FlightAware Contribution Monitor

Script to discover how much of your ADSB receiver data FlightAware are actually using.

Purpose

By running this application, you get detailed insight into your ADS-B contributions to FlightAware. This is valuable for tracking performance and troubleshooting issues.

Overview

The application comprises seven main components:

• Configuration File (config.me): Contains settings like FlightAware username.
• Startup Script (start.sh): Initiates the application and runs the Python scripts.
• FA Stats (step1-fa-stats-page.py): Scrapes statistics from FlightAware.
• Download Tracklogs (step2-download-tracklog-htmls.py): Downloads track logs.
• Scrape Local HTMLs (step3-scrape-local-htmls.py): Parses downloaded HTML track logs.
• Build Final Report (step4-build-final-report.py): Compiles data into a final report.
• Erase Temp Files (step5-erase-temp-files.py): Deletes temporary files.

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi4 running Raspbian OS
• FlightAware ADSB account

Dependencies (automatically installed)

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
• Python 3.x
• Selenium WebDriver
• BeautifulSoup
• Additional Python libraries (e.g., requests, csv, re)
• sudo apt update

Installation

1) wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yanniedog/flightaware-contribution/main/install-fa-tracklog-contribution.sh 2) chmod +x install-fa-tracklog-contribution.sh 3) ./install-fa-tracklog-contribution.sh

Configuration

1. Open config.me in a text editor.
2. Edit the settings to match your FlightAware username and other necessary parameters.

Usage

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Navigate to the application directory.
3. Make start.sh executable if it isn't: chmod +x start.sh.
4. Run start.sh to initiate the application: ./start.sh.

Uninstallation

• Delete installation directory (rm -r /home/pi/{installation directory}
• Delete installation script file