Plane✈/Sailing⛵
“Plane/Sailing” is the name given to my home aircraft and ship tracker. It receives ADS-B and AIS signals via antennas on my house, processes them to share with popular tracking websites, and displays the combined results on a website for the world to see.
If you’d like to see what I’m currently tracking, check out https://planesailing.ianrenton.com!
Build Guide
The links below are to the design & build information in case you are interested or would like to build a similar setup for yourself! All the software is open source, and all the hardware chosen to be as inexpensive as possible.
- System Architecture
- Antenna & Receiver Choices
- Raspberry Pis & Processing Software
- Web Front-End
- Bill of Materials
You may also want to check out this project’s predecessor, my first flight tracker.
what bout high end desktop computers? 8+ cpu systems should be able to do the work f way ore than raspPi computers right?
Oh, definitely. N7IPB here for example has four RTL-SDR dongles attached to a single PC in order to capture more ADS-B and AIS channels simultaneously. Even a modern Raspberry Pi 4 could cope with two at the same time - the only reason I use two separate RPis is because I wanted to use up the old models I had lying around.