Portable, remote real time ADS-B Aircraft Radar with BeagleBone Black, RTL2832U & dump1090

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These broadcast messages can be heard with inexpensive hardware like RTL2832U DVB-T USB dongles. ADS-B signals can be decoded by dump1090, a good software to decode the messages in Unix systems.

Here I implemented a remote real-time ADS-B Aircraft Radar with BeagleBone Black (BBB) (optional), a cheap Linux powered single board ARM computer. RTL2832U is plugged to BBB's USB. Also it is made available on local Ethernet. I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 on my BBB. Arm-hf image files and installation instructions can be found here.

RTL2832 USB drivers and dump1090 installation instructions are available here.

Through ssh connect to your remote BBB. Next go to dump1090 folder and execute the command "./dump1090 --interactive --net" to see the live decoded broadcast messages.
Open your web browser to see the real time plane positions plotted on Google maps along with altitude, speed and flight-stats information.
where 192.168.x.x is the IP address of your remote machine (BBB).

As my position is remotely located, aircraft traffic is some what poor...