Light up LEDs wired to Raspberry Pi's GPIO ports when flights are observed
Save flightled.py to /home/pi/ads-b/flightled.py.
Save flightled to /etc/init/flightled and symlink it with
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/flightled /etc/rc5.d/S01flightled to run on startup (optional).
Install and configure dump1090. It is assumed
to be running locally at localhost:30003, if remote edit SBS1_HOST and SBS1_PORT as needed.
Connect a green LED on pin #29 (GPIO 5), and red LED on pin #31 (GPIO 6). You can of course
use other output devices and pins, edit LED_G and LED_R as desired.
Start with sudo /etc/init.d/flightled start.
By default:
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The green LED will light when any flight with a callsign is observed
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The red LED will light when a callsign in
watchlist.txtis observed
for various lengths of time, edit flightled.py to configure. Logs
to /var/log/flightled.log by default.
Original article describing this software:
MIT