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Better support for Mode-S Beast serial output

Open EvenAR opened this issue 4 months ago • 5 comments

First of all, thank you for creating this amazing image - it makes sharing data incredibly easy!

I have a Mode-S Beast connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 via USB, and my current setup for using it with adsb.im involves the following steps:

  1. Adding the following config to /opt/adsb/config/docker-compose.yml. This gives the ultrafeeder container access to the Mode-S Beast serial output:
    services:
      ultrafeeder:
        devices:
          - /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
    
  2. Adding the following environment variable on the "Expert" settings page. Ultrafeeder will then connect to the serial port /dev/ttyUSB0:
    READSB_DEVICE_TYPE=modesbeast
    

.. which took some time to figure out. What are your thoughts on adding this to the default docker-compose.yml? It would be even better if "Mode-S Beast over USB" were an option during initial setup :)

Best regards, Even

EvenAR avatar Oct 09 '24 18:10 EvenAR