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[Rik]

I built a Raspberry Pi ADS-B Receiver and feed Flightaware

 

It's not that hard, coming from someone who does not write code, it works but it's really all down to your antenna which no one has commented on. Height, being in a plane will make this less critical but your still going to need an antenna of some sort and that's not a bad thing as what works the best only cost a few dollars to build.

 

You can buy the raspberry pi with the dongle for less than $50.00 but your going to need software such as the Flightaware, planefinder or others. Non affiliated software???? Possible but as I mentioned I'm not a programmer.

 

What your going to need in a plane however that I can see are:
 

Power inverted to convert the 12/28 V plane power to the 120V Pi requirement

 

Blue tooth adapter of some sort as the pi has no communication other than a HDMI port your going to have to configure some sort of communication port between the pi and a display screen and the screen does not have to be an Apple product, possible a tablet that runs Microsoft.

 

I have a USB wireless adapter that connects to a wireless router. That's not going to work in the plane but a Bluetooth adapter has to be available The pi comes with a standard 4 port USB in it and you can add more really easy.

 

Your not going to get every plane out there. Not even close as mine is located directly across from an airport, small private not a commercial one, and I never get any hits on the planes unless they have ADS-B Out!  Southwest airlines doesn't broadcast on ADS-B for the most part. Some of their new planes do but they still have a lot of older planes just to give you an example.

 

The Pi is lightweight, the power cables weigh more than it does which is good.

 

There are a lot of ways to modify the dump 1090 to show colors, distance rings  and such but those are based on a 192.168.**** I don't know how that will work in the air.

[Rik]

Read the link, it's basically all there but I don't know where you get the code for the micro sd card nor how the battery pack is powering the a/c

[22 others]

Raspberry Pi is DC powered. Memory says it's 5V.    You probably have a AC to DC wallwort powering yours.

 

The flightaware Pi only gets 1090 in signals. It's basically an airliner watcher.

 

What was remarkable about the linked project is that he managed to decode the weather and make it transfer to something useable on an Ipad in flight.

[Rik]

Raspberry Pi is DC powered. Memory says it's 5V.    You probably have a AC to DC wallwort powering yours.

 

The flightaware Pi only gets 1090 in signals. It's basically an airliner watcher.

 

What was remarkable about the linked project is that he managed to decode the weather and make it transfer to something useable on an Ipad in flight.

 

I noticed the weather too. I think this is great!! 

 

Obstacle to build one of these is very little so what the hell, lets all build one and try it.

[Yetti]

Ordered mine.  Skipped the velcro...  I mean doesn't everyone have several rolls laying around?

 

most power bricks are USB  Ie 5 volt.  So just plug it in and power it up

[mike_elliott]

Add an IMU to the project and you could be a Stratus killer.   https://www.pololu.com/product/2468

you need to eliminate the frequency shifting of the SDR, however..and that costs a few more $$ 

[Rik]

Is there anyway to.. (after reading the Reddit page and these comments) add:

 

GPS

Pressure Sensor

AHARS?

IMU

 

Then it will be a complete package

[MyNameIsNobody]

This thread is hilarious. Who says Engineers aren't funny? Oh ya, that was me. Retraction. This is priceless. Carry on.

[22 others]

Amazon delivered the parts Friday. Putting the pieces together took about five to ten minutes. Luckily our guy created an ISO image and posted it on Friday night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/3g7urb/the_11390_adsb_receiver_for_foreflight_or_pretty/

I downloaded the ISO image and put it on the SD card and inserted into the slot. Worked right away. It creates a wifi network just like the stratus.

I have a iPad mini 2 with built in gps and the free flightplan GO app.

I used it on a 400 mile trip this weekend. FIS-b Weather worked great so long as the antenna was near a window. Metars tafs and radar were all functional. No traffic showed for me though.

I'm looking forward to the revisions to add additional functionality, but can't complain. My fellow CBs might enjoy it.

