This project isn't so much a library as it is a demonstration of how to poll PiAware Dump1090 parse the data. PiAware is a FlightAware client program that runs on a Raspberry Pi to securely transmit dump1090 ADS-B and Mode S data to FlightAware. In simple terms: it receives position, altitude, and speed from aircraft.

The main place where this project might save people time is the log1090 object model. It is a go struct with json decorations for simple parsing.

To use this, see main.go. Briefly:

   resp, err := http.Get("http://some_host/dump1090-fa/data/aircraft.json")
   if err != nil {
   	log.Fatal("Unable to get data ", err)
   }

   body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
   if err != nil {
   	log.Fatal("Unable to read body ", err)
   }

   var report Report
   err = json.Unmarshal(body, &report)

Report is an object that gives you an array of Aircraft objects with all the extracted info.

I'd like to reformulate into a useful library that can then be used by other things including telegraf, time permitting. Contributions (in the form of pull requests) are welcome.

Aircraft data comes from https://opensky-network.org/datasets/metadata/