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Flows CommunityApp SDK2
[NEW APP] Virtual Radar - Track your airspace anywhere in the world
gruijter_dev
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Mostly because I could I make an app that turns your Homey into an airspace radar. Or actually multiple radars that you can setup anywhere in the world. It uses live ADS-B tracker info from virtualradarserver.co.uk.
Use cases:
* Prove to the local airport that there really are too many night flights over your house
DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER USE CASE MAYBE? LET ME KNOW!
Can you use this app? Or is it just eating up precious Homey memory? Give me feedback!
Use cases:
* Prove to the local airport that there really are too many night flights over your house
* Ever wanted to know where that plane over your house is heading?
* Do you want to track the local Police Helicopter?
* Do you need a record of small planes flying over your estate too low?
* Interested in knowing where Military airplanes are?
* Do you want to track your pilot husband all over the world?
* Do you want a push message when your wife is taking the helicopter again?
DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER USE CASE MAYBE? LET ME KNOW!
### Action flow cards ###
* Aircraft entering airspace
* Aircraft moving in airspace
* Aircraft leaving airspace
* Tracker came online
* Tracker info was updated
* Tracker went offline
* Aircraft went airborne (tracker)
* Aircraft landed (tracker)
With the flow cards you get the following tokens:
- dist: The distance to the aircraft in kilometres.
- bearing: The bearing from the radar to the aircraft clockwise from 0° north
- alt: The altitude in meters adjusted for local air pressure.
- ground: True if the aircraft is on the ground
- km/h: The ground speed in km/h
- vert.: Vertical speed in meter per minute.
- species: The species of the aircraft (helicopter, jet etc.)
- mil: True if the aircraft appears to be operated by the military.
- icao: ICAO unique ID
- reg: The registration
- call: The callsign
- model: A description of the aircraft's model. Usually also includes the manufacturer's name.
- oprtr: The name of the aircraft's operator.
- from: The code and name of the departure airport.
- to: The code and name of the arrival airport.
- help: True if the aircraft is transmitting an emergency squawk.
Can you use this app? Or is it just eating up precious Homey memory? Give me feedback!
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Thx for all the nice feedback and donations
This has motivated me to do more work on this app.
Quick update:
@Rocodamelshe pointed me to a bug in the altitude filtering (thanks!). This will be fixed in the next release.
Furthermore I decided to add a seperate device driver for tracking aircrafts. With this you can track individual aircrafts based on their icao, registration or call sign. Use cases could be for a family working in the airline business, the oil business (Norwegians?
Since I'm still doing some design decisions for this driver, please let me know if/how you would want to use the tracker.
Also for the virtual radar, please let me know how you use it and why you like it. That helps me making the app even better.
And don't forget to do a review in the appstore (and donate a nice cold beer
I also added take-off and landing flowcards, but since this information is not updated in all transponders it might not work well for every aircraft.
Let me know if this tracker is useful or not.
Everything is working as expected