Skyecho 2 . Warning traffic data receiver problem

[danny_galaga]

Thought I'd watch riverfire from home on my tablet, since who knows when I'll actually use this for navigating 😄

 

But it's been so long, I can't remember how to make it work. It used to be fairly automatic. Any ideas? Dunno if I'll get this sorted out in time. But theres always riverfire 2025...

[danny_galaga]

Oh, it's  picking up flights now. But still gives me the same warning 🤔 

[skippydiesel]

Will the Skyeco 2 "talk" to OzRunways?

 

 

[Thruster88]

50 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Will the Skyeco 2 "talk" to OzRunways?

 

 

Yes, it connects via WiFi to display adsb traffic.

[skippydiesel]

Anyone have a  "screenshot" of SE2 reporting on OzRunways? ie Whats it look like?

Edited September 2 by skippydiesel

[kgwilson]

SE2 will connect to Ozrunways automatically when the SE2 is connected to the device via WiFi. OzRunways will pick up other OzRunways traffic with or without ADSB, as well as direct ADSB out equipped aircraft. As far as I know they have different background colours. You may see the aircraft twice as the Ozrunways equipped aircraft data has some latency given it has to transmit through the mobile data network whereas ADSB direct is virtually instant.

 

Direct ADSB in traffic is shown as green in most systems. Depending on the software this can change to yellow where there is a possible conflict & then red when the conflict and distance reaches a specified threshold. Again depending on the Navigation software traffic can be filtered out to avoid clutter. In Enroute FP only ADSB out enabled traffic less than 20NM horizontally and less than 1500 metres vertically will be displayed so you won't see all the RPT flying overhead at 35,000 feet.

 

[danny_galaga]

9 hours ago, kgwilson said:

Again depending on the Navigation software traff In Enroute FP only ADSB out enabled traffic less than 20NM horizontally and less than 1500 metres vertically will be displayed so you won't see all the RPT flying overhead at 35,000 feet.

 

 

That's one of the few positives of living near a flight path.I  see all the traffic coming in to brissie airport from my place. 

 

I'm not sure if I'm ever going to fly again so at least I can use this for plane spotting 🙂

Edited September 2 by danny_galaga

[Bosi72]

Whilst SkyEcho will do the job and show the nearby traffic only, in my opinion getting a dedicated Raspberry Pi+ADSB receiver and sharing the data is better option. 

It costs between $150-200, which is significantly cheaper than SkyEcho, and enables the premium access to Adsb data sharing websites.

For example my Adsb receiver sends the data to:

AdsbExchange (in return I receive non-filtered Adsb traffic),

FlightAware (because AvPlan is using them and I can see the flight plans submitted to Airservices),

FlightRadar24 (as the largest Adsb data sharing website in the world).

 

Alternatively, if I don't want to share the data, I can still see the traffic directly from the receiver.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

[Garfly]

On 02/09/2024 at 5:23 PM, skippydiesel said:

Anyone have a  "screenshot" of SE2 reporting on OzRunways? ie Whats it look like?

 

Skippy, below are a few random screenshots.  OzRwys uses the light blue symbols for its own in-house traffic system.

 

The dark blue are the ADSB derived targets (whether direct , say from the SE2 or indirect, from, say the AvTraffic app.)

 

The local (Southport Qld)  'AvTraffic'  app is able to communicate with OzRwys (full version) and display its ADSB targets on the map page.

 

Of course,, this info is sourced from the online ADSB-exchange and so it's not as reliable as the direct air-to-air ADSB info from the SE2.

 

But AvTraffic does have a built-in audio traffic alert system which can be blue-toothed to headsets and even used in conjunction with the SE2. 

 

 

AvTraffic

AVTRAFFIC.COM

 

 

 

It's interesting to see how the number of aircraft with ADSB-OUT of some kind is on the increase.

 

It seems it's only a matter of time before it'll become mandatory.

 

Some of the screenshots below show ADSB targets (dark blue) fed from the SE2 and some of them show info from AvTraffic.

For example I was interested in 'seeing' the traffic at Port Macquarie from Taree (27 NM away).  This was only possible using the AvTraffic feed (or switching to another app.)

The SE2, of course, has a limited (line-of-sight) range, whereas the ADSB exchange apps are only limited by the number of participating receivers in a given area. 

Anyway, these pics all happen to have been captured while on the ground.

 

All the altitudes displayed are in hundreds relative to the level of the device/own-ship.

 

 

CLICK ON PICS FOR FULL REZ

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 4 by Garfly

[danny_galaga]

That's quite neat 🙂. Mine just has green rectangles, but then again it's free software so I can't complain about that.

[skippydiesel]

Very nice Garfly.

 

Will follow up, I think on an SE2

18 hours ago, Bosi72 said:

Whilst SkyEcho will do the job and show the nearby traffic only, in my opinion getting a dedicated Raspberry Pi+ADSB receiver and sharing the data is better option. 

It costs between $150-200, which is significantly cheaper than SkyEcho, and enables the premium access to Adsb data sharing websites.

For example my Adsb receiver sends the data to:

AdsbExchange (in return I receive non-filtered Adsb traffic),

FlightAware (because AvPlan is using them and I can see the flight plans submitted to Airservices),

FlightRadar24 (as the largest Adsb data sharing website in the world).

 

Alternatively, if I don't want to share the data, I can still see the traffic directly from the receiver.

 

 

  

 

 

Bosi -

This something you have to build yourself?

For PC? OR aircraft?

 

 

 

  

consider an 

Edited September 4 by skippydiesel

[Bosi72]

11 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Bosi -

This something you have to build yourself?

For PC? OR aircraft?

This was my initial Adsb-in setup which I used in aircrafts before buying SkyEcho in 2020. I can't say I built it, it was rather buying components, joining them, compiling, configuring the code. 

 

The device is now "retired" sitting at home keeping my subscriptions active.

 

Many years ago I also had a PC version, but that was primarily used for Ham radio.

[kgwilson]

Once you set up an ADSB ground station and register it with FR24 &/or Flightaware you become one of hundreds of thousands of ground stations updating the global network. The Raspberry Pi system is easy to build and operate and cheap. It used to only cost $40-$60 to get going but prices have increased quite a bit but $1-200 is still pretty cheap.