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[โ€“] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hey when did I comment this

[โ€“] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.