Now I have retired I need a hobby!! So my wife tells me Although a win 7 user, I fancy building a Raspberry Pi system to provide data to the community. Reading between the lines contributing to flightaware gives me more data access than other orgs Are these sound conclusions? We live near an airfield and I want to collect information from planes taking off and whether they observe noise abatement by turning right at 800 feet. That implies I need to up the frequency of data capture from 1 minute, is that possible or will I be swamped with data? I have the same issue with overflights when planes are too low, and that requires more frequent data capture. Could I test things on win7 before buying a Raspberry Pi, say by using the MLAT client? Sorry for the newbie questions
Hi, I would highly recommend going for a Raspberyr Pi, It is really easy to install, very small and you can leave it up and running all the time. You will get direct live aircraft data from your reciever, about a message per second from each aircraft. Comparing with FlightAware, you have to know that FA does not share the combined data, you only have access to their website. On ADSBx you get live access to the combined data through the ADSBx API (https://www.adsbexchange.com/data/) Come and join the community. It's really cool in here Olivier
You can try first on Windows but as Olivier said Pi is recommended. I posted links to windows versions of mutability and mlat client. Read posts about feeding from windows and don't forget to install ntpd from Meinberg (described on this forum). Marcin
Install linux on your PC and live the life free of Windows ... but seriously Raspbian is Debian Linux. A Pi is the best way to feed.
