ADSBEx
Behind the backs of contributors, feeders and the whole community,
ADSBexchange.com has been sold
to a hedgefund for $20Mio. [1][2]
Please visit www.airplanes.live instead!
It’s community operated, without the risk of your valuable data being used for corporate profit.
Feeders:
If you are feeding adsbexchange.com, please consider switching your feed over to airplanes.live. Here is a simple how-to:
1. Connect to your feeder with SSH.
2. Remove the feed scripts for adsbexchange.com:
sudo systemctl disable --now adsbexchange-feed.service
sudo systemctl disable --now adsbexchange-mlat.service
sudo systemctl disable --now adsbexchange-stats.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/adsbexchange-feed.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/adsbexchange-mlat.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/adsbexchange-stats.service
sudo systemctl mask adsbexchange-feed.service
sudo systemctl mask adsbexchange-mlat.service sudo systemctl mask adsbexchange-stat3. Add the feed scripts for adsb.fi:
curl -L -o /tmp/feed.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/airplanes-live/feed/main/install.sh
sudo bash /tmp/feed.sh 4. (Optional) Add the local interface to your feeder:
sudo bash /usr/local/share/airplanes/git/install-or-update-interface.sh5. That’s it! Thank you for contributing to the community effort! As a reward, have this cookie: 🍪
For more information, please visit the adsb.fi github (https://github.com/airplanes-live/feed) or join the airplanes.live Discord server.
Sources:
[1] https://hackaday.com/2023/01/26/ads-b-exchange-sells-up-contributors-unhappy/