This small program slurps the data from aircraft.json as produced by tedsluis/dump1090 which is a Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices.
Data is published to the MQTT topic ot/flights/<flightnumber> in OwnTracks-compatible JSON:
{
"tst": 1474648272,
"cog": 134,
"lon": 6.658383,
"_type": "location",
"flight": "KLM1963",
"roc": 0,
"lat": 51.381042,
"_geoprec": 2,
"alt": 10058,
"vel": 877,
"name": "KLM1963"
}- Start from this. If you get stuck, read this long English page
- Instead of the dump1090 git repo he recommends, use tedsluis-dump1090
I bought this dongle and simply plugged it in.
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/no-rtl.conf
blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
blacklist rtl2832
blacklist rtl2830
$ ./dump1090 --interactive --metric --net --net-beast --net-bind-address 0.0.0.0 --write-json /tmp/air/ --json-location-accuracy 2
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