Fly Italy ADS-B New Receivers Notifier

A Python tool designed to send email notifications about user updates in an ADS-B network. This tool reads from a list of peers, detects changes and sends an email every day report detailing the differences.

Prerequisites

• A running instance of mlat-server. This tool reads from the clients.json generated by the server to identify peers.
• Python environment to execute the script.
• pytz Python library installed for timezone support.

  pip install pytz

Command-Line Flags Configuration

To configure the tool, use the following command-line flags:

• --from_email: Email address from which notifications will be sent.
• --to: Email address to which notifications will be sent.
• --server: SMTP server for sending the email.
• --port: SMTP server's port for sending the email. Default 465.
• --user: User for the SMTP server. If not specified, it defaults to the value provided in --from_email.
• --password: Password for the SMTP server.
• --timezone: The timezone you're operating in. Defaults to Europe/Rome if not specified.

You have also to create a symylink to /data/client.json or create a docker-volume.

Usage

1. Set up the environment variables mentioned above.
2. Run the script:

   python main.py --from_email [email protected] --to [email protected] --server smtp.example.com --user your_username --password your_password --timezone America/New_York

The script will constantly monitor the peer list and notify about any changes.

Docker Deployment

For convenience, this tool can also be deployed using Docker and Docker-Compose. Use the official image ghcr.io/flyitalyadsb/new_receivers_notifier.

Sample docker-compose configuration in docker-compose.yaml

Then, start the service with:

docker-compose up -d