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kevinabrandon / AboveTustin

ADS-B Twitter Bot. Uses dump1090-mutability to track airplanes and then tweets whenever an airplane flies overhead.
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Alarm Zone - Distance Alarm tweaks? #40

Closed Bering-Sea closed 4 years ago

Bering-Sea commented 5 years ago

@kevinabrandon My setup is about a 1/4 mile from the runway and would like to catch planes on approach and leaving the runway. My setup has a 5 mile distance alarm i just get the plane taxiing on ramp. I set it up for 5 miles to catch the planes passing overhead my location. Very little traffic below 30,000 feet at my location. It tweets planes flying by overhead fine.

I don't know much coding. Just tweak written code or copy, paste and delete for now.

Can my distance alarm not include the first mile and start from 2 miles to 5 miles?

Bering-Sea commented 5 years ago

That question of distance alarm answered itself last night.

So I still have the same dilemma. Can I have the my elevation alarm be a range and not just one number?

distance_alarm = 1 elevation_alarm = 10 to 30 <-----???

is that possible?

kevinabrandon commented 5 years ago

So you could do that but you'd have to change the code on line 170 of tracker.py.

Currently it's: if a.distance < abovetustin_distance_alarm or a.el > abovetustin_elevation_alarm: and change it to something like: if a.distance < 1 or (a.el > 10 and a.el < 30):

If you want you could rename the elevation_alarm in the ini file to elevation_alarm_min and add an elevation_alarm_max and then other people might do similar.

Bering-Sea commented 5 years ago

@kevinabrandon Great! I'll do that, thanks!