qt-adsb-alert

qt-adsb-alert fetches informations from ADS-B exchange website and sends a mail when interesting planes are near home

Releases

For Windows, you can download latest release (v1.0.0) here:

• https://github.com/nefethael/qt-adsb-alert/releases/download/v1.0.0/qt-adsb-alert-v1.0.0.zip

Settings

Settings are made in setup.ini file which resides in same folder as application.

• SMTP

Only gmail smtp is supported, which will probably need a token from https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

In following example, commenting userSmtp disables email notification.

;userSmtp=Spotter Fan
passSmtp=<gmail token>
emailSmtp=adsb.spotter.fan@gmail.com

• Notify.run

You can also by notified by https://notify.run, you need to create a channel and then put the name channel in setup file (commenting disabled this notify system)

;notifyrun=lnW0LiQwmGKZNtheTkIm

• Pushbullet

You can be notified by https://www.pushbullet.com/, you need to create an "Access Token" in settings.

;pushbullet_user=adsb.spotter.fan@gmail.com
;pushbullet_token=o.ABC

• Telegram

You can be notified by Telegram, you need to:

1. create a channel
2. create a bot (send a message to @BotFather and follow instruction) and save token
3. invite bot in channel
4. retrieve chat id see here

Then complete setup.ini with corresponding informations:

;telegram_token=123:ABC
;telegram_chat=-666

• Home location

Set your latitude, longitude, altitude with corresponding values, for example for Bordeaux city:

home_lat=44.835
home_lon=-0.536
home_alt=0

• Tiles

ADSB Exchange loads information from different tiles, you can see which tiles are used for your location by inspecting website networking requests. In this example, we load France South-West zone

tiles=0016,6384,6505

Scripting

qt-adsb-alert can send a mail when aircraft matches some conditions. These conditions are scriptable (javascript) and resides in sendMail.mjs file. In the following example, we will alert if aircraft is closer than 50km or if it is closer than 100km and pointing toward home (+- 20°)

export function sendAlert()
{
    var distOk = (distanceToMe < 50000) || ((distanceToMe < 100000) && (gettingCloser < 20))
    return distOk                     // distance ok
}

Exposed variables are

• callsign
• hex
• typeCode
• typeDesc
• dbFlags
• altitude
• groundSpeed
• mach
• ias
• heading
• registration
• squawk
• distanceToMe
• gettingCloser

Dependencies & Thanks

• OpenSSL for HTTPS (on windows you need libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll and libssl-1_1-x64.dll)
• https://github.com/bluetiger9/SmtpClient-for-Qt included at commit 3fa4a0fe5797
• https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090-db/blob/master/db/icao_aircraft_types2.js included at commit bb59b7144a
• https://github.com/wiedehopf/readsb for binary structures