adsb-receiver/CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG ✈️

The following is a history of the changes made to this project.

template branch

• Greatly improved the template system used by the web portal.
• Vistitors to the web portal can be alerted to the presence of aircraft using specified flight numbers.
• The user is now asked if they wish to bind dump1090-mutability to all IP addresses.
• Users can now choose to display range graph distances in nautical miles.
• Performance graph image sizes have been standardized.

February 5th, 2016

• Raspbian Jessie Lite image available for testing.
• Added script to configure pre installed images.
• Added ADS-B Message Rate/Aircraft/Second graph.

January 28th, 2016

• The files making up the portal website have been overhauled completely.
• Added a web based administration area which can be used to modify portal settings.
• A simple blog system has been added which is functional but beta quality at best at this time.
• A template system for the portal has been added which will over time evolve into a more user friendly system.
• There is now a messages/aircraft/second graph displayed on the performance graphs web page.
• Users can now specify the distance of range rings displayed on the dump1090 map during installation.
• Uses the package collectd-core instead of collectd to eliminate the installation of unneeded packages.
• Added modified the dump1090-mutability HTML files to be used as a dump978 map to the portal.
• Added the ability to specify the heywhatsthat.com range rings ranges.

January 20th, 2016

• Added the ability to build and execute dump978.

January 14th, 2016

• When the portal is installed the argument --measure-noise is added to the dump1090-mutability init script.
• Added "noise" level line and information to the signal level performance graph.

January 8th, 2016

• The dump1090-mutability install Script now asks user for the latitude and longitude of the feeder.
• Dump1090-mutability is now set to listen for BEAST input on port 30104.
• PiAware is no longer configured to send MLAT data over port 30001.
• Behind the scenes work mainly dealling with cleaning up the scripting a little.
• Consolidated software version variables into a single file.
• The CheckPackage function is no longer repeatative throughout all the scripts needing it.
• Added the ChangeConfig function as a way to easily change settings stored in a configuration file.
• Removed the ability to use rpi-updater to update Raspberry Pi firmware from the scripts.

January 5th, 2016

• The PiAware 2.1-5-jessie tag is now used when installing the PiAware software to address certificate errors.
• There is a known issue with upgrade detection for PiAware since changing to the 2.1-5-jessie tag.
• Fixed PiAware mlatResultsFormat setting were not being set on clean installations.
• Changes relating to Orange Pi compatability mainly pertaining to prerequisite packages.

December 29th, 2015

• Now asks if the user wishes to reinstall dump1090-mutability.
• Added ability to upgrade FlightAware's PiAware if a newer verison is available.
• Added ability to upgrade the Plane Finder ADS-B Client if a newer version is available.
• PiAware mlatResultsFormat setting is no longer reset when ran more than once.

December 25th, 2015

• Scripts now properly detect if an ADS-B Exchange sharing has already set up.
• The PiAware 2.1-5 tag is now used when installing the PiAware software.
• Added link to portal pointing to the local Plane Finder ADS-B Client web interface.
• The path to Lighttpd's root directory is now read from the Lighttpd configuration.

December 23st, 2015

• Terrain limitation data able to be downloaded for display in the dump1090 map.
• Added check to make sure whiptail is installed.

December 21rd, 2015

• Can now choose to install only certain items while leaving others out.
• Uses whiptail dialogs during the intital portion of the setup.
• Data sharing options are now presented in multiple choice form.
• Does not display installation options for software already installed.
• Dump1090-mutability map now positioned correctly within the map page.
• Removed option to install the MalcolmRobb version of dump1090.

December 16th, 2015

• Bandwidth graph now displays information for the eth0 interface by default.
• Script halts if critical packages do not install.
• Script halts if prerequisite packages are not installed within 5 attempts.
• The piaware_builder source is now ran from the v2.1-3 tag.
• Renamed the collectd folder to graphs.
• Added navigation header to the Dump1090 map.
• Added adsbexchange-maint.sh to this repository.
• Performance graph cron jobs moved to file located in /etc/cron.d.
• Can share data to ADS-B Exchange without PiAware installed.
• Plane Finder ADS-B Client package now installs on Debian x86_64.
• Plane Finder ADS-B Client package now installs on Ubuntu x86_64.