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Dom2364 / PlaneAlerter

A program that sends email alerts for Virtual Radar Server
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Feature Request: Webhooks #22

Open renfrewcountyscanner opened 1 year ago

renfrewcountyscanner commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Just started using your program, and I was wondering if you accept feature requests.
I am wondering if you could add on a Webhook option so the alerts can be sent off to something like RedNode or N8N for further processing. But including all the items you include in the emails like the google maps etc..

With twitter and API"s being somewhat useless these days, allowing people to pipe the output to other apps would make a nice feature.

Dom2364 commented 1 year ago

Hey, Webhooks would be a great addition! Especially being able to integrate with services like IFTTT would open up a lot of new uses for the program. I'll be adding it to the list for the next version. Would a single request per alert with all of the available info be suitable? Is there a need for sending multiple requests to different URL's or things like basic authentication? Open to ideas, if anyone has requests feel free to comment here.

renfrewcountyscanner commented 1 year ago

Hey, Webhooks would be a great addition! Especially being able to integrate with services like IFTTT would open up a lot of new uses for the program. I'll be adding it to the list for the next version. Would a single request per alert with all of the available info be suitable? Is there a need for sending multiple requests to different URL's or things like basic authentication? Open to ideas, if anyone has requests feel free to comment here.

If there was a webhook tab for each condition that would solve for sending to different URLS. Triggers, Email, Twitter, Webhook

And just send all the data in JSON format, the user can pick and choose which fields to grab and use in whatever platform they use. Include the google maps as a binary attachment option, not a need but more of a want. But a google maps LINK would be awesome. I like all the data in the email including the airports etc...

I also got one more question, any thoughts on expanding from VRS as the radar into allowing people to use Tar1090 or other sources that can provide a .json, That would expand your user base because a lot of people use Tar1090 now.

https://air.renfrewcountyscanner.com/ <-- thats mine running tar1090

Pulling from the right-hand side list shouldn't be that hard compared to VRS but unsure. I like your app, just wish I didn't need to run VRS for it.

renfrewcountyscanner commented 1 year ago

Tar1090 you can get the plane list from here https://air.renfrewcountyscanner.com/data/aircraft.json

Is that compatible with PlaneAlerter? Can it be?

Dom2364 commented 1 year ago

The format from tar1090 isn't compatible and would need a bit of work to make it work with Planealerter, but I think it's a good idea. A lot of the features in Planealerter like the property options, filtering by receiver/alt/distance, trails on the map and others rely on features from VRS. Looking into how tar1090 works on your site the aircraft database is loaded in the browser separately of the aircraft.json data, and the position trails are also sent separately. Adding support for the different aircraft.json format and all of the extra functionality required to get the database and trail data, and then also having to support another third party program with multiple forks/versions that could have breaking changes is probably too much work for the time I'm willing to spend on the project right now. I'll add it to the list but I can't guarantee that it'll happen.

renfrewcountyscanner commented 1 year ago

The format from tar1090 isn't compatible and would need a bit of work to make it work with Planealerter, but I think it's a good idea. A lot of the features in Planealerter like the property options, filtering by receiver/alt/distance, trails on the map and others rely on features from VRS. Looking into how tar1090 works on your site the aircraft database is loaded in the browser separately of the aircraft.json data, and the position trails are also sent separately. Adding support for the different aircraft.json format and all of the extra functionality required to get the database and trail data, and then also having to support another third party program with multiple forks/versions that could have breaking changes is probably too much work for the time I'm willing to spend on the project right now. I'll add it to the list but I can't guarantee that it'll happen.

I thought I'd ask. tar1090 was a wishlist, The webhooks would be a game changer for anyone using it.