Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable proximity alerts

45 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by FormerLabFred
(github.com)

14 Comments

deepsun

2 hours ago

AIS 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.

dawnerd

2 hours ago

Seems a bit deceptive to say "No cloud, no subscription, runs locally" when it still needs an api.

FormerLabFred

2 hours ago

From 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

2 hours ago

And the webserver is running locally, this is not web based, that’s the no cloud part

FormerLabFred

8 hours ago

This 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.

dark-star

8 hours ago

Tried 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

8 hours ago

You 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

8 hours ago

yeah, seemed I had an error in that key, it cut off 2 characters at the end. Works fine now, thanks!

FormerLabFred

2 hours ago

Good!

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

3 hours ago

Feels 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

Krasnol

8 hours ago

It would look nice on a Home Assistant dashboard

FormerLabFred

8 hours ago

Whatever you got :)

Siri, NORA IMO 9259408, give me position, knots, and heading

Later versions