api.md

Feed aircraft data to the adsb.chaos-consulting.de api

• This does not only work if you build a ADS-B reciever station according to our how-to
• If you already have an instance of Dump1090 or one of its forks running you can use the shown methods to feed data to our map

Connecting to the Chaos adsb API

• Request a Stationname and password by sending an email to us: [email protected]
• Place the adsb.sh file from our 'scripts' directory (https://github.com/chaos-consulting/adsberry) in a folder on your Pi. To keep it clean and tidy we create the folder adsb in /opt and place the file there.

cd /opt
sudo mkdir adsb
cd adsb
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaos-consulting/adsberry/master/scripts/adsb.sh
sudo nano adsb.sh

• Do not forget to put in your username and password we gave to you for using the api

• Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x adsb.sh

• As we do not want to execute the file manually we create a system servie, that is startet if the system boots and restartet if it crashes. Therefore we put the adsb.service file from our 'scripts' directory into /etc/systemd/system, reload the systemctl daemon, start the service, check the status and set it to autostart
• If you are running a different version of dump1090 you may need to change the path to your aircraft.json file in the adsb.sh script

sudo wget -O /etc/systemd/system/adsb.service https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaos-consulting/adsberry/master/scripts/adsb.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start adsb.service 
sudo systemctl status adsb.service 
sudo systemctl enable adsb.service 

• Thats it!

Take it a step further

• If you want more, you can add MLAT to your Setup to see the positions of Planes that do not send position info