How to feed?
Raspberry Pi with SDR USB Stick
You can easily share your data from your existing Raspberry Pi with software defined radio (SDR) USB stick. Our feeder software can be installed with one command and works alongside existing feeder setups.
To get started, open a terminal on your computer and connect to your Raspberry Pi over SSH (open Command Prompt on Windows or Terminal on Mac/Linux). You will need to know the IP address or hostname of your Raspberry Pi which can be found in your router's connected devices list.
The default user credentials are:
User: pi
Password: raspberry
If you are running the Adsbexchange Image, the password is adsb123. The latest Flightradar24 and Flightaware image uses 123456 as the default password.
Connect to your Raspberry PI and enter the password when prompted:
ssh pi@raspberryIPTo run the install script, copy/paste the following command and hit ENTER:
sudo bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://feed-install.planespotters.net/install.sh)"This will install all required packages and start your feeding client.
To see if your feed is working, follow the link shown at the end of the install script or check out our status page. To show the link for your feeder, you can run this command:
sudo bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://feed-install.planespotters.net/status.sh)"If you encounter any problems, please contact us and include a copy of the output for troubleshooting.
Alternative: Docker
This method is especially interesting if you would like to install the receiver and feeding software on your Raspberry Pi or desktop computer. SDR Enthusiasts have published an excellent guide on how to use Docker for a full setup with local map, graphs and feeders to multiple services: https://sdr-enthusiasts.gitbook.io/ads-b/
The "ultrafeeder" image (https://sdr-enthusiasts.gitbook.io/ads-b/foundations/deploy-ultrafeeder-container) can be used by including our endpoints in the ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG environment variable:
- ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=adsb,feed.planespotters.net,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;mlat,mlat.planespotters.net,31090,39003
Please see the example in their documentation on how to include other services.
To see if your feed is working, check out our status page.