Important

adsb.one fusioned with airplanes.live. After that, the adsb.one API was shut down on 01 DEC 2025. I have decided to retire this TAK feeder rather than maintaining it and use the time to start writing a universal feeder which works with more ADSB data APIs, including paid ones. The new feeder is being developed as a plugin for Trakbridge.

tak-feeder-adsb-one

Feed ADSB data from adsb.one into your TAK server

(C) 2023 Stefan Gofferje

Licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or later.

Description

Configuration

The following values are supported and can be provided either as environment variables or through an .env-file.

Variable	Default	Purpose
REMOTE_SERVER_URL	empty	(mandatory) TAK server full URL, e.g. ssl://takserver:8089
REMOTE_SSL_USER_CERTIFICATE	empty	(mandatory for ssl) User certificate in PEM format
REMOTE_SSL_USER_KEY	empty	(mandatory for ssl) User certificate key file (xxx.key)
UPDATE_INTERVAL	2	(optional) Update intervall in seconds (min. 2)
COTDB	empty	(optional) Database of known aircraft COTs
COUNTRIESDB	empty	(optional) Country classifications
LOGCOT	false	(optional) Log created CoTs to the console
UUID	empty	(optional) Set feeder UID - if not set, the feeder will create one
GETMIL	false	(optional) Get all military aircraft
LAT	0	(mandatory if not getting military only) Point latitude
LON	0	(mandatory if not getting military only) Point longitude
RANGE	250	(mandatory if not getting military only) Range in nm (max. 250)
CALLSIGN	adsb.one	(optional) Callsign for heartbeat
MYCOT	a-f-G-U	(optional) CoT type for heartbeat

Note: At the moment, only SSL TCP connections are supported.

Certificates

These are the server-issued certificate and key files. Before using, the password needs to be removed from the key file with openssl rsa -in cert.key -out cert-nopw.key. OpenSSL will ask for the key password which usually is "atakatak".

Container use

First, get your certificate and key and copy them to a suitable folder which needs to be added as a volume to the container.

Image

The image is built for AMD64 and ARM64 and pushed to ghcr.io: ghcr.io/sgofferj/tak-feeder-adsb-one:latest

Docker

First, rename .env.example to .env and edit according to your needs
Create and start the container:

docker run -d --env-file .env -v <path-to-data-directory>:/data:ro --name tak-feeder-adsb-one --restart always ghcr.io/sgofferj/tak-feeder-adsb-one:latest

Docker compose

Here is an example for a docker-compose.yml file:

version: '2.0'

services:
  adsbone:
    image: ghcr.io/sgofferj/tak-feeder-adsb-one:latest
    restart: always
    networks:
      - default
    volumes:
      - <path to data-directory>:/data:ro
    environment:
      - REMOTE_SERVER_URL=ssl://tak-server:8089
      - REMOTE_SSL_USER_CERTIFICATE=/data/cert.pem
      - REMOTE_SSL_USER_KEY=/data/key.pem
      - COTDB=/data/cotdb_indexed.json
      - COUNTRIESDB=/data/countries.json
      - UPDATE_INTERVAL=2
      - LOGCOT=false
      - CALLSIGN=adsb.one
      - MYCOT=a-f-G-U
      - GETMIL=false
      - LAT=60.0
      - LON=24.0
      - CALLSIGN=adsb.one
      - MYCOT=a-f-G-U

networks:
  default: