View Planes feed in AIS-catcher Web Viewer

[jvde-github]

Added experimental option to view an ADSB feed from dump1090 or readsb on the AIS-catcher map. For this you need a beast or raw data stream available.

For testing, simply add to your command line a receiver for beast input

-t beast <ip-address> <port>     (e.g. -t beast 127.0.0.1 30005)

If you have a lot of ground traffic, you might want to add (-Z <lat> <lon>) after this to enable decoding of ADSB ground position reports.
Similarly, if you have raw input (e.g. binary messages in text format starting with * ending with ; ), then use raw1090 instead of beast in the above.

Further improvements in stability, quality and features are work in progress, but feedback welcome!

[prez02]

Cute, little red planes everywhere, but the boats are gone. Is that intentional?

I added the line -t beast with the IP of a existing dump1090fa feeder with a rtlsdr.

The receiving AIS-catcher uses an airspy to receive the ais messages.

[prez02]

Can confirm, reconnect works:

TCP (192.168.178.114:30005) receive error with recv returns -1. Error code: 110 (Connection timed out). Reconnect.

Did the plane labels always have a little flag? Like the orange colour.... 👍

[jvde-github]

Great. Planes should have flags just like ships, except when we cannot derive it from the ICAO

[jvde-github]

ps if you see planes from AIS signals, they will be the original red.

[prez02]

well, I am not close enough to the sea, to see that happen : )
Although I once did catch an ais aircraft, a company around here apparently bought decomissioned planes from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and one of them was still sending the old AIS signal.
Edit: https://www.aironline.nl/weblog/2022/02/01/eerste-nederlandse-dornier-328-voor-nl-easp-air-landt-op-schiphol/

[webkrab]

well, I a

The counties of planes can you get form the ICAO hex adresses, every country had a range.
https://www.aerotransport.org/html/ICAO_hex_decode.html

[flygfantast]

Nice, running it now with 3 feeders feeding data !

[jvde-github]

Stress testing it :-)

[jvde-github]

Nice, running it now with 3 feeders feeding data !

Let me know if you have any feedback

[flygfantast]

Stress testing it I don’t really know, 40+ aircraft is like the most I have at the same time. :-(

2 things thats s bit annoying:

• the flickering when the map refreshes
• When no category is available yet, it just shows you the label and no icon, yet you can choose the plan but it results in a orange circle thats just empty. Maybe have a default aircraft icon instead of none would be better

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[jvde-github]

The first issue has been resolved, it was a bug also added some more data to the plane card. They are in the latest Windows Edge release.
The flickering I will see if I can make a bit smoother. Thanks!

[jvde-github]

Added some code to filter out incorrect decodes. This should reduce the number of outliers on the screen.

[CaptainSteubing]

This is super handy.

Question, while I'm able to run either the standard AIS-Catcher and did from the early days, I ultimately chose AIS-Catcher-Control. Can this feature be added? Don't want lose the ease of the GUI by manually editing the JSON config file. Thanks!

BTW using the docker versions.

[jvde-github]

Did a quick experiment and I think we can add a switch for SBS/BEAST input and be backward compatible.

[CaptainSteubing]

That's fantastic news.

I'd prodded and poked to see if I could add it within the container (likely in the init stage). Catch-22 as would lose any changes on container restart unless I mapped the file via a volume mount to the host. But then that loses the ability to easily upgrade with a docker pull since any upgrades
to the file would not overwrite the volume mounted file.

[CaptainSteubing]

BTW, I appreciate your work on AIS-Catcher. I've been using it from the very beginning stages and have watched it develop over time. Thank you.

[jvde-github]

Project is a lot of fun, so thanks for sharing.

Once it is added you need to update the docker though as I need to update the code, so I am afraid you will have to restart and set up the setting files in a mapped volume once. Unless there is a trick to update the container without restarting (perhaps the service section allows that to install within the container) but I doubt that will work.

[CaptainSteubing]

Glad to know that it's fun for you. These "projects" that we do should always be fun.

Understood on the docker update (I usually check for updates weekly) and restart and setting up to a mapped volume.

Thanks!

[ascendingnode-gh]

This is great - I have a base station feed from dump1090 feeding planes and they’re showing up fine

I think I have something misconfigured though: planes never disappear after the signal is lost. The local airport looks like an aircraft graveyard with dozens of planes all piled up, and there’s a ring at around my maximum range of all the aircraft who’ve left the area floating static at the last position they were seen.

They persist until I restart AIS-catcher. Ships whose signals are lost disappear just fine.

Any pointers?

[jvde-github]

Ah cool. So, this might actually be an issue with a basestation stream that gets timestamped in a different way. Will investigate what is going on and fix.

Thanks for these pointers!!

[ascendingnode-gh]

I missed the color question before too:

All the airborne planes are red. Planes on the ground are gray.

Thanks again for looking into it, and for the rest of AIS-catcher - it's excellent!

[jvde-github]

One thing I saw was that the receive time was set on the basis of the timestamp in the basestation lines. This was incorrect and I fixed it. Can you check if the issue of missing timestamps is still there after updating to the latest?

[ascendingnode-gh]

Latest version looks good: planes which have flown out of range disappear after a reasonable time. I haven't specifically checked aircraft on the ground yet but expect they're fine.

Mouseover tips now include time of last message "Received 2m 16s ago"

I'd call it fixed. Thanks again

[jvde-github]

Thanks for raising and good insights to be able to quickly identify. Cheers Jasper

[caseyd]

I'm just starting in with this; what would be the JSON for configuring a BEAST feed from another machine on my local network. ( it's a PiAware build ) I see the "tcp":[] empty array definition, and I'm guessing that's where one would start.

Or a reference to supporting documentation would be great. I may well have missed it. I have a great veiw of SF's bay and have always wondered what the boats are. Kiddo and I are having fun exploring.

[bertonumber1]

@jvde-github Jasper this is excellent .
I went and installed the webui control to both my stations is there a way to make the adsb happen with the aiscatcher control without losing the functionality of editing the json files via http?

Many Thanks

Rab (adsbgreenock)

[jvde-github]

Thanks Rab. I need to rewrite the GUI quite drastically to deal with multiple receivers. It is on the list, but just not did find the time to do it. Perhaps I can come up with a quick hack to do it in the coming days. Will let you know.