Project status as of August 2nd, 2024.

[jprochazka]

adsbreceiver.net

I found a copy of the site from awhile back and have published the contents once again to the Internet. I was hoping I could make life easier by setting the site up on Hostwinds instead of spinning up and maintaining a virtual machine on AWS once again. I am still trying to figure out if the free SSL certificate promised when signing up is an actual SSL certificate or in fact a self-signed certificate. After spending some time going through cPanel and related documentation I gave up and will now give it some time. Maybe it is that slow to generate the promised free SSL? If in fact the free SSL offered is in fact a self-signed certificate, I will take the time to get the site up and running on AWS instead. In all honestly Hostwinds is not that much cheaper than an AWS hosted VM anyways just less maintenance.

Keep in mind that the site in its current form is quite dated. I will be working on getting things up to date soon. In the meantime, if you want to take a voyage through the wayback machine feel free to do so by visiting http://www.adsbreceiver.net.

The ADS-B Receiver Project

Work on ACARS support via ACARSDEC is about complete. I finished up a rough draft of the scripting needed to set up ACARSDEC along with ACARSSERV as well as modified the scripting making up the FlightAware Dump1090 and FlightAware Dump978 installers to ask for RTL-SDR device assignments no matter the order in which they are installed if needed. All that needs to be done is testing.

I also started to lay the groundwork to add ACARS support to the current PHP portal. Next on the TODO list will be to get the j-pole soldered and up in the air so I can begin to receive ACARS data so that I can get a good look at the SQLite database structure so I can finish laying out the page responsible for showing said data. If anyone has some sample SQLite data from ACARSSERV I would appreciate taking a look at it in order to wrap things up that much sooner.

Side note, I noticed some work being done on MQTT support and made sure to include the prerequisites needed by ACARSDEC when building the application. Not sure if it is actually in working order at this time but this would be a cool feature to utilize in the future. Support for MQTT is not documented but appears in the code base.

ACARS support will be made available in next release bumping the version to 2.8.6. When this release will be made available will depend on the weather and the time available to me this weekend which at the time of writing this includes a bit of lightning with the forecast tomorrow showing the same...

The ADS-B Portal

Work is being done in the form of system information supplied from the API. A lot of CPU, disk, sensor and network data will be made available shortly. I need to switch development from Windows to a Linux based OS in order to add and test Linux specific information. After doing so it will be a matter of updating the OpenAPI contract to document and test the new endpoints.

A couple new components were added to the Angular frontend such as account management and login functionality however these items still need to be integrated into the API. I also need to address cross database engine support in the backend. Switching to SQLAlchemy is still on the table but seems to be overkill although it might be necessary in order to keep things "clean".

Update

Hostwinds support was able to sort out the SSL issue today and the site has been brought up to date. The documentation which resided on the site has been placed in the project wiki and removed from the website in order to keep things more centralized.