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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by chopsuei3 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:00PM (#30041681)
If you upload data with PiAware or something similar, FlightAware gives you an Enterprise level account, not sure if that offers API benefits though - https://flightaware.com/commercial/premium/#subscriptions https://blog.flightaware.com/201802-free-benefits-with-your-...
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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by robotastic on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:10PM (#30041766)
oh yea! great point, I forgot about that. I am using PiAware to handle the decoding so I do have an Enterprise Account. I will have to check if I can make API calls for free.
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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by phita on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:03AM (#30044472)
Unfortunately FlightAware Enterprise doesn't get discounted API access.

The FlightAware API I was using (they have multiple) didn't provide all the data I wanted either. The ADSB Exchange Rapid API was more comprehensive, but came at a cost.

The aircraft don't broadcast everything over ADSB - so these sites are all pulling from a database somewhere else. It appears ADSB Exchange and some of the pi based UIs use the tar1090-db. This was easy to work with and free - just need to update it periodically due to registration changes.

https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090-db

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