Some weeks ago I upgraded my plane spotting setup by moving my antenna to the roof. It was worth every single effort I've made into it. My stats are rocking ever since. Until the corona crisis halted almost every airline to standstill..

It gave me some time to thinker about my setup, and for some weird coincidence Mike did create a series of docker containers like I was thinking about to implement. I have one pi connected to the USB device which captures the ADB radio signals.

But in the current situation it also feeds the flightaware service since I …

A couple of years ago I stumbled on the flightaware website and figured out you could capture radio signals from an airplane using a DVB-T dongle which can be bought for about EUR 15.

As this really triggered me to start monitoring planes above our head I bought myself such a device, hooked it up to a raspberry pi zero, installed the piaware software and started grabbing the messages and pushing the compiled positions through flightaware.

Through time I managed to upgrade my home lab towards a nomad cluster. So I migrated my piaware setup to a nomad node and …