https://rytaylor.net/tags/discord/ Recent content in Discord on Hey, I'm Ry! 👋 Hugo en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rytaylor.net/posts/adsb-plane-tracker/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rytaylor.net/posts/adsb-plane-tracker/ <p> </p> <p>This past weekend I built a fully self-hosted ADS-B plane tracking system that monitors aircraft flying over my house in real time — no third party APIs for flight position data, no rate limits, no filtering. All position tracking runs locally on my Proxmox homelab using a cheap RTL-SDR dongle and a rooftop antenna.</p> <p> </p> <iframe src="https://dump1090.unstablehideout.xyz/tar1090/?lat=42.084&lon=-72.527&zoom=9&hideSidebar" width="100%" height="500px" frameborder="0" style="border-radius:8px;"> </iframe> <h2 id="--how-it-works">📡   How It Works</h2> <p>Aircraft broadcast their position, altitude, speed, heading and identity on 1090MHz continuously. An RTL-SDR V3 dongle picks up these signals through a dual band outdoor fiberglass antenna mounted on my downspout, and dump1090-mutability decodes them into readable aircraft data updated every second.</p>