Thank you, much appreciated!
@wiedehopf - thanks for adding the wind data display options. Seeing upper atmosphere winds on the map will be interesting when weather fronts pass by.
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Oh that’s nice - I see the option to enable them but don’t actually see any when I turn on the labels via O. Is it only carried in certain regions?
There is an option in the settings menu, it replaces the reg / type display.
Maybe i should make it just another setting to cycle through.
Yes ATC need to interrogate magn heading / true airspeed.
Magn. declination is looked up to convert to true heading.
True heading / true airspeed and ground track / ground speed are used to then calculate the wind.
Edit: i see the issue, you run dump1090-fa.
Maybe i’ll hide the option in that case.
While you can calculate winds in the js interface and it does actually do that for individual aircraft, not sure if i want to implement it for the labels …
I don’t think so - You talked me through switching to readsb a few months ago. That’s why I have a range plot on my map. You are looking at my main feeder, not the one in my loft?
/edit - Ahh, yes. I’ve found it, it does cycle through once enabled. Nice, thanks.
I didn’t look at your feeder at all … was just thinking of the most likely reason.
Yeah … changed it so you can always toggle through it.
The option now is just to change the style from only wind to wind + usual info.
Mine doesn’t show it. I have installed the latest tar1090. And I think I am using readsb.
Well it should at least show “Wind n/a” in the version i uploaded couple hours ago.
(when you cycle through the extended label options using o while the lables are on)
ATC in the US doesn’t interrogate true airspeed / magn. heading. thus wind speed can’t be calculated.
Well apparently Boston approach currently interrogates for it … but pretty much everywhere else it’s interrogated by all radars.
In Canada only Toronto approach interrogates for it.
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Thank you for explaining. I have updated and this is how it looks. I’m not near Boston 
I thought that true airspeed is transmitted via ADS-B without interrogations.
You need to cycle O one further.
It is not.
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That’s the third click, after that goes back to one row label.
Have you activated “slim wind labels”?
Those don’t show anything when there is no data.
Anyhow … it’s kinda pointless as i said there is zero data where you are.
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“Running the current version of tar1090”
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Needed a restart…
sudo systemctl restart tar1090
The version shown has nothing to do with the service, neither does the code of the webinterface.
Your image shows clearly you updated 7 days ago, not today.
Like I said above, it needed a manual reset of service. Didn’t use to need it.
When I was starting out with JavaScript 10 years ago, a friend recommended the O’Reilly book “JavaScript: The Good Parts”. Just the thing for an old dog ‘C’ programmer trapped in an object-orient world.
Hi all, i have upgraded and installed tar1090 today. Loving it so far. Nice upgrade from the skyaware i was using for the local front end. I am still using dump1090-fa and will move over to readsb in the next step.
A few questions on the tar1090 web interface. (Im not sure if anyone else sees this behaviour of just me).
- Setting the option “Group by Data Type” does not stay ticked when i refresh the page. Is this something i need to update on my side?
- The Colored Trails i cant seem to get working. I have ticked them on and off and the option doesn’t do anything for me. Would anyone happen to know how i could go about fixing this so i can turn on the trails like i had back on the SkyAware?
- Is there any issues with me running the piaware SD Card image and moving to readsb? Or should i be starting fresh?
- Moving to readsb MLAT will continue to work as it does now with dump1090-fa?
Thank you