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ESP8266 Plane Spotter Color
This is the repository of the ESP8266 Plane Spotter Color. It downloads data from web APIs and displays aircrafts close to your location on a map.
Hardware
This code is made for an 240x320 65K ILI9341 display with code running on an ESP8266. Since it was sometimes complicated to find the right parts I created a kit which contains all the parts including the connector PCB: https://blog.squix.org/product/esp8266-wifi-color-display-kit-2-4 By buying the kit from me you are supporting future development. Thank you!
The related blog post
https://blog.squix.org/2017/01/esp8266-planespotter-color.html
Video
Features
- Beautiful startup splash screen
- Automatic geo location by using WiFi scanning. List of visible SSIDs identifies your location
- Automatic download of JPEGs from MapQuest
- Detailed information about the nearest aircraft
- Flight track: last 20 waypoints per aircraft displayed
Planed Features
- Enable touch screen
- Zoom in/out by button
- shift map center
- call location service again
- select aircraft of interest
- only download map if center of map, scale or map type changed
Known Issues
- Flickering with every update: not enough memory for frame/ double buffering
- Sometimes waypoints get lost
- Encoding problems when displaying airport names containing non-ASCII characters (e.g. Zürich)
Hardware Requirements
This project was built for the following hardware:
- ESP8266 Wifi chip, especially with the Wemos D1 Mini, but all other ESP8266 modules should work as well.
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