Track aircraft with RTL-SDR and Flight Radar 24 in Home Assistant

[@Kev7274]

Love how you go step by step and not assume that everybody knows to to configure things from start to finish.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you! Glad it's noticed - just want to make sure most of the people can repeat the process. 😊

[@KrispKiwi]

Does this make any entities so you can put in on a dashboard or get an alert when a flight enters your area?

[@BeardedTinker]

Not directly. But there is a nice custom component that can pull data from it and display in HA Dashboard: github.com/fratsloos/fr24_card

[@TonyBleak]

When you share your info on Flight radar you get a free business account with it. Just more options / filters. I have been running mine (T-KAVQ20) for a while now on a separate Pi3b. Ranked #16386 in the world!! Woohoo.

[@BeardedTinker]

Nice congrats! Yes, I've cut that part out - had to get video to normal length 😂 Haven't activated mine yet as I want to move it first to permanent position. I'm probably still at the end of the list 😂

[@Minglarr]

Nice How-To! Made my life so much easier.. Now time for auitomations. Flightradar spits out a json on 8754 port... A couple of REST sensors and it should be fine... Again... BIG thanks...

[@kylegurney8610]

would this work for tracking flights arriving at the airport i configured? for example i have friends coming to visit frequently and i put their flight number in my calandar. I built a template sensor that exctracts that number but I would like to be able to track the flight in a way that lets me know when the flight takes off ( to account for delays or early departure) and then notifys me when the flight is 20 mins from landing

[@BeardedTinker]

Not directly as it's not able to predict time. You could in do it with a bit more complex automation to calculate the distance, but it would not be that simple. It tells you the distance from your location, not the airport, also you need to take into account speed and also height too. Other issue is distance - with standard antenna I get around 150-200km range, max. And App/integration will show you only data from your local received, not site itself.

[@nytram76]

Great video but I got this working via node red and the flightradar24 and worldmap node and no usb dongle. It's great. I've got a map in Home Assistant and get notifications when anything is flying overhead 👍 Also set it up for Gatwick too and to follow a certain flight in and out also.

[@BeardedTinker]

That's also possible - this one enables you to be source of data for sites that track aircraft. But also, when you feed data to Flight Radar 24, you get free business account (around 400€ cost normally), which is great for enthusiasts

[@ronm6585]

Can you share the node?

[@louwng1]

How do you get the notifications to appear in Home Assistant or is it part of the Node-Red flow?

[@romankrmela6679]

Thank you for tutorial this was exactly what was i looking for.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tridens6708]

You to quick can't see any information start at beginning what sofwear and Web page what's home assistant

[@BeardedTinker]

Can't help. Out of more than 300 videos, 95% are around Home Assistant. To start each video with how to install, use etc would be really useless and uncalled for. You'll have to look at other videos from me or other creators.

[@Tntdruid]

Cool stuff, I must have one for my secret bunker 😄

[@BeardedTinker]

It's a must for any secret bunker 😉😂

[@easthulk99]

But at the transcript 6.44sec.... he said evil bunker 😁😁

[@jgl153]

I need help. The ADS-B Multi-Portal Feeder is not starting. I run HA on a NUC. I have installed HA Core 2023.10.5 and OS 11.1. What can I do ?

[@BeardedTinker]

I'm having issues with mine OS upgrade coincided with heavy thunderstorm. So currently trying to figure out if stick is gone or has anything in HA OS changed that made it stop working.

[@jgl153]

@@BeardedTinker thank you very much for your quick response. If you found a solution, please let me know.

[@jgl153]

This was my initial installation. So I don't know if this issue is related to OS.

[@jamesking890]

I had a dedicated pi for PiAware. It's SD card recently failed, so I'm going to set it up in HA this weekend. glad i found your video. thanks. keep up the great work sir.

[@BeardedTinker]

Enjoy! It should be fun! Thank you for the comment!!!

[@admiralstipe]

Got it running and it works great, but SDR gets quite hot during operation (can't measure it, but I estimate cca 60°C under the hood, 45°C on the housing). Is yours the same? And yeah, I have to trim the antenna to 1/4 wavelength for better ADS-B reception.

[@BeardedTinker]

It really does get warm or better to say hot. I think it's still ok.

[@Badg0r]

I've been looking for a system like this for a long time. Thank you for sharing a tutorial

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Bart!!!

[@louwng1]

I have been using my ADSB receiver for quiet some time now, it's fun tracking aircraft overhead as i am on one of the flight paths into FACT, i am also sharing data with piaware, flightradar24, airnav radar24 and others. Great fun !!!

