New bot features

Specific Aircraft Selecting

Now you can select from 1 to 5 specific aircraft using command /selectaircraft.
For example if you want to track only Boeing 747 or Airbus A380 and Airbus A350.

This feature is so useful for busy airports, like Frankfurt Airport.

Notifications

• Modified Bot greeting
• Added new emoji
• Disabled web page preview

Bugfix

• Modified name of some airports and added new
• Added new aircraft codes
• Fixed repeating notification about An-124 in user airport
• Fixed some typos
• Optimized requests to Flightradar API

New bot features

Notifications

• Added airline display for An-124 notifications
• Optimized conditions for sending notifications
• If the An-124 is on the ground, the notification no longer contains its altitude and speed because there is no need for that

Bug fix

• Fixed a problem when a user repeatedly received a notification that an An-124 was flying near his airport

New bot features

Avgeek Telegram Bot

• Now you can change the System of Units using the /changeunits command to
  • Metric
    • Altitude - meters
    • Distance - kilometers
    • Speed - kilometers per hour
  • Imperial
    • Altitude - feet
    • Distance - miles
    • Speed - miles per hour
  • Aviation
    • Altitude - feet
    • Distance - nautical miles
    • Speed - knots
• You can now send feedback using the /feedback command
• Now when you select a language, its emoji will be displayed instead of its name

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug when users who don't have username set in Telegram were not added to the bot.
• Fixed a bug where even if a user does not have an airport installed, he still receives notifications from the bot.

Bot Admin Panel

Now the bot has an admin panel based on Spring Boot Admin, but finalized for the bot.

With the admin panel you can track all users and information about them, statistics of command usage, as well as see user feedback.
However, one of the main features of the admin panel is that it is now possible to send custom messages to all users.

New bot features

Wide-body flights

• You will now receive notifications when a wide-body aircraft flight is coming in for landing (previously you only received notification of takeoff)
• Now you will receive more detailed information (speed, altitude, etc.) in the notification when the flight is active
• Emoji added to notifications

An-124 flights

• Frequency of information update was reduced from 10 to 5 minutes
• Improved notification text for better understanding
• In the notification now indicates the airport of departure if it is known
• Emoji added to notifications

New bot features

New bot Features

• Added new bot mode Mute
  Now you can select Mute mode if you don't want to receive any notifications, you can always turn them back on.

• The translation of airport names has been removed from the bot
  I removed the translation of airport names using the Geonames API due to incorrect translations.

• Bug fix

  • Fixed an error displaying the wrong country using Geonames API.
  • Fixed typos in the text.
  • Modified aircraft names, e.g. Boeing 777 -> Boeing 777-300ER.

New bot features

New bot features

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• New An-124 notifications

  You will now receive 4 types of notifications:

  • When the An-124 is on the ground (you will also be shown the airport where it is located)
  • When the An-124 is gaining altitude after takeoff (you will be shown the estimated airport from which it took off)
  • When the An-124 is landing (you will be shown the estimated airport of arrival)
  • If there is not enough information you will receive the usual notification as before

• Changes to wide-body flight notifications:

  • The flight registration will now be displayed to you
  • You will now be shown a link with information about the aircraft
  • You will now be notified when the flight departed for your airport

• Other

  • Now bot translate airport names
  • The bot now sends notifications in Markdown format

New bot features

This release provides new features

• Multi-languages

  Now the bot supports 3 languages:

  • English
  • Ukrainian
  • Russian

  Select language - /lang

• Email alerts

  Now you can add your email to the bot and receive alerts if the An-124 will be at your airport.

  Change email - /setemail
  Get your current email - /myemail
  Remove email from the bot - /removeemail

• Bot modes

  Now you can change the mode of the bot.

  Modes:

  • All - You will receive alerts about An-124 flights and wide-body aircraft flights.
  • Wide-body - You will receive alerts only for wide-body aircraft.
  • An-124 - You will receive alerts only about An-124 flights.

  Change mode - /changemode
  Get your current mode - /currentmode

New An-124 and live flights alerts

This release adds new types of alerts for An-124, as well as live flights tracking

New alerts:

• If An-124 is less than 175 km from the selected airport without altitude.
• If An-124 is less than 15 km from the selected airport and its altitude is less than 2000 meters, in this case it is considered to have arrived at your airport.

Live flights tracking:

• Now a flight alert is re-sent when it becomes active.

Add new planes

Add new planes to whitelist:

• McDonnell Douglas MD-11
• C17 Globemaster III
• Lockheed C-130H (C-130J) Hercules

View the Bot here.

First release

First release

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Bot commands:

• /ping - Check the connection.
• /start - Start the bot and select the airport.
• /currentairport - Get your current airport.
• /changeairport - Change your airport.

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Bot deployed and It can be viewed here.