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If you wish to feed FlightAware, follow the steps below.

Feeding FlightRadar24

FlightRadar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world. Their service is currently available online and their mobile app is quite good. In order to access the features of the mobile app, you'll need to feed your ADS-B data to them for a free business plan.

fr24feed is a FlightRadar24 client program to securely transmit ADS-B and Mode S data to the commercial entity FlightRadar24.

I've created a docker image mikenye/fr24feed that contains fr24feed and all of its required prerequisites and libraries.

Getting a Sharing Key

Already running fr24feed?

You'll need your fr24key from your existing feeder.

To get your fr24key, log onto your feeder and issue the command:

cat /etc/fr24feed.ini | grep fr24key

New to fr24feed?

If you're already feeding FlightRadar24 and you've followed the steps in the previous command, you can skip this section.

First-time users should obtain a FlightRadar24 sharing key (a fr24key). To get one, you can run through the sign-up process. This will ask a series of questions allowing you to sign up with FlightRadar24 and get a fr24key.

There's an automated script that you can run, however if this breaks (please let me know so I can fix it), you can also use the manual sign-up method.

Automatic Sign-Up Script Method

Run these commands from within your application directory (/opt/adsb):

source ./.env
docker run \
  --rm \
  -it \
  -e FEEDER_LAT="$FEEDER_LAT" \
  -e FEEDER_LONG="$FEEDER_LONG" \
  -e FEEDER_ALT_FT="$FEEDER_ALT_FT" \
  -e FR24_EMAIL="[email protected]" \
  --entrypoint /scripts/signup.sh \
  mikenye/fr24feed

Be sure to replace [email protected] with your actual email address!

After about 30 seconds or so, if the script method was successful, you should see output similar to this:

FR24_SHARING_KEY=5fa9ca2g9049b615
FR24_RADAR_ID=T-XXXX123

Simply copy these lines and paste them into your .env file.

If something went wrong, please take a moment to let me know, then try the manual method below.

Manual Sign-Up Method

Run the command:

docker run --rm -it --entrypoint fr24feed mikenye/fr24feed --signup

This will take you through the sign-up process. At the end of the sign-up process, you'll be presented with:

Congratulations! You are now registered and ready to share ADS-B data with Flightradar24.
+ Your sharing key (xxxxxxxxxxxx) has been configured and emailed to you for backup purposes.
+ Your radar id is X-XXXXXXX, please include it in all email communication with us.

Copy the sharing key you are given, and add the following line to your .env file:

FR24_SHARING_KEY=YOURSHARINGKEY
  • Replace YOURSHARINGKEY with the sharing key from the output of the manual sign-up process.

For example:

FR24_SHARING_KEY=10ae138d0c1g

Deploying fr24feed container

Open the docker-compose.yml file that was created when deploying readsb.

Append the following lines to the end of the file (inside the services: section):

  fr24:
    image: mikenye/fr24feed:latest
    tty: true
    container_name: fr24
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - readsb
    ports:
      - 8754:8754
    environment:
      - BEASTHOST=readsb
      - TZ=${FEEDER_TZ}
      - FR24KEY=${FR24_SHARING_KEY}
      - MLAT=yes

To explain what's going on in this addition:

  • We're creating a container called fr24, from the image mikenye/fr24feed:latest.
  • We're passing several environment variables to the container:
    • BEASTHOST=readsb to inform the feeder to get its ADSB data from the container readsb network.
    • TZ will use the FEEDER_TZ variable from your .env file.
    • FR24KEY will use the FR24_SHARING_KEY variable from your .env file.
    • We're enabling MLAT with MLAT=yes.

Once the file has been updated, issue the command docker-compose up -d in the application directory to apply the changes and bring up the fr24 container. You should see the following output:

readsb is up-to-date
adsbx is up-to-date
piaware is up-to-date
Creating fr24

We can view the logs for the environment with the command docker-compose logs, or continually "tail" them with docker-compose logs -f. At this stage, the logs will be fairly unexciting and look like this:

[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
[cont-init.d] 01-fr24feed: executing...
[cont-init.d] 01-fr24feed: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] done.
[services.d] starting services
[services.d] done.
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | ______  _  _         _      _                    _              _____    ___
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | |  ___|| |(_)       | |    | |                  | |            / __  \  /   |
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | | |_   | | _   __ _ | |__  | |_  _ __  __ _   __| |  __ _  _ __`' / /' / /| |
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | |  _|  | || | / _` || '_ \ | __|| '__|/ _` | / _` | / _` || '__| / /  / /_| |
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | | |    | || || (_| || | | || |_ | |  | (_| || (_| || (_| || |  ./ /___\___  |
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | \_|    |_||_| \__, ||_| |_| \__||_|   \__,_| \__,_| \__,_||_|  \_____/    |_/
2020-11-20 16:35:53 |                __/ |
2020-11-20 16:35:53 |               |___/
2020-11-20 16:35:53 | info | [httpd]Server started, listening on 0.0.0.0:8754
2020-11-20 16:35:54 | [i]PacketSenderConfiguration::fetch_config(): Yoda configuration for this receiver is disabled
2020-11-20 16:35:54 | [d]TLSConnection::ctor(): Enable verify_peer in production code!
2020-11-20 16:35:55 | [feed][d]fetching configuration
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | [feed][c]Max range AIR: 350.0nm
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | [feed][c]Max range GND: 100.0nm
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | [feed][c]Timestamps: optional
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | info | [stats]Stats thread started
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | info | Stopping ReceiverACSender threads for feed
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | info | Configured ReceiverACSender: 185.218.24.22:8099,185.218.24.23:8099,185.218.24.24:8099, feed: XXXX1234, send_interval: 5s, max age: 15s, send metadata: true, mode: 1, filtering: true
2020-11-20 16:35:56 | info | Network thread connecting to 185.218.24.22:8099 for feed XXXX1234

Once running, you can visit http://docker.host.ip.addr:8754 to access the fr24feed web interface. You can also log onto FlightRadar24's website and click on the your profile button, and then "My data sharing" link to see your statistics.