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Comment by zymhan | Hacker News Reader

Please don't use antirez dump1090, that is the original code base and has long since been forked into much more thorough projects.

This is a popular and up-to-date fork: https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090

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As a newbie to all this radio fun, I setup my little rig using antirez's dump1090...Why? ...Because on github the antirez repo actually has instructions on usage (not only installation/setup). Also - and likely more important - upon conducting online searching for dump1090 setups, the search engines point to (or at least did back a few months ago when i first set my rig up) tutorials that used/referenced antirez's software. Sure, those tutorials might be a little dated...but hey, at least they helped me - again, a newb with all this - to get going. I don't mean any offense to the flightaware folks, but if they included usage instructions (and other info) that might go a long way with other newbies like myself. (The irony is not lost on me that all of this software is free, and I'm politely asking for "more info"...but hey ;-)

The forks are functionally better but missed the point. Dump1090 created this large community because the code was well written. Forks have a lot of mess inside. Anyway I updated my code a few weeks ago to switch to open street maps.

Thanks for the link. I typically link to the original project and leave it to the user to discovery forks that may be better tailored for their use.

LOL link to 12 year old code that is not updated :D

Whens someone asks for a glass of water, do you also drive them to the mountains and point at the rain clouds?

https://github.com/mictronics/readsb

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