ADS-B Flight Feed to Coreflux Topics

How it works

This Coreflux LoT template polls the free adsb.lol v2 REST API every minute for aircraft within 25 nm of Minneapolis. It validates each response, fans up to three aircraft into per-hex topics, and publishes a count plus a summary report.

Key features

• Minute polling: A self-starting heartbeat triggers the feed once per minute.
• REST API ingest: Pulls JSON from api.adsb.lol with no API key.
• Aircraft fan-out: Publishes callsign, type, position, altitude, and speed under demo/flights/aircraft/<hex>/....
• Metric and aviation twins: Stores canonical SI values plus altitude_ft and velocity_kt.
• Summary model: Publishes a collapsed FlightsSummary document after each poll.
• Safe parsing: Checks total and aircraft fields as strings before numeric conversion.

Prerequisites

• Internet egress from Coreflux
• REST_API route support
• Access to publish actions and models