Evening folks I came over from FlightAware install to open up my feeder a bit more, happily got it all working and actively feeding into ADSBexchange! Impressed with the Grafana display on the web interface but I have a few questions/suggestions - I have an LCD attached to my Pi, but it's headless and I control it through SSH mainly. when the boot is complete it displays a login screen. is it possible to auto login from here and where does it go once it is logged in? - Is it possible to display a map showing the aircraft at my location on the LCD of the Pi? I did see one of the members post an OLED solution, but mine is the 5" LCD Touch Display(cheap but does the job). I guess to do this booting to a GU, auto launching chromium and displaying the map would be a good solution, but I am not completely tooled up on how to do this. Can anyone make any suggestions how I could achieve this? - Other option is to display the ADSB Dash similar to Grafana solution - that would be quite cool too looking forward to learning and improving my receiver and getting some great results! Regards Kev
No. Pi is not a GUI device or at least not in the wheel house for ADS-B. While it can be done with a lot of work to boot into a GUI in a 'kiosk' mode, it's not stable and definitely not for the average user to configure. It's meant to be a device that sits in a closet or attic decoding aircraft, and you look at it from other devices on the LAN or using the ADSBexchange Anywhere map. A 'dash' requires a GUI. It would only be used by 0.01% of users, and thus is not something I (and others here) have time to devote to doing or even supporting.
Thanks James kiosk mode is exactly what I meant - it was quite late and the old noodle wasn’t explaining everything well I do see where you’re coming from - your time is definitely better spent on other implementations, but my adsb is installed in my office so just didn’t want to look at a load of command line stuff on the lcd. I’m one of the 0.01% . A gui I have seen another solution for FlightAware output which I may try to mess around with, but I’ll take on board stability and performance obviously I’m not completely a noob at this, but I like to challenge myself to learn. I can understand you not wanting to put support time into it, but the nature of the Pi means you will have idiots like me who is never happy with ‘the basics’ and always looking to improve and tinker Regards Kevin
The problem is only one outdated web browser supports booting to a full screen mode and that browser isn't stable. You could install a GUI on the Pi if you are using a Pi 4. But it would make more sense and cause you less problems to use the Pi as a receiver only. SD cards are NOT made to be every day PC use disks. https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-kiosk/ https://wolfgang-ziegler.com/blog/setting-up-a-raspberrypi-in-kiosk-mode-2020 There's plenty of guides with a simple google search. I've done it using a 7" Pi touch screen, it's fun at best but not useful.
I completely get what you mean - It's a bigger resource drain and the SD card is a little unstable as a constantly used storage. I've been messing around with different GUI setups since I posted and noticed a performance hit and also the heat generation went up obviously. non of which I have been happy to keep running long term. Thanks for the links - I will do some more research from them and see if I can find some sort of 'Lite' interface medium ground, or bin the idea entirely I've now cloned a fully setup installation SD so trying different things and breaking it won't keep my station down for more than a reboot on a new clone SD the custom IMG from here is great - thanks to all involved making that. Cheers! Kev
