4. MLAT

MLAT is short for Multilateration. MLAT enables us to calculate the position of a plane when four or more mlat enabled stations are in reach. Many smaller aircrafts are not equipped to send the position data on their own, this is where MLAT jumps in. The MLAT client is easy to install and does not interfere with any other MLAT Client you may already have installed. We really appreciate you installing MLAT on your ADS-B station.

To continue you need to add the repository to your system like shown in the Install Chapter

Install the mlat-client package

sudo apt install mlat-client-c2is

Configure the mlat-client package

• usually, the package install should ask you the necessary questions to setup the mlat-client
• if you're not asked for your credentials etc., please edit the configuration with sudo nano /etc/default/mlat-client-c2is manually and restart the service with sudo systemctl restart mlat-client-c2is. Please enter your credentials in the format shown below.

Configuration

• Enter your stationname and api key, seperated by a ':'

username:password

• Enter latitude, longitude and altitude
• Everything else can be left unchanged
• The mlat-client communicates to the mlat server via stunnel4 which is automatically configured via the mlat-client-c2is package

Done

• Now your station will feed MLAT to us. You can check the status of your station by selecting it on our map.