SkyWatch
On your display
Live radar of the planes over your home, with alerts for low passes and rare jets.
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- Does not run on 32×8 (TC001 & DIY) Made for 52×16 (TC002).
- Runs on 52×16 (TC002)
- Does not run on 32×8 with AWTRIX 3 (TC001 & DIY) Made for AWTRIX NG.
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Script description
The planes over your house, live on the clock. A green radar sweeps around your home and lights up every aircraft it passes; next to it the flight and where it is going, FRA→JFK. Press the middle button for the side view, where high jets pull contrails across a sky that follows the real sun, or for the card with the airline's tail colours, type, height, distance and speed.
The clock speaks up when something worth looking up flies by:
| Alert | When |
|---|---|
| Overflight | a plane passes closer and lower than you set (3 km, 3000 m) |
| Rare | A380, 747, Beluga, Antonov giants and military aircraft |
| Emergency | squawk 7700, 7600 or 7500 nearby |
| Watchlist | your callsigns, registrations or types, e.g. DLH400, D-ABYA |
An alert brings the app forward with that plane's card and its own short tune, and can read the flight aloud. While the display is off the clock stays quiet, unless you switch on Alerts when dark. Turn the knob to pick another plane, press it to refresh. Metric or aviation units, range up to 50 km.
Enter your latitude and longitude in the settings, that is all; no sound files needed. The positions come from adsb.lol, free and without an account.
Your own ADS-B receiver: SkyWatch also reads readsb, tar1090 and dump1090-fa directly. Put the address of its aircraft.json under Own receiver, e.g. pi.local/tar1090/data/aircraft.json, and the clock shows what your own antenna hears, with Refresh down to 5 seconds.
Flight data © adsb.lol contributors (ODbL), routes from adsbdb.com.
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Hi Mr. BlueForcer ;-) , nice work, really piece of art, I like it mostly with my local ADS-B feeder ... I did some tunning, really a pity we don't have REMIX option here ;-) If interested, https://github.com/shaarkys/AWTRIX-Hub-media/tree/main/SkyWatchV2 And maybe will do some more, it's just testing, as I discovered your script only recently ;-)
Ich hatte das Problem, dass mein fr24feed, der auf einem raspi läuft, keine Daten liefert, da fr24feed keine aircraft.json erzeugt. Und SkyWatch kann die RAW-Daten des fr24feed, die auf dem UDP-Port 30003 herauskommen nicht lesen. Lösung für den raspi: in der /etc/fr24feed.ini im Punkt "procargs" den Parameter "--write-json /var/www/html/" ergänzen. Dann schreibt dump1090 die aircraft.json dorthin. Als Adresse ist dann bei SkyWatch unter "Own Receiver" http://<IP des fr24feed>/aircraft.json einzutragen. Auf dem fr24feed muss allerdings ein lighthttp-server laufen. Sinnvoll auf einem raspi ist allerdings folgender Eintrag: "--write-json /tmp/" , um die SD-Karte zu schonen. Dann ist im Ordner /var/www/html/ ein symbolischer link auf /tmp/aircraft.json zu erstellen. Wobei der Ordner /tmp/ des raspi dann im RAM liegen muss. [CODE] #/etc/fstab #tmp tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,mode=1777 0 0 [/CODE] MfG Angie
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