niall7459/scope1090

Simple swing app based off interfaces seen in movies and video games

Scope1090

scope1090 is a simple swing app inspired by the old-fashioned radars seen in movies and games, written in Kotlin. Being written in a JVM compatible language allows for high portability between multiple operating systems and does not require any compilation to run.

Features

• Fading effect on the dots
• Set the speed of the rotating line
• Zoom the view in/out
• Rotate the view

Installation

Windows Installation

1. Download Java 8 or newer from https://www.java.com/en/download/
2. Download the latest scope1090 jar archive from the Releases tab
3. Open a command prompt in the same location you downloaded scope1090
4. Run java -jar scope1090-1.0-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar --lat=(your latitude) --lon=(your longitude) to start scope1090

Linux, Raspberry Pi

1. Download Java 8 or newer by running apt-get install default-jre
2. Download the latest scope1090 jar archive from the Releases tab
3. Open a terminal window and navigate to where scope1090 is located
4. Run java -jar scope1090-1.0-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar --lat=(your latitude) --lon=(your longitude) to start scope1090

MacOS / OSX

1. Download Java 8 or newer from https://www.java.com/en/download/
2. Download the latest scope1090 jar archive from the Releases tab
3. Open a terminal window and navigate to where scope1090 is located
4. Run java -jar scope1090-1.0-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar --lat=(your latitude) --lon=(your longitude) to start scope1090

Remember to check the version you have downloaded, you will need to adjust the command for this. These examples use 1.0-SNAPSHOT.

scope1090 is not fully tested on a retina display and may render blurry or pixelated.

Performance

Scope1090 will work well on any modern computer. Where applicable, Improvements have been put in place to increase performance on low-end devices such as a raspberry pi, for example, text, range markers, and the gauge, are all cached between repaints.

Customise Options

You may customise how the app looks using the following command line arguments, an example:

java -jar scope1090-1.1-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar --lat=0.0 --lon=-0.0 --sbs=127.0.0.1:30003 --rpm=30

Option	Description
--lat	Latitude of center of scope (required)
--lon	Longitude of center of scope (required)
--sbs	Define a SBS data source connection in the format --sbs=127.0.0.1:30003
--adsbx	Use an ADSBX API Key --adsbx=(your api key)
--hd	Enable high quality rendering hints
--rpm	Revolutions per minute of the rotating line. Default: 36. Set to 0 to disable sweep
--fade	Set the amount of seconds for a dot to disappear after being passed
--color	The colour (expressed as a hexadecimal, #00FF00) to use for the display
--markers	Distance (in kilometres) of the range markers. Default: 50. Set to 0 to disable
--nocursor	Remove the north-facing dashed cursor
--nobuttons	Disable the left and right buttons
--fullscreen	Open's the window in fullscreen

Example

java -jar scope1090-1.1-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar --lat=0.0 --lon=-0.0 --sbs=127.0.0.1:30003 --hd --fade=2 --markers=10 --fullscreen --nocursor --nobuttons

You may disable the rotating line by setting --rpm=0 as a command line argument. The fade will be based on the time elapsed since a dot last moved. Disable the fading effect altogether using: --fade=0

Controls

Action	Description
Mouse Wheel	Increase or decrease the range of the viewport
Mouse Wheel + CTRL	Rotate the view clockwise/anti-clockwise

Notice

This is not a real radar, it is simply a graphical interface built to look like the ones you see in movies, it will not show anything by default unless you input it with some data.