VIEW1090-MUTABILITY(1)
π VIEW1090-MUTABILITY π
okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for view1090-mutability, which lives in section 1 of the User Commands β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
view1090-mutability β the text client for dump1090, no cap π
π SYNOPSIS π
view1090-mutability
view1090-mutability --net-bo-ipaddr ipaddr --net-bo-port port
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
okay so here's the vibe: view1090-mutability lets you connect to a TCP Beast compliant stream and then view the decoded messages in an ASCII-text table. that's literally it, that's the whole thing, and honestly? iconic π«Ά
β¨ OPTIONS β¨
the supported options are, in order, as follows:
--interactiveβ displays what you received in a textual table, in real-time. live updates, main character energy π₯--interactive-rowsnum β max number of rows in interactive mode (default:15)--interactive-ttlsec β remove from the list if it's been idle for sec (default:60)--interactive-rtl1090β display the flight table in RTL1090 format--modeacβ enable decoding of SSR Modes 3/A & 3/C--net-bo-ipaddrIPv4 β TCP Beast server address (default:127.0.0.1)--net-bo-portport β TCP Beast server port (default:30005)--latlatitude β reference/receiver latitude for surface posn (opt)--lonlongitude β reference/receiver longitude for surface posn (opt)--fixβ enable single-bits error correction using CRC--no-fixβ disable single-bits error correction using CRC--no-crc-checkβ disable messages with broken CRC (discouraged) π--aggressiveβ more CPU for more messages (two bits fixes, ...)--metricβ use metric units (meters, km/h, ...) π--helpβ show help
ngl, --no-crc-check is right there in the "discouraged" pile for a reason. proceed with caution, bestie π
π EXAMPLES π
the most basic usage is with no flags at all, which will connect to the dump1090 instance running on the local host.
view1090-mutability
to connect to a remote instance you can specify the IPv4 address of that host.
view1090-mutability --net-bo-ipaddr ipaddr
π BUGS π
report bugs with the program to the project's github page <https://github.com/mutability/dump1090/>
π AUTHORS π
Dump1090 was originally written by Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@gmail.com>. This version is now maintained by Oliver Jowett <oliver@mutability.co.uk>. This manpage was prepared for Debian by Matthew Ernisse <mernisse@ub3rgeek.net>.
okay that's the whole page, you ate that π this version of view1090-mutability(1) is dated 17 August 2014, so it's giving vintage but make it slay β¨ mwah, go decode some messages ππ§
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: dump1090-mutability 1.15~20180310.4a16df3+dfsg-8.1 Β· BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: dump1090-mutability 1.15~20180310.4a16df3+dfsg-8 Β· BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: dump1090-mutability 1.15~20180310.4a16df3+dfsg-8.1build1 Β· BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: dump1090-mutability 1.15~20180310.4a16df3+dfsg-8.1build2 Β· BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: dump1090-mutability 1.15~20180310.4a16df3+dfsg-8.2ubuntu1 Β· BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- Copyright (c) 2014 Matthew John Ernisse <mernisse@ub3rgeek.net>
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