View Planes feed in AIS-catcher Web Viewer

[jvde-github]

Added experimental option to view an ADSB feed from dump1090 or readsb on the AIS-catcher map. For this you need a beast or raw data stream available.

For testing, simply add to your command line a receiver for beast input

-t beast <ip-address> <port>     (e.g. -t beast 127.0.0.1 30005)

If you have a lot of ground traffic, you might want to add (-Z <lat> <lon>) after this to enable decoding of ADSB ground position reports.
Similarly, if you have raw input (e.g. binary messages in text format starting with * ending with ; ), then use raw1090 instead of beast in the above.

Further improvements in stability, quality and features are work in progress, but feedback welcome!

[prez02]

Cute, little red planes everywhere, but the boats are gone. Is that intentional?

I added the line -t beast with the IP of a existing dump1090fa feeder with a rtlsdr.

The receiving AIS-catcher uses an airspy to receive the ais messages.

[jvde-github]

Ok, so, could reproduce the issue with rebooting the PI: after that the connection is not re-established. Thanks for helping to identify.

The root cause was simple, there was an option to keep the connection alive but this needs to be switched on. I have now done that by default and reduced the check time. Now, the program detects it needs to reconnect 30 seconds after connection has become stale. Fix uploaded.

[prez02]

Can confirm, reconnect works:

TCP (192.168.178.114:30005) receive error with recv returns -1. Error code: 110 (Connection timed out). Reconnect.

Did the plane labels always have a little flag? Like the orange colour.... 👍

[jvde-github]

Great. Planes should have flags just like ships, except when we cannot derive it from the ICAO

[jvde-github]

ps if you see planes from AIS signals, they will be the original red.

[prez02]

well, I am not close enough to the sea, to see that happen : )
Although I once did catch an ais aircraft, a company around here apparently bought decomissioned planes from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and one of them was still sending the old AIS signal.
Edit: https://www.aironline.nl/weblog/2022/02/01/eerste-nederlandse-dornier-328-voor-nl-easp-air-landt-op-schiphol/

[flygfantast]

Nice, running it now with 3 feeders feeding data !

[jvde-github]

Stress testing it :-)

[jvde-github]

Nice, running it now with 3 feeders feeding data !

Let me know if you have any feedback

[flygfantast]

Stress testing it I don’t really know, 40+ aircraft is like the most I have at the same time. :-(

2 things thats s bit annoying:

• the flickering when the map refreshes
• When no category is available yet, it just shows you the label and no icon, yet you can choose the plan but it results in a orange circle thats just empty. Maybe have a default aircraft icon instead of none would be better

IMG_0359.mov

[jvde-github]

The first issue has been resolved, it was a bug also added some more data to the plane card. They are in the latest Windows Edge release.
The flickering I will see if I can make a bit smoother. Thanks!