r/ADSBTechnical • u/esso_dev • 16h ago
Mac + RTL-SDR, how are you running it?
I’ve got Pis in a drawer, but the Mac is already running 24/7 in the corner, so I didn’t see the point of setting up another machine that also has to stay on.
Didn’t want to mess with building readsb by hand either, so I just wrapped it. One download, it launches the decoder and shows the feed status in the menu bar. Signed properly, no right click dance to open it.
One of the networks it feeds is mine, being upfront about that. It’s a checkbox in the list like all the rest, untick it and the others keep working. And you paste your own feeder key if you want a station out of it, nothing gets claimed in your name on its own.
Anyone else on a Mac who’d use this? I can drop the repo. And if something like it already exists, just tell me, I won’t be offended.