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readsb and tar1090: globe index and saving history using traces

wiedehopf edited this page Mar 15, 2020 · 1 revision

My readsb dev branch together with nginx and tar1090 allows to save traces. Those only contain altitude and positions.

See the history tab when selecting an aircraft on adsbexchange: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/

But it's not completely foolproof to configure and for the foreseeable future only holds altitude/positions information.

I'd strongly suggest setting up a secondary readsb service that's net-only and get's it's data via network

The relevant command line options:

--net-only --net-connector localhost,30005,beast_in --write-json-globe-index --write-globe-history /var/globe_history

The directory needs to be created and the ownership given to the user the service runs as. tar1090 needs to be configured to use the data from the appropriate /run directory (see multiple instances tar1090). If nginx is installed, tar1090 will advise which conifguration file to include.

Now you'll have to figure the rest out yourself, as i said i'm not prepared to support this for everyone. It's only for people who can read all the relevant help pages and --help outputs from readsb.

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