Homelab · live data

Live Globe

Every aircraft, ship, satellite and quake the public feeds can see, on one photorealistic globe. Click anything to track it, or press CHAT in the bottom dock and tell it where to go. The globe is for family and friends: pick Email code at the sign-in, enter your email, and type the code you receive. No account needed; only invited addresses get in. The chat is answered by Claude through my homelab, which is why it is not open to everyone.

If the frame below stays blank, sign in first with the button; it opens the globe full screen and the embedded view works afterwards in Chrome. Safari blocks the session cookie inside frames, so use full screen there. Not invited yet? Ask me and I will add your email.

Sign in & open full screen

What is on the globe

  • Aircraft ADS-B transponders via adsb.lol and OpenSky
  • Ships AIS beacons
  • Satellites CelesTrak orbital elements, propagated live
  • Earthquakes USGS feed
  • Weather GFS / ECMWF wind, radar, clouds, lightning, cyclone tracks
  • Public cameras Traffic and public webcams

Most feeds are live or refreshed every few seconds. Traffic is simulated along real roads; camera poses and launch trajectories are coarse estimates. Typed chat is on for signed-in users; voice control is off.

How it is hosted

The globe runs as a production build on my Unraid server, published only on the LAN address, with the hostname pinned in its allow-list and provider-key setup disabled. Cloudflare Tunnel fronts it; the tunnel ingress and DNS are managed in Terraform like the rest of this site's infrastructure. Access is gated by Cloudflare Access with Auth0 sign-in. The chat is a small local patch: the app's chat route speaks to Claude through a proxy on my Unraid server, so no cloud key lives in the app.

The globe renders in your browser, so a laptop or desktop with hardware acceleration gives the best result. If the frame stays dark, open it full screen.

Third-party data stays under its own licences; see the project's data sources.