ADSB Capture with a Raspberry Pi 4 – AirSpy mini and home assistant

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Go to stacks and add a stack

Use the web editor and let’s add our service

https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts/airspy_adsb

The main change I had to do was to change the volumes to work with Home Assistant Operating System

    volumes:
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/docker_storage/ultrafeeder/globe_history:/var/globe_history
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/docker_storage/ultrafeeder/graphs1090:/var/lib/collectd
      - /proc/diskstats:/proc/diskstats:ro

services:
  airspy_adsb:
    image: ghcr.io/sdr-enthusiasts/airspy_adsb:latest
    tty: true
    container_name: airspy_adsb
    hostname: airspy_adsb
    restart: always
    device_cgroup_rules:
      - 'c 189:* rwm'
    environment:
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_VERBOSE=true
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_TIMEOUT=90
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_FEC_BITS=1
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_WHITELIST_THRESHOLD=5
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_PREAMBLE_FILTER_NONCRC=8
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_CPUTIME_TARGET=60
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_PREAMBLE_FILTER_MAX=20
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_MLAT_FREQ=12
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_RF_GAIN=auto
      - AIRSPY_ADSB_STATS=true
    volumes:
      - /dev:/dev:ro
    tmpfs:
      - /run:exec,size=256M
      - /tmp:size=128M
      - /var/log:size=32M

