1090 only shows 1 target.
I have noticed that only departing aircraft are not displayed on the ground and it works fine for arriving aircraft. Does the first track point for a flight have to be an airborne message?
Hope you can help.
Thanks a lot,
Dennis
No. I’ve looked at ground planes quite a bit and for me it works just fine.
Is the datasource for both interfaces the same? (same dump1090-fa aircraft.json)
Or are you running a 2nd dump1090 without positions set (this would explain the departing aircraft behaviour, ground positions need a reference position)
Put an aircraft.json onto pastebin or shoot me a private message with a link to your interface.
Otherwise it’s only guessing at this point.
Thanks for the quick reply.
A sample json can be found here: pastebin
The flightaware screenshot is directly from a receiver near the airport.
The tar1090 screenshot is from a “net-only” Pi.
I am piping the beast outputs from the receiver near the airport to the local pi via ncat.
The local pi runs combine1090 and I think it is piping from port 30005 to 29004. I’ll try to add the location information to the combine1090 settings.
Regards,
Dennis