Basestation
The SBS-1 ships with the Basestation application providing an on-screen
virtual radar display. This powerful application provides functionality including identification
of aircraft by callsign, altitude, speed and other parameters where such information is
transmitted. All flights and sessions are recorded in a database, which can be separately browsed (and reported on) by a new application, the BaseStation Reporter.
SBS-1 Basestation can be customised by
adding waypoint and outline information available from the forums: www.kinetic-avionics.co.uk/forums
Key Features
Virtual Radar
The SBS-1 ships with the SBS-1 Basestation application providing a radar screen style vector scope display
Aircraft Identification
This powerful application provides functionality including the identification of aircraft by callsign, altitude, speed and other parameters where such information is transmitted.
Extensible
The application uses a received aircraft's unique Mode S hex code to retrieve manufacturer, ownership, configuration and other background information from user sharable and editable XML datafiles. This information is readily available from public domain aviation websites worldwide
Reporting Tool
The latest version of SBS-1 Basestation stores flight and session data in a SQL Lite database. This data can be accessed with the BaseStation Reporter utility
3-D
The powerful software allows single or multiple aircraft to be tracked in three dimensions.
Log files
The application can be set to log all received data to disk for later importation into a database for further query manipulation.
Waypoints
The application allows for waypoints or points of interest to be entered and displayed on the vector scope making it easier to determine if an aircraft has flown over or near a location. All distance calculations are made using Great Circle methodology for accuracy.
Lastest Features
The latest version of Basestation, features a major new features and improvements
Database/Other Applications
- All flights and sessions are recorded in a database, which can be separately browsed (and reported on) by a new application, the BaseStation Reporter. This gives much more flexibility in the use of the data and means that people no longer have to kludge "daily reports" by setting the data timeouts to 24 hours.
- The new BaseStation Logger application can log all received messages to log files that can then be analysed using applications such as Microsoft Excel.
- The new SBS Link Tester application can be used to troubleshoot setup problems.
For 3rd Party Developers
Developers of 3rd party applications can interface with BaseStation much more easily (and more powerfully) by means of two new methods:
- The database, which uses the open source engine SQLite.
- The data socket, which outputs a stream of information that applications can "listen" to.
Many applications have already been developed to take advantage of the new Snoopy interfaces, among them:
- SBSPopulate - which fills and manages the database.
- BSAlert - which uses the socket interface to alert you to the appearance of aircraft that you are interested in.
Screen Shots
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| Screen shot with key | 'Modern Art' from SBS-1 | Registration data inset |
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| Virtual Radar and aircraft list | Aircraft details screen |