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This project provides an interface between Silent Wings and the data on the Open Glider Network

This repo contains the PHP interface

There are another repo containing the data gathering from the OGN APRS server and the repo is called SWiface

The basic system has two components, one the "fixes collector", where you specify the area that you want to collect fixes from the APRS server and stores them on a SQLITE3 database, the other component is the interface itself, it is just a set of scripts PHP style, that follows the specifications of the Silent Wings interface and gather the data from the built SQLITE3 database. Currently the whole system is running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a HDD/SDD of 128 Gb. The RPi3 is running Apache2 to serve the interface. The interface is working with the Silent Wings Viewer Version 10, the Silent Wings Studio version 1 and it accepts tasks in the SeeYou formats: .CUC and .CUCX, as well as to gather the pilot and task data from SGP server. The Silent Wings studio is the tool used in the Sailplane Grand Prix (SGP) events to broadcast the competition. In the past those events were using the Yellow Bricks or vPos trackers, now we plan to use the FLARM/OGN devices to track the positions thru the OGN. The interface also provides the feed for the SGP real time scoring. The interface has a facility to build on the fly a competition, with all the gliders flying on the defined competition area, without the need of define the task and pilots in SeeYou, that allows to just follow all the gliders, similar to live.glidernet.org but with the potent Silent Wings viewer. You need need to install the Silent Wings viewer and the scenarios from www.silentwings.no We will do the final test of the interface at the QSGP in La Cerdanya at the month of April http://www.sgp.aero and if it is successful, will be used in some other QSGP and in the SGP Final in Potchsroom, South Africa. The plan is to use the OGN for Live Tracking at those competitions and in the future for all kind of gliding championships. Please watch the competition in www.sgp.aero

Feel free to use the code for your local competition or just for real time tracking in 3D/virtual reality. Please report any bug or issues thru the GitHub tool. Please find attached some screen shots showing the power of Silents Wings. I would like to thank to Seb and Pawel for their great help. AC/.