Daniel Eichhorn
I received a few complaints that users couldn’t get the Platformio IDE running since the security software detected it as malicious software. So I added the code also to the WeatherStation library as a demo project.
First you’ll have to install or update the library and make sure that you have at least version 1.1.1 installed. Then you can simply go to
Files > Examples > ESP8266 Weather Station > PlaneSpotterDemo
And you’ll have a template for your own PlaneSpotter project. Read the original article for more detail.
Bethsalem presented a nice and simple enclosure for the PlaneSpotter over at RadarSpotting. Thank you for sharing!
BTW: this project is also mentioned in my new eBook: ESP8266 Weather Station: Getting Started Guide
Hi Daniel.
I have a problem: the plane spotter is not working from a couple of days.
Did virtual radar change something recently?
It finds no planes…
Thanks for the nice work!!
Ciao!!
I have the same problem as Federico. I built this project several months ago and it worked great! But now it’s just hooked to the web and never gets any flight responses. I can see the requests going out in the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE, but never any response back. I am also suspicious something changed at the virtual radar server website. Anyone know how to fix it?
OK I looked around a little more and came across an earlier post on this same blog at:
http://blog.squix.org/2016/07/esp8266-based-plane-spotter-how-to.html
Then a person commenting Oliver said the following, which worked for me. This supporting file called AdsbExchangeClient.cpp must be modified so that you are now making requests on a secure port 443 instead of port 80, like this:
for connectiing to adsb-exchange you need to edit the AdsbexchangeClient.cpp (I am working in arduino-IDE).
Go to line 11 and change WifiClient to WifiClientSecure
Go to line 18 and edit httPort, change 80 to 443
Upload again to your ESP8266 and it should work again. — Thanks Oliver!!
Found it, thanks to a very good friend quite strong in debugging.
In “AdsbExchangeclient.cpp”,
“WiFiClient client” should be “WiFiClientSecure client”
and a few lines below “httpPort = 80” should be “httpPort = 443”
The site moved from http to https…
Ciao!!