Running your own Flightradar

This post will describe running your own Flightradar-like flight tracking website. My setup is based on Docker and a Client/Server setup.

requirements

For my setup you require the following things:

• server
  • Raspberry Pi (4)
  • ADS-B antenna
  • ADS-B USB Dongle
• client
  • (virtual) server

server

This device will capture all data and has the physical antenna connected which is required to receive the ADS-B data.

In my case there is a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4Gb memory and USB-NVMe for storage connected. The Pi has Ubuntu installed:

Install Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi | Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an open-source operating system for cross-platform development, there’s no better place to get started than with Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi

Ubuntu

After you have installed Ubuntu you need to connect via SSH and install docker with docker-compose:

sudo apt update 
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install docker docker-compose

Instructions for starting server can be found in the Git Repo:

adsb_feeder

adsb_feeder

git.1eo.euLeo

In this git Repo you can find instructions for running the server and the client, the client has following purposes:

• running website with tar1090 and map which shows the tracked aircrafts
• feeding data to flightaware
• feeding data to flightradar24
• feeding data to radarbox
• feeding data to adsbexchange