We built this display around one idea: the sky above your home is yours to watch, and the data that shows it to you should be too — from the instant it leaves the airplane’s antenna all the way to your screen. Here’s what that meant for how it’s made.
The aircraft overhead are broadcasting their position constantly, on 1090 MHz — a signal called ADS-B. Your display listens for it directly, with its own antenna and software-defined radio, and decodes those broadcasts itself. What appears on screen is the sky exactly as it is right now, picked out of the air where you stand — not relayed to you second-hand through an aggregator.
Because the signal is received and decoded on the device, you own all of that data from the moment it leaves the airplane. It never has to leave your home to be displayed. There is no account to create, no cloud service in the middle, and nothing quietly sending your view of the sky off to someone else.
There is no third-party data feed anywhere in the display path. That means no API keys, no rate limits, no monthly usage caps, and no dependence on someone else’s server staying online — or staying friendly. Free-tier limits and shifting terms of service simply are not part of the picture. Your display cannot be throttled or shut off from the outside, because there is no outside in the loop.
The map tiles live on the device, and the whole thing is designed to keep working with no network at all. It reaches out only for the things that genuinely benefit from it — software updates, richer route information, and remote support if you ever want a hand. Everything essential runs on the hardware in front of you, which is what lets it keep doing its job long after the trends have moved on.
No feed to depend on, no limits to run into, nothing that can be turned off from somewhere else. Just your antenna, the sky, and a display made to last.