[acao-it] ACAO Tracking Protocol

[Thomas Sevaldrud]

This is great, Daniele! We have contact with the tracking server and
receive data from it, so this looks promising :-)

We will get back to you with more detailed feedback when we have had the
chance to test some more.

- Thomas

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Daniele Orlandi <daniele at orlandi.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I unfortunately have been overwhelmed by various work emergencies...
> hopefully the situation will get better soon :(
>
>
> On 06/07/2015 15:52, Thomas Sevaldrud wrote:
> >
> > * We need a polling server which we can query for the full history of
> > each flight in order to do competition scoring
>
> Such server is now available:
>
> - It is located at ACAO
> - It is written in Ruby on Rails
> - It run on a Linux VM on small XenServer cluster
> - The connectivity is good but a bit worse than the one available at the
> datacenter.
> - The data is stored by our master (collector) daemon in a PostgreSQL
> database and retrived by the Rails application.
> - I kept the URL names equal to the ones described but they can be
> changed arbitrarily
> - Tracks are stored for long time, at least a month, so there is plenty
> of data to test with.
>
> Currently only the receiving station at the field is connected, it has a
> medium-good antenna located 10 meters above the ground but should be
> enough to give you an idea of the quality of data.
>
> These are the URLs to access the tracking interface:
>
> http://tracking-test.acao.it/sw/getprotocolinfo.php
> http://tracking-test.acao.it/sw/getactivecontests.php
>
> http://tracking-test.acao.it/sw/gettrackerdata.php?starttime=20150722090000&endtime=20150722180000&trackerid=4114
>
> > * This polling server should associate the relevant flights for a
> > competition day with the task/pilot info, preferrably through a SeeYou
> > CUC file as specified in the existing Silent Wings/vPos protocol.
>
> Okay, however at the moment my SeeYou installation is non-functional so
> I have some difficulty producing the CUC file. Anyway the server
> supports the serving of such data.
>
> > * The server could also have a way of simply listing all flights that
> > are active so we can test this without having to set up a competition
> > for all the gliders.
>
> I created an URL to retrive the active flights for each day. The
> response is JSON-encoded however I can adapt it to a format you can
> parse more easily. The URL is the following:
>
> http://tracking-test.acao.it/sw/get_planes_by_day
>
> A web visualization JS application is available at:
>
> http://ror.acao.it/radar
>
> It is still in development and has known issues.
> Note that during the competition a similar application will be
> accessible from the internal privileged networks while the one available
> to the public will be limited to the local area.
>
> Let me know of any issue/request/information you may be needing.
>
> Thank you,
> Bye,
>
> --
>   Daniele Orlandi
>
>
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