ADSB

The ADSB PHY defines a websocket endpoint for obtaining a live stream of ADSB data in the binary BEAST format expected by some tools.

ADSB BEAST websocket

• URL

  /phy/RTLADSB/beast.ws

• API Added

  2020-11

• Methods

  WEBSOCKET (HTTP Upgrade + Websocket handshake)

• Role

  readonly, ADSB

• Result

  Streaming websocket output of ADSB data in BEAST format.

• Notes

  This can be transformed into a TCP socket for external tools which expect that via the websocat tool, for example:

    $ websocat ws://user:password@kismet-server-ip/phy/RTLADSB/beast.ws | nc -l 12345
  

ADSB raw hex websocket

• URL

  /phy/RTLADSB/raw.ws

• API Added

  2020-11

• Methods

  WEBSOCKET (HTTP Upgrade + Websocket handshake)

• Role

  readonly, ADSB

• Result

  Streaming websocket output of ADSB data in hex format which matches the output format of dump1090 --raw

• Notes

  This can be easily dumped to tools which process hex ADSB streams with the websocat tool, for example:

    $ websocat ws://user:password@kismet-server-ip/phy/RTLADSB/raw.ws | some_tool...
  

ADSB raw hex websocket per-source

• URL

  /datasource/by-uuid/[UUID]/adsb_raw.ws

• API Added

  2021-01

• Methods

  WEBSOCKET (HTTP Upgrade + Websocket handshake)

• Role

  readonly, ADSB

• Result

  Streaming websocket output of ADSB data in hex format which matches the output format of dump1090 --raw. The feed is restricted to the specified source.

• Notes

  This can be easily dumped to tools which process hex ADSB streams with the websocat tool, for example:

    $ websocat ws://user:password@kismet-server-ip/phy/RTLADSB/raw.ws | some_tool...