FLIGHTAWARE screensaver almost live - here it is...

[av8rbama]

Any of you techie types know how to make it fit to both screens of a dual monitor system? I tried changing the width to 2560 to fit 2 1024x1280 and best I can do is a small strip down the center of my left monitor. If it makes any difference, it's a nvidia quadro fx1400 card.

 

[gearjockey]

mine quit working

It worked until last night when I tried to show somebody the same saver. I get the map without the traffic update. Wondering if I need to register at flightaware. Anybody?

 

[satpak77]

FLightaware data feed was down last night, it should be working now

 

[JumpJetter]

I'm not getting the data feed. Any ideas. Great hack job BTW!

JJ

 

[JumpJetter]

bump...cause this thing is so frackin' cool

 

[SuperFLUF]

It seems as though the url to get the map changes regularly.

The original post used a url of map3.flightaware.com...etc. When I set mine up the url in the original post did not work. I went to the website and brought up IAH, when I checked the url of the map it had changed to map1.flightaware......
Today I got back from a trip and It was not working so I checked and see its map3.flightaware..... again.

Anyone know how to work around this?

 

[satpak77]

Flightaware had some data feed issues a few days back, try to "new" URL and see if it works. Bring up the map/"radar" image and right click on it, go to properties, and the URL is listed there

 

[JumpJetter]

Anybody know how to "tweak" the code so it follows a particular tail number/ flight number? That would be sneaky.

JJ

 

[Low Timer]

May be a dumb question, but I can't find the answer. What is the difference between the green and blue data blocks?

Thanks

 

[JumpJetter]

Green are aircraft in the AREA of the airport you have selected. Blue are aircraft that are arriving or departing at the airport you have selected.

 

[Low Timer]

Green are aircraft in the AREA of the airport you have selected. Blue are aircraft that are arriving or departing at the airport you have selected.

Thanks!

 

[GravityHater]

Its great!
but there must be an Air Hold in place at DFW because I typed in 5 seconds and I don't see any motion.

Also still have a stripe at the top of my screen that changing the height does not fix (it just adds more off the bottom of the screen I think. (I have pasted in the fix code mentioned earlier)

Thank-yuh!

 

[JumpJetter]

Its great!
but there must be an Air Hold in place at DFW because I typed in 5 seconds and I don't see any motion.

Well first of all, the sweep on the radar is probably at least 5 secs. I would think updating any less than 20 secs would not show any changes....

 

[difete]

Nice

Nice guys, with this my wife can know where I am at all times!! :laugh:

 

[satpak77]

hope everybody likes it, I run the KDFW display with DFW ATC real audio in the background

that makes me an official nerd