Feed ADS-B Exchange with radarscape

Discussion in 'Feeding' started by Talle, Jan 31, 2019.

  1. Talle

    Talle Member

    Hi,

    is it possible to feed ads-b exchange with a radarscape receiver ? (in addition to FR24).

    If so, anyone knows who to set it up ?
     
  2. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Officially Radarcape does not support ADSBx feed. I searched many forums and didn't found any solution.
     
  3. James

    James Guest

    ADSBx accepts AVR / Beast binary on 30005 and custom ports.

    We can accept SBS basestation on custom ports - if you contact me first and get a port.
     
  4. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    New Radarcape has Debian-based OS. You can try scripted setup of ADSBx mlat client.
    More info: https://wiki.jetvision.de/wiki/Radarcape:DebianSupport
    SSH to Radarcape and try to install mlat-client.
    As --input-type select one of types: radarcape, radarcape_gps, radarcape_12mhz
     
  5. James

    James Guest

    Ok interesting! ...
     
  6. Talle

    Talle Member

    Thanks for your reply. How do I do it ? Do you have "step by step" instructions ? :)
    (I know how to ssh into the radarscape etc. but I don't know how to download the required elements, and install / configure them)
     
  7. antonov124

    antonov124 New Member

    Code:
    Obtaining And Using The Scripts
    Running the following commands will download the contents of this repository and begin setup.
    
    sudo apt-get install git
    git clone https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange.git
    cd adsb-exchange
    chmod +x setup.sh
    sudo ./setup.sh
    
     
    Talle likes this.
  8. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Installer is self-explainable, Altitude in meters ASL, username has to be unique without space and control characters (Talle will be OK).
     
    Talle likes this.
  9. Talle

    Talle Member

    I have now installed and runned the setup script. But it does not looks like I am feeding. Do I need to start the software or something after a reboot ?
     
  10. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Check running processes with htop or top. There should be running mlat-client process.
    You can run in termianal
    Code:
    service mlat-client status
     
  11. Talle

    Talle Member

    Hmm, it says:

    -bash: service: command not found

    Alot of command is "not found" on this device. I also tried sudo reboot now with same result. Or sudo shutdown
     
  12. Talle

    Talle Member

    [email protected]:/$ sudo service mlat-client status

    mlat-client.service - LSB: Multilateration client

    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mlat-client)

    Active: active (exited) since Sat 2019-02-02 12:45:50 UTC; 26min ago

    Process: 347 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mlat-client start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)


    Feb 02 12:45:50 radarcape mlat-client[347]: Not starting mlat-client daemon,....

    Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
     
  13. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    On standard Pi:
    upload_2019-2-2_14-17-58.png
    So it looks that is running.
    Which region and username?
     
  14. Talle

    Talle Member

    Surgravvegen_02 and central Europe
     
  15. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    I don't know if it will work but try:
    Code:
    nano /var/log/daemon.log
    Scroll to end and look for mlat client log entries.
     
  16. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    If Python is not installed:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install python3.5
     
  17. Talle

    Talle Member

    Hmm, there is aroundt 7-800 lines in that logfile, but after a quick look, I really can't find anything about mlat
     
  18. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Maybe you'll need to install Python and Socat.
     
  19. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Your mlat-client is connected to server but no syncs.
    Try with different data format
    --input-type select one of types: radarcape, radarcape_gps, radarcape_12mhz
     
  20. Talle

    Talle Member

    Where do I select it ?