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Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable proximity alerts
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoThis is a light version of a more heavy-weight ML-based tracker. README head: Baltic Sea shadow fleet monitoring via live AIS data. Watches 1200+ vessels from the Ukrainian GUR War&Sanctions catalogue against the AISStream WebSocket feed, plots positions on a self-updating map, flags proximity to undersea cables, and detects Russia↔West transshipment patterns. Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key.
- Krasnol 6mo agoIt would look nice on a Home Assistant dashboard
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoWhatever you got :) Siri, NORA IMO 9259408, give me position, knots, and heading Later versions
- dark-star 6mo agoTried it. Doesn't work. Does not show any vessels for me, list (and map) stays empty, console is full of "WS closed: no close frame received or sent. Reconnecting in 10s" HN hug of death?
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoYou got an aisstream.io key and set it before launching? Check the README.You can hard code it in shadow_tracker.py too Bedtime in Sweden. Back tomorrow if you need support.
- dark-star 6mo agoyeah, seemed I had an error in that key, it cut off 2 characters at the end. Works fine now, thanks!
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoGood! Tried to do onboarding guide as proper as possible with the scripts and for different OSs. Many OSINT hobbyists/enthusiasts out there, but not all of them are familiar with installing dependencies/launching Python etc It takes a few 3 min runs to render/populate the map. Happy tracking!
- dylan604 6mo agoFeels like that could be the point of the site. It's a shadow fleet where the ships are trying to stay hidden from tracking. That would be a great site. Kind of like my favorite book on my self title "Everything I Know About Women". It's a hard cover book with hundreds of pages. Every one of them is blank. I guess I find dumb things funny
- FormerLabFred 6mo ago:) A hybrid war going on in the Baltic region. Women involved too We have been running the main system a year. Loads of data, less women Now there is this light version for the hobbyists, onboarding tricky for some users, but README covers it all
- allanrbo 6mo agoScreenshot or bust
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoPlenty over here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153285871 https://www.patreon.com/posts/153285871
- deepsun 6mo agoAIS is the first thing nefarious vessels turn off when they do nefarious things. Or set it to show 100-1000 km off, AIS protocol is easy.
- londons_explore 6mo agoOne could combine it with satellite imagery and flag up anything where the ais data and satellite imagery doesn't show a ship in that place. Ships are big enough that even low Res imagery ought to be able to see them in daylight.
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoYes this can be a true intelligence tool, combining many sources
- deepsun 6mo agoI was commenting on the link posted. "Could be" of course many things better. The webmasters could launch their own satellites.
- dawnerd 6mo agoSeems a bit deceptive to say "No cloud, no subscription, runs locally" when it still needs an api.
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoFrom head of README “ Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key.” I mean we don’t have the vessels floating around live locally inside machine :) Gotta get the AIS messages from somewhere
- FormerLabFred 6mo agoAnd the webserver is running locally, this is not web based, that’s the no cloud part