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I use flightaware and similar apps, but they all eventually want a subscription. Bleugh.
Is this one totally free ... or at least better than your average app?
If you have a little technical skill, you can set up your own raspberry pi ads-b receiver really easily. Just need the raspi, and SDR dongle, and an antenna. Floghtaware provides a flash image for the OS. If you feed them data, you get a free premium subscription. I used to use it to get alerts when the state patrol speed trap aircraft were taking off so I knew not to speed on a long interstate commute.
Thanks. I'm sorry it's yet another science project, though.
I'm plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I'm tapped out!
Hey when did I comment this
Totally get it. My SD card got corrupted in a power outage almost a year ago and I never got around to reflashing it. To many other irons in the fire.
I must say, it was an impressively reliable setup, uptime was effectively limited by power outages. Their image is basically Raspbian which is basically debian, but I was still impressed that the service was so stable.