[@BeardedTinker]

Very cool Nico! I've just recently also installed FR24 Card in Home Assistant to get info also displyed on home screen.

[@iainhay2823]

Just ordered one, as you say no real use but nothing wrong with a bit of geeky fun👍✈️

[@iainhay2823]

Just arrived and easily setup with this video, Actually very useful for me as close enough to the airport that I can see the incoming flight for the ones I normally then take out and travel to airport accordingly!

[@louwng1]

@Iain I have used my sdr to build an adsb receiver running on a pi zero w so i can track live aircraft around me while flying

[@MatthewN8OHU]

I'm going to implement this sometime this weekend, I think. I already have a couple of RTL devices to use, one of which has a pretty decent antenna that it came with.

[@BeardedTinker]

It's so fun to have that one - still go to the AddOn and look what's going on, who's taking off or flying above me :)

[@simon0a0aubry]

Maybe in the future. First finish the energy dashboard

[@BeardedTinker]

Energy dashboard is never finished - there is always something to add there. 😉

[@mastweiler22]

Hmm, that would save me setting up a Pi, I've been thinking about doing this for ages and have the radio already, if it "just works" with HA then yay! Thanks for the info.

[@BeardedTinker]

It should work with any HA version that has AddOns. I've been playing with this now for few days and it works great. My range is unfortunately only around 20-25 miles, but managed to setup most of the connections and everything is running nicely.

[@mastweiler22]

@@BeardedTinker at last my evil lair is complete!!!!! well untill another idea shows up 😉

[@hierichwerda]

What type of flighradar account is needed to get a key?

[@BeardedTinker]

Any - or free. If you submit data to FR24, you'll get if I remember correctly Business version, that will be tied to your feed.

[@easthulk99]

I use HA and SDR to received data from my weather station..

[@BeardedTinker]

That's on my to-do as soon as second sdr arrives. Keeping this one for aircraft tracking. What weather station (external sensors) do you have?

[@easthulk99]

@@BeardedTinker my weather station is misol WH-SP-WS02. It has wind speed, wind direction, rain gauge, temperature and humidity at the outdoor unit

[@MartinHiggs84]

I'm interested a use for an rtl-sdr I already have. Can we do an automation if nearby under certain altitude to trigger a notification? For possible photo opportunity? 🤔

[@MartinHiggs84]

P.S You have gained another subscriber 😀

[@BeardedTinker]

Not sure if you've seen my (very old) video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnS7Y2xue6mer5Y I use it to track and receive notification when there is aircraft above my location. Unfortunately, still there is no integration between this AddOn and Home Assistant - it was planned, but nothing has been developed.

[@MartinHiggs84]

Shame no integration between them. I'll watch your video 😀

[@BeardedTinker]

Check this one - not sure how I missed this. It's not just plug and play, but also not that hard. Still haven't tried it! community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-add-on-ads-b-multi-portal-feeder-flightradar24-and-flightaware/345563/26?u=beardedconti

[@jonmachej]

Love your enthusiasm.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Jon 😊

[@firstcapt75]

I was planning to build a system to share data with FR24 and I was looking for the hardware but unfortunately finding a RPI 4 seems a hard word nowadays. Thank to you I just came to know that a Synology can be used for this purpose. I own a Synology NAS and now I need to understand how to install the VM with the Home Assistant OS in it and I need to buy the receiver. Thanks for sharing!

[@BeardedTinker]

What model do you have? Vm work out of box on Plus models, but can be sideloaded on others. Unless you have J - unfortunately, it's not powerful enough for VM.

[@firstcapt75]

@@BeardedTinker I have a 920+ and I just installed HA in Docker :)

[@ronm6585]

Cool! Thank you.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Ron!!!

[@ggonmar]

This was one of my main purposes of setting HA, for some reason this seems the most fun thing I've installed! However, I am still trying to figure out how to get proper information of the route being operated by each of the planes I see on FlightAware - I see the ident, squawk, altitude.... but if I want to see where that plane is coming from or where it is going, I need to click on flightradar24 and find it there... Any idea on how to get that information straight on the ADS-B Feeder addon? Thanks!

[@BeardedTinker]

Unfortunately, I still haven't figured this one out. Mine is currently offline - had some issues with installed and moved it back home for testing (it was on remote site). Visualisation in UI has improved over the time, but route - I'm still missing it.