BETA: Feeding traffic into the FlyRealTraffic system

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You can now help improve traffic coverage by feeding data from your ADS-B receiver straight into the FlyRealTraffic system. Feeders are treated to a gratis (=free) upgrade of their standard license to a professional license, as long as the feed remains up.

It takes a bit of elbow grease to get it going, no magic though, that's reserved for the RT backend system, where the basic data coming in from the feeds is augmented with more information about many of the flights.

How to get going:

At this stage this is going to be mostly of interest to those amongst you who already are operating an ADS-B receiver and are feeding into one of the many networks. If you're brand new to feeding, please have a look at any of the following links on what it takes to get you up and running:

• ADSBExchange: https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-jo ... -your-own/

• airplanes.live: https://airplanes.live/hardware/

• adsb.fi: https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-fi-scripts

If you're currently feeding into any of above networks, or any other network that uses readsb as the decoder, it's as simple as adding one line to the configuration file. You can continue to feed into the other networks in parallel - I in fact would encourage you to do so for redundancy.

All you have to do is add a line to the NET_OPTIONS section in your config file (most often found in /etc/default/readsb) as per the instructions below:

• Head to https://www.flyrealtraffic.com/feeder_config/ and generate a UUID that pairs your RT license key with your feed identification

• Copy/paste the line from the last step and add it to the readsb config file. Either use nano or vi as the editor:

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  sudo vi /etc/default/readsb

  or

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  sudo nano /etc/default/readsb

  It should look something like this:

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  --net-connector feed.flyrealtraffic.com,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out,uuid=<insert the UUID you generated in the first step>

• Give it a minute (or less) after starting your feed and on your next login, your RT license is now professional level

• You can check the status of your feed by entering your RT license number on the feeder config page: https://www.flyrealtraffic.com/feeder_config/

I have locked and stickied this post - please start a new thread for any discussions or questions about feeding in this forum.