ADS-B aircraft tracking with readsb and tar1090
Rex's AIO package ships readsb and the tar1090 map as a disabled service with a menu launcher; Intercept or a hand-built dump1090 are the alternatives.
What it takes
- Software only
- Purchase required
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
With the AIO's RTL-SDR (or any dongle) on a 1090 MHz antenna, readsb decodes ADS-B and tar1090 draws the aircraft map in a browser. In Rex's hackergadgets-uconsole-aio-board package the service is disabled by default; the menu entry runs a script that starts readsb, opens tar1090 and stops both when you close it, because the dongle cannot be shared with SDR++.
Alejandro's Intercept install gets ADS-B alongside its other decoders, and the same thread has REDROBRC's Trixie problem — neither dump1090-fa nor dump1090-mutability would install from apt — resolved with a FlightAware discussion link and a build script.
Links
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On Rex's images a single apt install gives you SDR++ for the AIO's RTL-SDR or a USB dongle; his AIO package adds the sdrpp-brown fork.
smittix's web front end wraps 433 MHz sensors, POCSAG/FLEX pagers, ADS-B, satellites and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanning in one page; Alejandro runs it on the AIO SDR.
Run a Meshtastic node on the console itself: meshtasticd drives the AIO's SX1262 over SPI, with the graphical MUI, the web UI or the Contact TUI client on top.
Two receivers, two recipes: the 4G card's GNSS via AT+CGPS on /dev/ttyUSB3, or the AIO's GPS on the serial port (/dev/ttyS0 CM4, /dev/ttyAMA0 CM5) at 9600 baud.
The AIO's PCF85063A keeps time off-grid once the right overlay is in config.txt — and on a CM5 the built-in fake RTC has to be switched off first.
MeshCore has no Linux-native node firmware, so the community built on pyMC_core: guax's YAMPA packet analyser and TUI chat client, and cwill747's GTK app.