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<JOKE> As the author of dump1090 I'm going to change the license to require that it is always used together with Redis Streams and not with Kafka. </JOKE>

Topgamer7 8y ago
Us hackernewsians have no humor. I'm taking this seriously and forking dump1090 and calling it dump1337
- bigiain 8y ago
  Bug Report: I'm not receiving any aircraft data on 1337MHz...
ihuman 8y ago
OP's python script manually parses dump1090's output[0]. Is this the recommended way to get information with this level of detail from dump1090's output into another program? In the past I've used the SBS1 port because I didn't think to run dump1090 as a sub-process. Next time I use dump1090, I'd rather not use a SBS1 parser if I don't have to. [0] https://github.com/saubury/plane-kafka/blob/master/raspberry-pi/plane-kafka.py#L76 https://github.com/saubury/plane-kafka/blob/master/raspberry...
- antirez 8y ago
  Both works but perhaps using TCP port 30001 makes more sense in the context of a serious project: 1. Simpler to upgrade to a distributed setup. 2. Format is stable but with enough pre-parsed information, like the coordinates which are hard to extract. 3. The process doing the data collection can avoid to die together with dump1090 in case of crashes or USB errors. You just need a script to restart dump1090, and the ability to reconnect in the other side. However I don't remember exactly how the SBS1 port data are ready-to-use exactly, and if there is too much work to do compared to just parsing the raw text output of the program.
  - ihuman 8y ago
    Do you mean 30002 (raw output over TCP)? I'm trying to get data out of dump1090, not feed it data. If that's the case, I'd still have to write my own decoder to process the raw adsb packets.
    - antirez 8y ago
      I mean 30003, that outputs things like: MSG,4,,,738065,,,,,,,,420,179,,,0,,0,0,0,0 MSG,3,,,738065,,,,,,,35000,,,34.81609,34.07810,,,0,0,0,0
      - ihuman 8y ago
        That's what I've done in the past; I was just wondering if there was a better way.
        antirez 8y ago
        I think one could open yet another port and output a JSON entry per line with much more information, and just don't care about the old standards.

Topgamer7 8y ago

Us hackernewsians have no humor. I'm taking this seriously and forking dump1090 and calling it dump1337

bigiain 8y ago
Bug Report: I'm not receiving any aircraft data on 1337MHz...

ihuman 8y ago

OP's python script manually parses dump1090's output[0]. Is this the recommended way to get information with this level of detail from dump1090's output into another program? In the past I've used the SBS1 port because I didn't think to run dump1090 as a sub-process. Next time I use dump1090, I'd rather not use a SBS1 parser if I don't have to. [0] https://github.com/saubury/plane-kafka/blob/master/raspberry-pi/plane-kafka.py#L76 https://github.com/saubury/plane-kafka/blob/master/raspberry...

antirez 8y ago
Both works but perhaps using TCP port 30001 makes more sense in the context of a serious project: 1. Simpler to upgrade to a distributed setup. 2. Format is stable but with enough pre-parsed information, like the coordinates which are hard to extract. 3. The process doing the data collection can avoid to die together with dump1090 in case of crashes or USB errors. You just need a script to restart dump1090, and the ability to reconnect in the other side. However I don't remember exactly how the SBS1 port data are ready-to-use exactly, and if there is too much work to do compared to just parsing the raw text output of the program.
- ihuman 8y ago
  Do you mean 30002 (raw output over TCP)? I'm trying to get data out of dump1090, not feed it data. If that's the case, I'd still have to write my own decoder to process the raw adsb packets.
  - antirez 8y ago
    I mean 30003, that outputs things like: MSG,4,,,738065,,,,,,,,420,179,,,0,,0,0,0,0 MSG,3,,,738065,,,,,,,35000,,,34.81609,34.07810,,,0,0,0,0
    - ihuman 8y ago
      That's what I've done in the past; I was just wondering if there was a better way.
      - antirez 8y ago
        I think one could open yet another port and output a JSON entry per line with much more information, and just don't care about the old standards.