Wow, sorry for the slow reply. For some reason your comment never appeared in the moderation queue. Thanks for pointing out my configuration error! This has been corrected and you should now be able to see the source code again.

Lee

Thanks for your comments! dump1090 was said by the original author to need restarts; I can’t comment on why I just complied.

Squawkwatch will run for months without being touched 🙂

with the link to flightradar24 giving almost the same info instantly and the complexity (and lack of instructions) for setting up mysql db with this ginfo db (that also needs to be updated to keep current)
I adapted your script and removed all the parts were db access is required, I tested it with squawk 1000 (somehow a common code) and it seems to work. Setting up sendmail (using ssmtp really) was in fact the largest task. Why would the frequent restart be required, is it memory usage? If little events happen (I only alert on codes 7500,7600, 7700) can I skip this? Many thanks for this script, it’s rudimentary but seems to do the job!

greetings,

Harm

This is certainly do-able, from an abstract point of view. I can’t see it causing much of an additional overhead on the script. Watch this space! 🙂

Dan,

I found it online – I can’t remember where now. I think it was really obvious, like a google for ‘CAA G-INFO download’ or something. It seemed official enough and there was no license with it so assumed it was fair game to use for a fun open source project!