Creating a Link containing home location on map

I'm sure my dad would like to follow the ADS-B traffic. He learned to fly in a stearman and soloed at 14 or maybe 15. He is currently 92 and his computer skills are not as good as they used to be. I am concerned he will not be able to navigate to his home area on the map. The default location when visited the webpage appears to be in the UK. I'm also not sure if he knows how to enable cookies to re-set and save the opening location . Is there a way the opening location can be specified by adding additional information to the web address

Thanks

 

I'd also like to be able to do this but have not found a way to do it. Anyone able to help?

 

Isn't what you're looking for under the General tab in the Menu? Click Set Current Location, drag the marker, and then uncheck Set Current location.

 

I've never found a way to make the change permanent. I have to reset the marker each time I log on. I've tried cut and pasting the current options and saving them to a file, and then reloading that file when I next log on. It works but it is hardly convenient.

 

Same here, I have not found an easy way to do this. It is usually easier to enter the location, drag the map to the location, when I start the page.

 

After you set the location click Menu | Shortcuts | Go to Current location. It should take you back to where you dragged the pin.

 

The problem is that VRS doesn't seem to remember settings next time you start it. If you are looking at a feed from ADSBx then everything is fine, but if you are looking at your own feed directly from port 30003 then the program doesn't remember where your 'Current Location' was the last time you used it.

I dislike VRS for several reasons - including it takes a lot of resources in my browser - so I've decided to write my own viewer in Python. See attached image:
It does most of the same things that VRS does and I've tried to maintain compatibility with VRS formats where possible. The range 'splat' for example uses the same json format, but you can overlay multiple splats to compare the coverage of different antennae or receiver configurations.

I'm not interested in 'spotting' aircraft but more in the technology challenge that ADSB presents. I do much of my experimentation with antennae and DSP (digital signal processing).

 

So this only resets the location when you're looking at your own local feed? Have you setup the Web Site Initial Settings in VRS? That's the only thing that I can think of. My location always sticks, even after restarting VRS.

 

I've been through all the initial set up in VRS. I'm using linux and Pale Moon browser but have tried others. As I say, I've now got an alternative that is more useful for my own purposes and doesn't try to display airline company banners and other unwanted data.

 

That is very cool!

 

Have you also found a way of keeping your map preferences from session to session? Every time I start up VRS I have to modify the List, Aircraft and Map settings to get the display how I want it. It would be useful if VRS could remember preferences and, better still, allow them to be easily copied from computer to computer. (I have 8 desktops and setting them all up is a proverbial pain.)

 

VRS uses a cookie, so sessions should stick unless you clear cookies.

There is configuration under Website - > initial settings in options ... that will let you set things like we do on the Global VRS UI so it will always load the same settings on initial load

 

James, I cannot find a way under Website -> Initial Settings to save the format of the List Settings, Aircraft Display, Aircraft Trails, Aircraft Details etc. Every time I restart VRS I have to laboriously go through the options menu on the map display to reconfigure it to display the data I want in the format I want. I've tried copying the Website->Initial Settings to a file and reloading it on the next restart, but that is hardly convenient or intuitive.

VRS is not saving cookies on my computer. I have checked and Pale Moon informs me that VRS does not save cookies.

Being a long-time linux programmer (having abandoned Windows in the mid-1990s), I am a great believer in simple configuration files using plain text that can be easily understood and, if necessary, manually edited or transferred to other computers. I consider JSON as plain text also. As I have already said, I'm using the browser less and less for my displays and so, for me, the problem is slowly going away. I mainly interested in my own feed but would find it useful if I could easily identify the feeds that border on to my own geographically. Unfortunately, the pins that identify the approximate location of MLAT feeds are often not named in a way that reflects the feed identity as displayed on the ADSBx feeds. This is quite understandable from a privacy point of view, but I would be quite happy to share my feeds to my 'neighbours' if they wished to receive them, and they are prepared to reciprocate. I'm not looking at a huge data slurp but simply a copy of AircraftList.json every 4-5 seconds or so. But I digress....

 

It's VRS. Nothing about VRS is convenient or intuitive. Dev is a windows guy and it shows. Next version of VRS is going to use the MSFT abandoned OWIN webserver .. so I fully expect things to never work right. I've tried to convince VRS dev to just create static files so people can use Apache or NGINX, but he's MSFT guy.

All we do is edit the json, paste it in the box for it, hit ok to save config .. and restart VRS.

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True that, very true.

 

@janrinok I've sent you a pm regarding this

Paul

 

Paul,
Here's the image: