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[FEATURE REQUEST] Relay station support

Open ketilmo opened this issue 8 months ago • 5 comments

In some circumstances, feeding balena-ads-b from an upstream feeder rather than an RTLSDR stick can be beneficial. This includes when a third party feeder is already operational, but you want to feed data to the different services that balena-ads-b supports out of the box.

Quoting Mhayar on the balena forums:

I have just got into your nice ads-b work through balena. I have put it on a Raspberry 3b+ and tested with a rtl-sdr dongle that worked very nice; the problem is just the signal inside my building is not so good. I have one receiver on rooftop that is working for years and feeding both raw and decrypted outputs to my local virtual radar through LAN.

Now I want to know if there is any way to make the balena ADS-B station behave somehow like a relay station to get the raw feed from my first unit and share it to other flight trackers? (Which guess it could be done) and if yes, how could it be done (may be inserting variables and values to the console?)

ketilmo avatar Jun 02 '24 10:06 ketilmo