(How To) Making an ADSB Receiver

[@andrumcmonigal1608]

Thanks for the tutorial, super easy to follow along with. Got my ancient Raspberry Pi model B set up and tracking aircraft in about 90 minutes!!

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Glad you got that puppy running Andru!

[@douglasglisson4612]

Bruh. You are da Man! I had my Pi Zero 2W flashed and working in a couple hours (I was taking my time to ensure I was doing it correctly and understanding each step) and I had never even SEEN a Pi before today. Thanks for the help. Now to get the AirBand stick working on it as well! I am liking the interface better than I had with RadarBox software on Win10.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Glad I could help!

[@RWBHere]

Wiedehopf is three syllables, if it's in High German, pronounced like Vee-de-hopf, and you pronounce both the p and f at the end.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Not being a speaker of the German language please forgive my ignorance of the pronunciation.

[@Tangcb]

Can I use Raspberry Pi Zero instead of Raspberry Pi 5?

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

I don't think it has enough horsepower to drive the web interface but the only way to know is for you to do it and find out.

[@nomadic.thoughts]

Thanks for a tutorial on this that actually works! This was so easy to follow. Do you have any suggestions on ways to expand on what you can do with a raspberry pi ADS-B receiver?

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Thanks! I have added a BME 680 sensor to most of mine to keep track of the ambient temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure. I feed that information to a MySQL Database. Fun fact - the day of the eruption in Tonga the pressure wave from the eruption was felt around the world and my Pi's with BME680 on them show the wave and spike then the lowering in pressure. I have also added a 2nd SDR to one of my ADS-B Pis to track the utility meter broadcasts of my home. That way I can keep track of power and gas usage on the same pi. Yet another pi has a built in web-server running on a separate port with a weather station. Jason @km4ack has a video on that build. Just yesterday I received a package from PiMoroni with an Enviro+ Air Quality that I am going to add to one of my Pis to track the same stuff I'm tracking with the BME680 in a different way.

[@andrewborntrager7909]

Once this is setup, can you run and view air traffic completely offline (no internet)?

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

You will be able to see whatever traffic your receiver is getting even while offline.

[@K5YVY]

Great job Carlos, I need to set this up someday.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Thanks Joe! If you nee help you know where to find me.

[@K5YVY]

@@LifeAtTerminalVelocity I did order a rtl-sdr right after your video lol dang it Carlos.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

My experience has been that the NooElec ones are better than the RTL-SDR branded ones but getting a hold of a NooElec one right now is near impossible.

What's the cpu usage? I'm wandering if I can install it on rpi zero

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

You can run the feeder on a zero but not the web interface.

@@LifeAtTerminalVelocity why not? I already run bunch of stuff on zero. I have more laying around, I will try. And I will report here.

@@LifeAtTerminalVelocity tried it on zero w, everything works, about 30% load

[@just-bret9525]

Great instructions Carlos, only thing I noticed was your volume is really low. I had everything cranked up to hear you good. Tomato potato. LOL!!

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

I noticed that when it went live. I sounded fine when I was editing but clearly something isn't right. I'll turn up the MIC gain on the next video.

[@vikasbarnwal17]

internet is required ?

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Only if you want to send your data to ADSBExchange. Otherwise no internet required. You can see all the data on your Pi or on the network that the Pi is connected to.

[@LionRoars918]

Holy. There is a much easier way to do it. 😮😮

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Excellent! Do you have a link?

[@LionRoars918]

@@LifeAtTerminalVelocity .. I would have just did the FlightAware Piaware image and then added the other feeders later. But I did see you did graphs1090 which is rockstar for ADS-B. I guess the whole thing .. is how easy you want it to be ?

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

I have used that image in the past, as a matter of fact my very first ADS-B receiver was built with that image. I prefer to have a RaspberryPiOS instance that I can update as I see fit instead of having to wait on a maintainer of a sub-distribution.

[@zoozolplexOne]

Cool !!

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Thanks!

[@WackFPV]

WTF I didn't even notice that gear down there...

[@DeLaCruzer11]

You don't even need the raspberry pi to setup a rtl-sdr adsb reciever, airplane tracker.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

You are correct. However the Raspberry Pi makes a very convenient low cost and low power consumption way of having such a receiver setup.

[@blueline308]

Godd information, BUT your audio levels are all over the place...up and down. Difficult to listen.

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

Sadly I have to 100% agree with you. I used three different things to record with and leveling the sound was near impossible. Did the best that I could with what I had, and since I have resolved the problem by using the same microphone and recorder to do anything new I do.

[@Tangcb]

Bro I love your video so much and I want to let more chinese people watch this. But in China mainland people can't use KZbin 😂Can I get the permission to upload your video to a China platform called Bilibili? I will put the original link under it and give you the link 😊

[@LifeAtTerminalVelocity]

I would rather not. Thanks for the offer.

[@enkrypt3d]

can barely hear u