ADSB bridge to traccar

flyjodel 8 years ago

Hi all,

as any of you found or found a way to read ADSB data coming from planes and putting them into the traccar database through Dump1090 ?
i've found this project : http://lee.smallbone.com/2014/03/ads-b_via_dvb-t/ (read the end of the article)
thank you
Michel

Luke williams 8 years ago

May I ask why you need to see aircraft data on Traccar? Surly the PI is doing what it should be doing with the software you installed.

Am I missing something?

abyss 8 years ago

It is interesting...
I believe the best way is to connect stock dump1090 port 30003 to traccar using ncat or something similar and implement SBS1 (BaseStation) protocol support in traccar.

jaimzj 8 years ago

This is interesting for sure, if it gets on the roadmap/ or development plan of traccar.

the ability to add aircrafts to traccar as well, similar to flightradar24.

good suggestion :)

Luke williams 8 years ago

will it do anything other than what the software on the PI is already doing? Other than plotting planes on the Traccar map, I know what the plotter does I have used it many times both on PC and PI, But cant get my head round the benefit of plotting planes on the same map as your devices?

abyss 8 years ago

I see next benefits

  • Blog post's author had to modify dump1090 code to store data in DB, traccar can do it out of a box with most all DB engines
  • Traccar web application can use not only google maps layers
  • Reports, it is possible to generate some reports related to aircraft

Also, as far as I know, traccar is used by some emergency services, may be they use helicopters, probably it is useful to know about nearby planes in their work. Just supposed use case.