Comment by cozzyd

And to be clear, I'm not necessarily against running readsb I just don't want to run random bash scripts that mess with a running system...

It looks like readsb is an evolution of dump1090 with potentially more features? I'll look into it when we consider reworking our software. For now I added a quick socat and I'll find out soon if it worked (no planes currently over Summit...). It would be nice if these websites advertised "Start feeding from your running dump1090 instance with socat tcp:localhost:30005 tcp:foo.bar:30004, here is a systemd service that does that."

edit: it worked! airplanes.live now tracking QTR28V from Seattle to Doha.

But to conserve bandwidth, it might make sense to send through a compressed ssh tunnel to something not in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.