Virtual Radar Server allows you to host your own, web based, ADS-B plotter. It will provide a webpage showing the location of, and information on, aircraft that are transmitting ADS-B messages. These messages, of course, have to be received. Luckily this can be accomplished cheaply and easily. Check out some of the following links.
In my case I needed to be able to run the entire thing offline and had access to a pretty expensive uAvionix pingStation. So in this article, we'll be using Virtual Radar Server, a pingStation, a Debian 9 server, and a local Open Street Map tile server.
Download Virtual Radar 3D 1.1.4.10 from our software library for free. The Virtual Radar 3D installer is commonly called VirtualRadar.exe. The program belongs to Games. The most popular version among the program users is 1.1. The most recent installation package that can be downloaded is 49.2 MB in size. Nov 12, 2017 In this guide, I will explain how I set up the software application for an ADS-B receiver on a Raspberry Pi. I will also explain how to set up a Virtual Radar Server (VRS), which is a visual display of the received and decoded aircraft data. I have set up my own Virtual Radar Server here and have written about ADS-B here. To set this up.
- Log in to your Debian 9 server as a user capable of running the sudo command
- Make sure your system is up to date by running and
- Install the Apache Web Server and Mono Framework by running
- Note: If you're setting this up on an LXC container you'll get an error with avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns:amd64. This is OK. For our uses, this won't cause any problems.
- Create a new user for running Virtual Radar Server by running
The following actions will allow your users to visit http://MYSERVER and http://MYSERVER/admin to visit the main site and the admin site (respectively).
- Delete Apache's default landing page by running
- Create a new landing page that forwards to the main VRS site by running and entering the following
- Create a new page to redirect to the VRS admin site by running and enter the following
These steps are specific to the uAvionix pingStation. Other ADS-B receivers will setup slightly differently.


- visit http://pingstation-abcd (where abcd are the last 4 digits of your pingStation's MAC Address
- set Output Formats: to TCP Compressed VR
- set TCP Push IP Address or Hostname: to MYSERVER
- set TCP Port: to 30003
- click Update
- Switch to the new virtradar user (starting in their home folder) by running
- Create a new directory for VRS, and move into it, by running
- Download the latest copy of VRS by running
- Extract the contents by running
- Delete the compressed file by running
- Download the WebAdmin plugin by running
- Extract the contents by running
- Delete the compressed file by running
- Start VRS and create an Admin User by running
- for subsequent runs use
- Visit http://MYSERVER:8080/VirtualRadar/WebAdmin/Settings.html and login as admin/PASSWORD
- Click Receivers
- Click the green Edit icon for Receiver
- Change Name: to pingStation
- Change Format: to Compressed VRS
- Change Connection type: to Network
- Check Push receiver
- Set Port: to 30003
- Click the X to exit the Edit screen
- Scroll to the top of the Options page and click Save
- First you'll need to have a local Open Street Maps Tile Server. You can follow my OSM Tile Server How To to make your own. I'm going to assume that it is locally available at http://map.
- log in to your Virtual Radar Server
- Switch to the VRS user by running
- Create a custom TileServerSettings file to add your local Tile Server to VRS's drop down list by running and fill in the file with and then save & exit nano by hitting Ctrl+C and then Y
- Start your VRS instance by running
- Visit http://MYSERVER:8080/VirtualRadar/WebAdmin/Settings.html and login as admin/PASSWORD
- Click Options on the left
- Under Data Sources / Map Providers click the Tile server: drop down menu and select * Local OSM Tile Server
- Hit the Save button at the top
- Get back to your sudo user by running
- Create a new systemd service file by running and filling it in with
- Make sure systemd knows about your new file by running
- Enable your new service by running
- Start VRS by running
- Check the status of the VRS service by running
- Reboot your machine to make sure VRS starts on boot by running and visiting http://MYSERVER/
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