tbg.airframes.io

[thebaldgeek]

Fun day....
Added still more speed to the site search.
Added * wildcard to the text area.
Fixed the search page trackmap links.
Fixed the other table trackmap links, but it will take days for the fix to migrate through all the rows.
Restored the 143e STDC feed.
Fixed a bug in the way the search database was being trimmed, it was not always trimming to 120 hours.
Re-jigged the layout of the E6 page. Not happy with it. Any suggestions?
Washed my car.

[XWP29]

Fun day....
Added still more speed to the site search.
Added * wildcard to the text area.
Fixed the search page trackmap links.
Fixed the other table trackmap links, but it will take days for the fix to migrate through all the rows.
Restored the 143e STDC feed.
Fixed a bug in the way the search database was being trimmed, it was not always trimming to 120 hours.
Re-jigged the layout of the E6 page. Not happy with it. Any suggestions?
Washed my car.

Thank you a truly awesome info hub. Much appreciated.

[thebaldgeek]

Just discovered an interesting side effect of the trackmap page link fix.....
It's now possible to craft a URL and have it call up the trackmap page in an browser from that URL.

That means you can string up to about 400 ICAO hex's into one URL and put it in your browser and pull up 4 maps for that URL.
Note that I have dropped two of the ADSB sites off the page. 6 was just getting to sluggish for most browsers.
The 4 maps are either watermarked center bottom by each website, or have their name on the side panel, so you can tell what you are looking at.

Random example flight:
https://tbg.airframes.io/trackmap/dashb ... 708&zoom=3
Depending on the speed of your browser and my server, you still might need to heed the trick noted on the site, if you see the Node-RED logo, click on the text area with the url and press enter.
Not all options in the URL are needed of course, but put them there to show the art of the possible.

I still want to add more one click red buttons of lists you might have in mind (the 'bizjetsofwar' guy is going to hook me up with a list soon), but now you have your own custom lists of bookmarks etc.

A welcome side effect.

[thebaldgeek]

The site is currently down and has been for over 3 hours.
Contacted the data center and they said they are working on it.
It's very frustrating as its not my code that broke it for once and so its all out of my hands to get it back up and running.
I do enough work in IT to know you cant give an ETA, but I also wish I knew the issue.

Sorry. Its them. Not me.
Hurry up and wait.

[thebaldgeek]

Website is back up.

Everything is starting from zero.
I'm busy doing the usual cold start housekeeping, but its back up.

About time.
Still no word what the issue was.

[XWP29]

Website is back up.

Everything is starting from zero.
I'm busy doing the usual cold start housekeeping, but its back up.

About time.
Still no word what the issue was.

Mil USAF is not loading for me here this morning.

[thebaldgeek]

Mil USAF is not loading for me here this morning.

Thanks. Your right. It was broken since the restart.
Sorry about that. Found and fixed the issue.
I applied the same fix to the MMC pages that were not showing arrival and depart airport codes.

For those interested, the splitting of the sites seems to have tickled an interesting quirk (bug?) in Node-RED where the main data base (read / write) can come up after the split-site (read only) database.
This causes the sub-site to silently block data base access.
I think I need to better stagger the cold start of the main and sub-sites a lot more carefully.

Seems no speed bump goes unpunished.
Have I mentioned lately that I have no idea what I am doing and I really should not be doing any of this?

[thebaldgeek]

Found an odd bug with the trackmap page.
I was using 'icaofilter' as suggested back in this thread, but it was dropping a lot of aircraft out of each of my group buttons.
Have removed it for now. The side effect is that the side bar is back on the left, I tried adding the setting to remove it, but it is still there.
For now, I'd rather have the correct aircraft shown on the maps and the side bar vs very few aircraft and no sidebar.

Feedback welcome.