ADSB Radar for NodeJS

Description

This is a small NodeJS / IOJs application server than can be run on Raspberry PI or small computer.

This program is written with AngularJs and Bootstrap as a technology showcase and web socket architecture.

Features

• Realtime display plane location when using RTL-SDR and dump1090 RTL1090 or any SBS receiver
• VirtualRadar compatible, complete your receiver output with web virtualradar station
• Coverage map of your antenna
• History of all planes around you
• Statistics of planes in your area
• Display planes per color to know which one are realtime or lost
• Dynamic Filter with keyword for all planes
• Display selected plane track with altitude color variation
• Track plane and description Features
• Filter planes inside current view
• Sharing server support

How to install

Simply git clone this repository.

 ~$ git clone https://github.com/fcrohas/node-radar.git 

Then do in node-radar folder :

 ~$ npm install 

Setup

Node Radar can accept multiple receiver backend at same time You can setup the config file in config directory that match your NODE_ENV environment variable.

Optionaly if you want to see plane silhouette, you can can your directory SilhouettesLogos from SBS Resources to public/img/SilhouettesLogos

Parameters

HTTP Server

The NodeJS server configuration

Parameter	Description
port	The NodeJS listening port

Proxy

If you are behind a proxy server

Parameter	Description
enable	Boolean to enable proxy support
host	Proxy server IP address
port	Proxy listening port
BasicAuth.enable	Boolean to ennable proxy authentication
BasicAuth.login	Proxy User
BasicAuth.password	Proxy password

Receivers

This will describe the configuration receiver station JSON array

Parameter	Description
Enable	Boolean state of this receiver
Host	IP address
Port	Listening port
Url	If Type is not LIVE then the Http base url to JSON output
Name	A friendly receiver name
Latitude	The receiver geo position
Longitude	The receiver geo position
Refresh	The refresh time interval, not use for LIVE type

Planes

This is the plane management configuration :

Parameter	Description
quality.[status].seen	Plane status is considered good if data are receveived in this time interval
quality.[status].color	Plane status good color
memory.timeout_client	After this time in seconds, the plane will be erased from browser memory
memory.timeout_server	After this time in seconds, the plane will be erased from server memory
refresh_time	Refresh interval to check for plane status change