Welcome to py1090’s documentation!

This is the documentation of the py1090 project. The source can be found in the GitHub Repostiory.

Warning

The API is still in alpha state. I am currently making huge changes to support other ADS-B message than only the BaseStation ones. Proceed with caution until a stable version is released.

Contents:

• Using the library
  • Running dump1090
  • Running RTL1090
• API documentation
  • TCP Connection
  • BaseStation Message
  • Collection of flights
• Helper Functions
  • Constants
  • Position geometry
  • Unit conversion
• Examples of py1090
  • Recording messages to a file
  • Plotting paths on a Matplotlib Basemap map
  • Creating a polar antenna plot using Matplotlib
• License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page