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Aircraft tracker LED matrix display showing callsign, altitude, distance and heading (demo data)
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Aircraft Tracker Display: Nearby Flights Overhead on Your LED Matrix

See the aircraft flying over your house, with callsign, altitude, distance and heading, from your own ADS-B receiver.

Buy for $19

Secure checkout. You get the download right after purchase.

Requirements

  • Pi Display OS (sold separately, or in the Full Pi Display Bundle)
  • Recommended: an RTL-SDR dongle and 1090 MHz antenna with dump1090-fa or readsb
  • Optional online feeds (adsb.fi, ADS-B Exchange) under their personal-use terms, with your own access

See it running

Recorded from the shipped software in demo mode on a simulated LED panel, with demo data. Not camera footage of physical panels.

A Pi Display OS module that shows nearby aircraft: callsign, altitude, distance, bearing and speed, with an overhead-now takeover when something passes low and close.

The primary data source is your own ADS-B receiver (an inexpensive RTL-SDR dongle and antenna running standard open-source software), which needs no account and no internet. Online feeds can be added with your own access under each provider's terms.

Built from a working system

Already running on our own setup. Proven doesn't automatically mean ready for yours: the status above says what's left.

  • An aircraft page with silhouettes by aircraft category runs on our own panels

Features

Your own receiver

Reads the local aircraft feed from dump1090/readsb. No account needed.

Overhead now

Takes over the display when an aircraft passes within your radius and altitude.

Emergency squawks

7500, 7600 and 7700 highlighted.

Tested, and known limits

Software ready. Tested in software and simulation: installer, settings, every module, the web page and the MatrixPortal protocol against a simulated device. Not yet tested on physical LED panels by us; hardware results will be listed here once that test has been done.

  • Software ready: 563 automated tests pass from the customer zip, including receiver parsing (readsb, dump1090-fa, tar1090) from recorded feeds, request pacing and every panel size
  • Installs offline into Pi Display OS from its wheel; list, overhead-now takeover, emergency and idle demos stream to a simulated MatrixPortal and are accepted

Limits

  • Not yet tested by us against a live ADS-B receiver or on physical LED panels
  • adsb.fi open data is for personal, non-commercial use only; ADS-B Exchange needs your own RapidAPI key. Both are off by default; your own receiver needs neither

Licence, updates and support

Licence

Per-installation licence for personal use. Commercial venues (bars, offices, client installs) need a commercial licence. Commercial and installer licences are available on request. Full terms.

Updates

All updates within the purchased major version (for example 1.x). Major new versions may be a discounted paid upgrade. Current version: 1.0.0. Changelog.

Support

Documentation, a diagnostics report and email support for the tested configurations listed on the page. Report a problem.

Questions

Do I need an ADS-B receiver?

It's the recommended source: free, local and private. Online feeds are optional and use your own access.

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