Uncover the Secrets of the Sky: Setting Up ADSB Exchange for Airplane Tracking!

Part 1 was getting the Pi, Case, Dongles and the USB-Hub together to get started: https://youtu.be/Jzpzo6X42zU

Just a note on ADS-B Exchange. The owner, Dan Streufert, sold it to JetNet which is owned by a private equity firm, for what some estimate is about $20 million and a $200K/year job. All of the developers who actually built and maintained ADS-B Exchange are no longer with the company and hundreds of feeders have shut down their data streams and redirected them to new community data aggregators. Best I can tell, the ADS-B Exchange database also hasn't been updated since the sale so the map is showing incomplete or out of date information for some aircraft.

After a few days tweaking settings, I have my setup running and feeding to Flight Radar 24, and Flight Aware. I may start feeding ADSB Exchange as well. The little $35 Inovato Quadra computer is doing a great job. I even put my whole setup on my hamshack solar, so that it will never go down. My entire shack is now on battery with solar panels. ADSB is so much fun!

Thank you for yet another rabbit hole for me to want to go down! 73, K8JLW

Great video TO. Looks like my banking account is going to be deflating more again. Thanks for doing what you do!

You are into some very interesting projects that I really enjoy watching. Thank you!

Nice timing on these videos. I just picked up the 1090 dongle and ADSB-E image at Hamcation a few weeks ago. I have a Pi 3 and 4 laying around, not being used so I though I would put one of them to work. I hope to make the time to get it set up this month.

Fun project!

I've had alot of fun with ADSB. Need a much better antenna, just have indoors that small whip that comes with the rtl-sdr. Even then I get hits from maybe a 20 mile radius or so.

Good work T.O. Looks really cool, especially all the Cesna Kamikazi's headed tour way! Haha You must not have a tin roof, I struggle with indoor reception on anything. :/

Very nice job! I have question,may someone can give me some advice.In the recen years we more and more RC drones with raspberry pi and some of them have control and telemetry tru 4G which makes them all most unlimited range(limited only by the battery).There is any way to implement the ADSB-A,ADSB-B, EDSB-E on the raspberry pi en instead of viewing into the monitor to trigger an event when the dron have the risk of colliding with an aircraft if by chance they have the same altitude for some reason.Make like ADSB on board rada acting collision avoidance? Any advice will help.Thank you all

Are u plannin on tryin different types of antenna at all Steve?

Very cool TO, wondering if you can use this build to also upload data to flightaware and/or flightradar24? If it is possible, would you mind doing another video showing the details?

Someone knows how i change the webinterface port 80 into 82 or any other? Because my other webserver is use 80

A separate low noise amplifier + filter for 1090MHz close to the antenna and the cheapest rtl-sdr is probably in the same price category (or lower) as these specialized (crippled) rtl-sdr's with built-in filter, but it will be more flexible and will give better results. To get good results with rtl-sdr's that contain filter and amplifier, you have to get them close to the antenna. Then you need a very long USB cable or ethernet cable to move everything close to the antenna. But that is a bit of an inconvenience, so it is unlikely to be done. I haven't tested it, i just read the amazon listing and came to this conclusion based on prior experiences. In other words: It's just the opinion of a random person on the internet. ;)

Can you help me? I have installed it but i cant see military aircrafts on my „own“ map. On the „main“ site i can see them near to us.

How to convert it to Innovato quadra?

I'm confused. I can't find Part 1

Forgive the dumb question: how is having your own receiver better than just viewing the free ADSB feed?

So I'm commenting 11 months later so you may have totally moved but just in case a question and a comment. First the question. Since I am seeing that ADS-Exchange maybe on the way out is this still the optimal way to set up and ADSB receiver using the Raspberry pi? As for the comment you do an excellent job explaining things however it is very confusing knowing what computer/system you are operating from for each step in the process. Also the use of which wifi what is connected to what is confusing.