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OpenADSB 4+
VRS & dump1090 flight tracking
Steve Kuo
Designed for iPad
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- £9.99
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Description
If you love tracking aircraft using dump1090, tar1090 or Virtual Radar Server then you'll love OpenADSB. OpenADSB is a full featured high performance aircraft tracker display app that connects to a variety of backend air traffic sources. Enjoy OpenADSB's smooth native iOS experience instead of using the web interface.
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING:
You purchasing a general purpose air traffic display app that connects to a variety of servers types. New traffic sources can be added under Settings (gear button) - Track Source. As a convenience, OpenADSB comes preconfigured to use ADS-B Exchange, a non-profit crowdsourced dump1090 data source. Air traffic from ADS-B Exchange is the sole responsibility of ADSBexchange.com, LLC. Frequent users are encouraged to support ADS-B Exchange through donations (adsbexchange.com/donate).
Features:
• Connects to dump1090, tar1090 and Virtual Radar Server.
• Comes preconfigured using ADS-B Exchange (adsbexchange.com). Note that OpenADSB is not affiliated with ADSBexchange.com, LLC
• Smoothly displays thousands of aircraft
• Shows aircraft history trails
• Various aircraft and history trail color schemes and optional legend
• Fully configurable filtering, display only the aircrafts you want to see
• Configurable military, VFR and emergency highlights
• Long-press on an aircraft to perform a browser search engine search of its callsign and registration
• Tap on an aircraft to show more details
• Details are fully configurable and includes callsign, registration, ICAO hex code, altitude, speed, vertical speed, heading, aircraft type, squawk code, MLAT, latitude/longitude and more
• Display values in imperial or metric units
• Bookmark up to 3 favorite locations
• Mail track details feature, send an email containing an aircraft's details along with a map snapshot, fully configurable
• Optimized data fetching logic minimizes network, battery usage and server load
• Highly configurable
• Supports Dark Mode on iOS 13
• Supports Split View, Slide Over and multitasking on iPad
• Keyboard shortcuts for external keyboards
Limitations and Disclaimer
OpenADSB is a general air traffic visualizer for Virtual Radar Server and dump1090 data sources. OpenADSB is not affiliated with ADSBexchange.com, LLC. As a convenience, OpenADSB comes preconfigured using ADSBexchange.com as the default data source. Air traffic data, its accuracy, and its validity, is the sole responsibility of the data provider. OpenADSB is for entertainment use only, and not for operational, flight, navigation, traffic avoidance or any mission critical use.
What’s New
Version 1.6.11
• Bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Binning flight radar
Because of this app. The only thing I don’t like is it doesn’t seem to show airports/departure-arrival boards the way fl24 does. Do t know if that’s something I’m doing wrong or if it’s a feature that could be added. Really quick app, can only compare to fl24, sorry lol but it is the superior app here. Shows some aircraft that fl24 does not, but fl24 also shows the flight path from take off airport to destination. Something else that could be added possibly. Loving it, well done and keep up the hard work ❤️
Good app with minor issues with selected altitudes.
This is a very good app. But lately I’m finding that most of the ‘selected altitudes’ are wrong. I see aircraft cruising at FL340 which have a selected altitude set to FL70, even though they won’t be descending for quite a few hours yet. When I consult plane Finder, I find that their selected altitudes are correct and do fit in with what should be the case. Not sure what’s going on here.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the feedback and bug report.
The ground vehicles appear as a result of the FAA’s ADSE-X, in which traditional radar is used to detect and track non ADS-B tracks. Since they are not ADS-B, they do not have a unique 24-bit address (hex code). ADSE-X assigns them a random address which appears in OpenADSB as a hex code prefixed by a tilde (~). One way to not show these ground vehicles is to set the ICAO Hex Code filter to “!~*”. !=not, *=wildcard, thus it will only show tracks with a hex code that doesn’t start with ~.
To show only callsigns that starts with EXS, set the callsign filter to “EXS*”. This will only show tracks with a callsign that starts with EXS.
The transition altitude slider issue is indeed and bug and will be fixed soon. Thanks for catching this.
For ADS-B Exchange’s VRS setting, its removal from OpenADSB was intentional. Until earlier this year, ADSBx was running VRS. ADSBx has since switched to tar1090 due to VRS’ ability to scale and its considerable expense to operate. Those that have used ADSBx VRS will have noticed how much faster tar1090 is. The reason why you see VRS briefly appear on a new install is that the VRS menu option is only removed after the app is run for the first time.
Another difference between VRS and ADSBx tar1090 is bulk history fetching. The VRS protocol supports fetching all aircrafts’ history in one network request, whereas for tar1090 this isn’t possible (tar1090 requires a request per aircraft). This explains why the History button is hidden for ADSBx tar1090. Note that ADSBx’s tar1090 history goes back much further than with VRS. Sometimes the history trail is so long that it clutters up the display in which case there’s an All vs Recent history toggle button in the upper-right.
As always, feedback and bug reports are appreciated. I found your emails in the spam folder and my apologies not replying sooner.
Needs tweaking!
Yes it’s a good app, however, it would be so much better if ALL airline tracks displayed their call signs and flight number and route information as other apps do that use the same data sources, the info is there, it just needs to be displayed.
Developer Response ,
OpenADSB connects to any VRS, dump1090, ModeSMixer2 and Radarcape server. By default it uses ADS-B Exchange. Most likely you're seeing missing data from ADS-B Exchange. Feel free to contact me (Settings – Feedback) so that I can help troubleshoot.
App Privacy
The developer, Steve Kuo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Steve Kuo
- Size
- 13.5 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 Steve Kuo
- Price
- £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.