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Yevgen Somochkin
"ΞΣΣΘ"
CTO ESSO.DEV
Building the Future of AI, Automation & Web3 | Full-stack & DevOps Architect | Scalable, Data-driven Web & Mobile Apps
Hamburg, Germany
An SDR stick, two minutes, no Raspberry Pi
Feeding ADS-B has always assumed a spare Raspberry Pi, an install script and a terminal, which is why most people who own an SDR stick have never fed anything with it.
This is a native menu bar app instead: plug the stick into the Mac you already use, run a two-minute wizard, and it is a receiving station. The decoder is bundled — no Docker, no terminal, no second computer.
Universal binary for Apple silicon and Intel. Updates carry our signature on top of Apple's notarisation, because the two answer different questions: notarisation says the file came from us and is clean, the update signature says this particular update is the one we published — a swapped file is refused even when it is served from our own domain.
Skydex sits in the same list of toggles as adsb.lol, airplanes.live, adsb.fi and ADSBExchange, with a field for anything else that takes a Beast stream — and it can be switched off while the others keep feeding. "Check my feed" asks the network itself what it is receiving from your station, because a connected socket only proves the app is talking.
The repository is the corresponding-source offer: the app bundles readsb (GPL-3.0-or-later) statically linked with librtlsdr and libusb, and scripts/build-readsb.sh fetches the exact upstream sources and reproduces the universal binary we ship, carrying no patches of our own. Every release lists the version of every bundled component and the SHA-256 of the DMG.