  ultrafeeder:
    image: ghcr.io/sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder
    # Note - if you want to enable telegraf for use with InfluxDB/Prometheus and Grafana,
    # use the following image instead:
    # image: ghcr.io/sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder:telegraf
    tty: true
    container_name: ultrafeeder
    hostname: ultrafeeder
    restart: unless-stopped
    device_cgroup_rules:
      - "c 189:* rwm"
    ports:
      - 8080:80 # to expose the web interface
      # - 9273-9274:9273-9274 # to expose the statistics interface to Prometheus
    environment:
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # general parameters:
      - LOGLEVEL=error
      - TZ=${FEEDER_TZ}
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # SDR related parameters:
      ### Set readsb to net-only mode, since we're getting SDR data via BEAST from airspy_adsb
      - READSB_NET_ONLY=true
      # - READSB_DEVICE_TYPE=rtlsdr
      # - READSB_RTLSDR_DEVICE=${ADSB_SDR_SERIAL}
      # - READSB_RTLSDR_PPM=${ADSB_SDR_PPM}
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # readsb/decoder parameters:
      - READSB_LAT=${FEEDER_LAT}
      - READSB_LON=${FEEDER_LONG}
      - READSB_ALT=${FEEDER_ALT_M}m
      ### Disable readsb gain, since airspy_adsb is handling that
      # - READSB_GAIN=${ADSB_SDR_GAIN}
      - READSB_RX_LOCATION_ACCURACY=2
      - READSB_STATS_RANGE=true
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # Sources and Aggregator connections:
      # Notes - remove the ones you are not using / feeding
      ###     - "adsb,airspy_adsb,30005,beast_in;" is how ultrafeeder gets the BEAST feed out of airspy_adsb
      #       - remove "adsb,dump978,30978,uat_in;" if you don't have dump978 and a UAT dongle connected to your station
      #       - !!! make sure that each line ends with a semicolon ";",  with the exception of the last line which shouldn't have a ";" !!!
      - ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG=
        adsb,airspy_adsb,30005,beast_in;
        #adsb,dump978,30978,uat_in;
        #adsb,feed.adsb.fi,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,in.adsb.lol,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,feed.airplanes.live,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,feed.planespotters.net,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,feed.theairtraffic.com,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,data.avdelphi.com,24999,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,skyfeed.hpradar.com,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,feed.radarplane.com,30001,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #adsb,dati.flyitalyadsb.com,4905,beast_reduce_plus_out;
        #mlat,feed.adsb.fi,31090,39000;
        #mlat,in.adsb.lol,31090,39001;
        #mlat,feed.airplanes.live,31090,39002;
        #mlat,mlat.planespotters.net,31090,39003;
        #mlat,feed.theairtraffic.com,31090,39004;
        #mlat,skyfeed.hpradar.com,31090,39005;
        #mlat,feed.radarplane.com,31090,39006;
        #mlat,dati.flyitalyadsb.com,30100,39007;
        #mlathub,piaware,30105,beast_in;
        #mlathub,rbfeeder,30105,beast_in;
        #mlathub,radarvirtuel,30105,beast_in;
        #mlathub,planewatch,30105,beast_in
      # If you really want to feed ADSBExchange, you can do so by adding this above:
      #        adsb,feed1.adsbexchange.com,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out,uuid=${ADSBX_UUID};
      #        mlat,feed.adsbexchange.com,31090,39008,uuid=${ADSBX_UUID}
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      - UUID=${MULTIFEEDER_UUID}
      - MLAT_USER=${FEEDER_NAME}
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # TAR1090 (Map Web Page) parameters:
      - UPDATE_TAR1090=true
      - TAR1090_DEFAULTCENTERLAT=${FEEDER_LAT}
      - TAR1090_DEFAULTCENTERLON=${FEEDER_LONG}
      - TAR1090_MESSAGERATEINTITLE=true
      - TAR1090_PAGETITLE=${FEEDER_NAME}
      - TAR1090_PLANECOUNTINTITLE=true
      - TAR1090_ENABLE_AC_DB=true
      - TAR1090_FLIGHTAWARELINKS=true
      - HEYWHATSTHAT_PANORAMA_ID=${FEEDER_HEYWHATSTHAT_ID}
      - HEYWHATSTHAT_ALTS=${FEEDER_HEYWHATSTHAT_ALTS}
      - TAR1090_SITESHOW=true
      - TAR1090_RANGE_OUTLINE_COLORED_BY_ALTITUDE=true
      - TAR1090_RANGE_OUTLINE_WIDTH=2.0
      - TAR1090_RANGERINGSDISTANCES=50,100,150,200
      - TAR1090_RANGERINGSCOLORS='#1A237E','#0D47A1','#42A5F5','#64B5F6'
      - TAR1090_USEROUTEAPI=true
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # GRAPHS1090 (Decoder and System Status Web Page) parameters:
      # The two 978 related parameters should only be included if you are running dump978 for UAT reception (USA only)
      - GRAPHS1090_DARKMODE=true
      # - ENABLE_978=yes
      # - URL_978=http://dump978/skyaware978
      ### Enable Airspy graphs and grab the data via http://airspy_adsb/stats.json
      - ENABLE_AIRSPY=true
      - URL_AIRSPY=http://airspy_adsb
      #
      # --------------------------------------------------
      # Prometheus and InfluxDB connection parameters:
      # (See above for the correct image tag you must use to enable this)
      # - INFLUXDBV2_URL=${INFLUX_URL}
      # - INFLUXDBV2_TOKEN=${INFLUX_TOKEN}
      # - INFLUXDBV2_BUCKET=${INFLUX_BUCKET}
      # - PROMETHEUS_ENABLE=true
    volumes:
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/docker_storage/ultrafeeder/globe_history:/var/globe_history
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/docker_storage/ultrafeeder/graphs1090:/var/lib/collectd
      - /proc/diskstats:/proc/diskstats:ro
      ### Don't map the host /dev into the container since the SDR(s) are handled in airspy_adsb / dump978
      # - /dev:/dev:ro
    tmpfs:
      - /run:exec,size=256M
      - /tmp:size=128M
      - /var/log:size=32M

Adjust your env files accordingly, and check out the ultrafeeder documentation https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder

FEEDER_TZ=Europe/Paris
FEEDER_LAT=
FEEDER_LONG=
FEEDER_ALT_M=
MULTIFEEDER_UUID=
FEEDER_NAME=
FEEDER_HEYWHATSTHAT_ID=
FEEDER_HEYWHATSTHAT_ALTS=

you can check the logs and see if your airspy is picked up