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No effect on "download flight information for selected aircraft" in ADS-B demod

Open daviderud opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

As per title.

How to reproduce: Register for a new free account at avionicstack. Start the program Setup ADS-B, put the API key in the setting dialog Demodulate ADS-B data of planes, make sure it gets a callsign Click the button.

In the log I see: 2022-04-16 13:31:47.721 (D) AviationStack::handleReply: data array is empty 2022-04-16 13:31:51.934 (D) ADSBDemodGUI::on_flightInfo_clicked - No flight number for selected aircraft

API counter is increasing in avionicstack so maybe it is just me unlucky, but so far I've never been able to get any data...

Manually searching same callsign on flightradar24, it exists (try for example "AFR47UN")

daviderud avatar Apr 16 '22 11:04 daviderud

From the docs:

To be able to use this, a callsign for the highlighted aircraft must have been received. Also, the callsign must be mappable to a flight number, which is not always possible (this is typically the case for callsigns that end in two characters, as for these, some digits from the flight number will have been omitted).

Which looks like the case for you example. Fr24 has a better way of guessing the flight number.

srcejon avatar Apr 16 '22 13:04 srcejon

I see. So far it seemed systematic for me, I'll try testing it out with more sample flights.

daviderud avatar Apr 17 '22 04:04 daviderud

Today I tried with around 20 aircrafts - for all of them the callsign was received correctly - and no information was retrieved from avionicstack. Seem deterministic at least for me...

daviderud avatar May 04 '22 06:05 daviderud

It appears aviationstack API is returning an "internal error" - I've contacted their support to see what the problem might be.

srcejon avatar May 04 '22 09:05 srcejon

aviationstack seems to be working now.

Please try on a flight where the callsign is of the form: AAAnnn - Where A are letters and n are digits. If there's letters at the end of the callsign, it probably wont work. Unfortunately that seems to be the case for many flights today.

srcejon avatar May 09 '22 12:05 srcejon

This issue is going to be closed due to inactivity

github-actions[bot] avatar Jul 09 '22 04:07 github-actions[bot]

Need more time to test

daviderud avatar Jul 10 '22 04:07 daviderud

Confirmed working again, for some callsigns (majority AAAnnn but also sometime others).

daviderud avatar Aug 26 '22 13:08 daviderud