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Velocity: a permanent history recorder for ADS-B receivers
A self-hosted tracker built with a lot of help from Claude Code that records every aircraft position from a tar1090 feed, so you can scrub back later.
Credits
- Reddit poster Fast-Aspect-2406 Source ↗
- Repository account AndrewCTF Source ↗
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The full story
tar1090 only keeps a short track history, so the maker built Velocity to record every aircraft position from a receiver's aircraft.json to local disk, letting any moment be replayed later. It can also read community aggregators, show ships from public AIS feeds, send area alerts to Discord, a webhook or ntfy, and replay public readsb heatmap archives back to 2024.
The maker notes that anything beyond your own receiver is only as good as the public feeds, and the 3D globe wants a decent GPU. It was built with a lot of help from Claude Code, with every change reviewed. It is AGPL licensed and runs with Docker Compose.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Self-hosted tracker that keeps a permanent history of what your ADS-B receiver sees (and AIS)Reddit poster: Fast-Aspect-2406Posted
The maker's post on r/RTLSDR.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Self-hosted tracker that keeps a permanent history of what your ADS-B receiver sees (and AIS) (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: AndrewCTF
The project on GitHub.