[DonMuncy]

Does this device do the same job as a Stratus I or later.

[22 others]

Same idea. Less functionality so far. It's one programmer's garage project that is a work-in-progress and he has shared the open source program and instructions with us. I am hopeful that some smart guys will pitch in to help this project along. Maybe it'll gain a AHARS, WAAS GPS, 1090 recieve etc in the future.

 

Stratus 1 has a built in GPS. This doesn't (but my ipad does).  

Stratus 1 does TIS-B traffic.  This project supposedly sends TIS-B traffic to Foreflight.  For some reason, traffic didn't display with FlightPlan GO.

Stratus 1 does FIS-B weather. This does too.

[DonMuncy]

Thanks, You answered all the questions I'm not smart enough to ask.

[Rik]

The creator said he can add. GPS, AHARS, Pressure Sensor and everything that Stratus2 has for an additional $50 in parts... I ordered another Pi.. What the heck.

 

Do you have ForeFlight? Wondered if b/c you stated you used Flightplan GO instead and I don't know if Flightplan Go has traffic or?

[22 others]

Wouldn't that be great? $50 isn't bad for the additional functionality.

You're right, I don't have Foreflight.  The free alternatives have me satisfied for now.

[Yetti]

Things I learned today.

Planes can talk plane to plane.  I thought it was all rebroadcast from the ground.

1090 only may be missing some planes on 978. 1090 was kind of defined for big planes and 978 for small planes. The Stratus 2 receives both bands. Can't tell if the ground combines all and rebroadcasts both freq.  TIS stands for traffic.   FIS is for flight information service stuff weather and airport information.  There is even protocol for charts.

 

There is a 978 dump that could be used with another USB receiver to get the other planes transmitting on the same Raspberry PI box.  

 

Since I am more Android, it is possible that there is no need for the Raspberry PI could just plug the USB dongles into the USB ports on the tablet.

[Browncbr1]

i ordered the parts... $109 shipped... 

It seems there is a following, so I figure the guy will continue to provide update support with additional capabilities...  Will report back once I get it setup.  

[Rik]

Recieved my new Pi kit yesterday and installed the image file.

 

FF reads the signal but nothing is being received?? 

[22 others]

Nothing received?  In your living room on the ground or in the air?   I have to get a few thousand feet up before I get a strong enough signal where I live.

[Rik]

Driving down the freeway..

 

Was going to fly tomorrow and see if it worked in the air..

 

Anyone know what altitudes Startus 2s works at?

[peevee]

Exciting stuff. Hope he gets traffic working.

[M20F]

Anyone know what altitudes Startus 2s works at?

I start picking up about 200' AGL out of 06C but it takes awhile till you get enough data to display something (maybe 2-5 minutes).

[carusoam]

For comparison,

Driving I95... My skyradar can receive ADSB signals intermittently. Often going over tall bridges.

Expect to be a couple of hundred feet up for reception or really close to a broadcast antenna...

Best regards,

-a-

[gsxrpilot]

My airport sits at 325 ft. MSL. My Stratus2 usually doesn't pick anything up until I'm about 500 ft up from there.

[Rik]

It works!! Well for as much as it can work I guess.

 

I flew today and I was just practicing stalls, slow flight and steep turns around 3500' of the SF Bay and I could see on my IPad that I had a tower showing up on the screen. 

 

About 2,000' and there was no signal.. No weather as its clear but at least the system is picking up the weather signals.

[Yetti]

He needs to add the toggle between 1090 and 975.  The Noolelec device will do it.  They do it with the flightaware program.

 

I am trying to get it to work with droidefb.   Still trying, think I had it once.

 

Got the tuner to work with an old Acer Icona tablet plugged directly into the USB port.

 

Had a nice 900mhz cell phone antenna, did not make much difference.  So the stock antenna is fine.   Stock antenna not extended would be closer to 900mhz quarter wave.