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I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#32Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
Are you filtering out military planes?
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#33Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
If you upload data with PiAware or something similar, FlightAware gives you an Enterprise level account, not sure if that offers API benefits though - https://flightaware.com/commercial/premium/#subscriptions
https://blog.flightaware.com/201802-free-benefits-with-your-...
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#34Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
Awesome! I live north of Austin-Bergstrom and I quite often see planes on final approach. I've thought about doing this, and also trying to find a physical site for a telescope or telescopes to watch take-offs and landings.
Let me know if you ever go down this rabbit-hole. Happy to give you pointers! You can get some pretty decent cameras off ebay for <$500. Since you are close you do not need much zoom.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#35Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
If you set up an ADB, Flight Aware will give you an Enterprise account. FlightRadar24 also will give you a Business account. There is a docker image out there that will let you pump data to both services.
Oops, just posted the same thing, you beat me to it, good looking out =)
Can you please share more details on that docker image setup?
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#36One neat thing that could be made with these individual pics is to composite them to this sort of neat picture https://i.imgur.com/6czv1gU.jpg
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#37This is super cool, I've had the idea to do the same thing for a while now, but never bothered to try. Really cool to see it realized and in action!
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#38Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
What did that camera set you back (or did you get it some other way)? Their page only says "Call for pricing", which usually means it's going to be outside my hobby budget hah.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#39Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
If you upload data with PiAware or something similar, FlightAware gives you an Enterprise level account, not sure if that offers API benefits though - https://flightaware.com/commercial/premium/#subscriptions https://blog.flightaware.com/201802-free-benefits-with-your-...
oh yea! great point, I forgot about that. I am using PiAware to handle the decoding so I do have an Enterprise Account. I will have to check if I can make API calls for free.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you set up an ADB, Flight Aware will give you an Enterprise account. FlightRadar24 also will give you a Business account. There is a docker image out there that will let you pump data to both services.
Oops, just posted the same thing, you beat me to it, good looking out =) Can you please share more details on that docker image setup?
I have been using this Docker image on my Pi and it has been rock solid once you get it setup:
https://github.com/mikenye/docker-piaware