#Raspberry pi emulator on mac software#
Installing dump1090ĭump1090 is the core software in this setup it receives radio data from the SDR and decodes ADS-B messages. This process requires the Homebrew package manager for OS X. Keep this information handy throughout the process you’ll need it several times. I set my phone at the base of the antenna and waited a few minutes until the altitude number had settled to a steady state. Then, to find the exact elevation above sea level of my antenna, I used this app. If you find your house on Google Maps, right-click, and select “What’s Here?” you can copy the exact latitude and longitude of your home. Find the lat/lon and elevation of your antenna
#Raspberry pi emulator on mac pro#
I chose to buy a FlightAware Pro Stick Plus, which includes a purpose-built 1090MHz band-pass filter. I have an RTL-SDR already, but I use it for various projects and I didn’t want to dedicate it to this application forever. This post assumes you have some high-level familiarity with ADS-B and MLAT, and you have the capability to work on the terminal with OS X and Linux. Before you go down this path, I recommend skimming the entire post. Tracking aircraft on OS X is easy enough, but reporting positions to FlightAware direct from OS X is not.
This turned out to be a bigger challenge than I anticipated it took the better part of a Saturday. The process - particularly the networking and emulation steps - may be different on other macOS versions. This post documents the process I went through to get this working, on OS X 10.11.6. I already have a Mac Mini running 24/7 at home, close to a window, and so I wanted to run my monitoring directly on OS X. The vast majority of people who want to track aircraft with ADS-B and cheap SDR will do with a dedicated Raspberry Pi and FlightAware’s PiAware software.
I now recommend simply buying a dedicated Raspberry Pi for this application. The emulated Raspberry Pi setup described here turned out to be unstable for long-term use. Monitoring aircraft via ADS-B on OS X January 29 2017
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