Alexa Airplane Spotter ✈️

Check out the blog post here: https://www.nicksypteras.com/projects/teaching-alexa-to-spot-airplanes

Requirements

• RTL-SDR Dongle and Dump1090
• MongoDB
• Node.js

Set Up For Local Use

1. Run Dump1090

   path/to/dump1090 --interactive --net

2. Start MongoDB

   mongod

3. Load the data into MongoDB

   python load_db.py

4. Add your coordinates to the settings.py file

5. Start the local server

   node server.js

6. Test it out! curl http://localhost:3000 to see the description of nearby airplane activity

Notes

When building the Alexa skill, you will need to upload the requests module to AWS Lambda along with lambda/lambda_helper.py. You can do this by installing requests into the lambda/ directory via pip install requests -t ./lambda, and then uploading the zipped directory.