yashmulgaonkar/FlightScnr_Pi
Desktop flight and marine radar: a real-time aircraft and marine vessel tracker powered by a Raspberry Pi and 4" round screen.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 8 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a real-time flight and marine vessel tracking radar system using a Raspberry Pi and a 4-inch round touch display.
- Enables local setup and control via a web portal without requiring SSH, featuring rich map layers, gesture navigation, and integrated LiveATC audio.
- Use for building a compact, standalone radar display for aviation enthusiasts to monitor aircraft and marine traffic live at home or office.
- Use for integrating weather, wildfire, and earthquake data overlays with live tracking for emergency response or environmental monitoring.
- Use for creating an interactive kiosk or educational tool demonstrating real-time ADS-B and AIS data visualization with touch controls.
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From the README
A round 4″ touch display flight and marine tracker for Raspberry Pi. Dark radar UI, animated sweep, map tiles, gesture navigation, LiveATC audio, and a local web portal for setup — no SSH required for day-to-day use. Modeled after FlightScnr.
FlightScnrPi Discord — community help, builds, and troubleshooting
Live aircraft (and optional marine traffic) on a circular radar, with rich detail screens when you tap. Powered by FR24, adsb.fi, optional local dump1090/readsb, Tomorrow.io weather, optional precipitation from LibreWXR (RainViewer fallback), optional route enrichment, USGS earthquakes, and wildfire layers (CAL FIRE / NIFC / NASA FIRMS). Configure everything from the web portal. Full detail: Features wiki.
Current release: 2026.8.21.2 on
main.Radar home, flight detail, tracked flight with route map, Follow / Live map, and clock / weather — swipe between them on the 720×720 round touch display. Swipe right on radar opens Tracked (when a track is active), then again for Follow / Live. Swipe left cycles Home and saved favorite locations.
Daily snapshots
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+198 stars over 60 days across 6 snapshot days; best day +10 on Aug 28.
Forks
53+18
Open issues
11+2
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