i have upgrade my piAware to 3.6.3 via the flightaware settings page will I still be uploading to Adsb as I can’t see my red marker on feeder page. Hugh
I have no idea. Did you re-image? or just use their update. FA hates ADSBx (and every other ADS-B site) so they will break things purposely.
Piaware 3.6.3 is somehow preventing ADSBx mlat-client to start on boot if installed before mlat-client. I'm fighting with this issue after SSD replacement on my Debian station. I'll let you know about results of my investigation.
OK, first impression: mlat-client on clean Debian 9 is running till 1st reboot. Startup entry fails. I will need more time to find solution. On Pi should be OK but please be careful with OS updates/upgrades. Tomorrow I want to test mlat-client on most recent Raspbian.
If startup entry fails - a lot of time something needs root and is silently prompting for password if run by sudo user. Claiming privileged low number ports, etc. Accessing devices in /dev. Those sometimes need root.
It looks that most of people who want to feed are sentenced to use ready/tested images. Fresh config from scratch will be available to experienced only.
Raspbian made some dumb changes to the latest release for the B+. Country code must be set or it rfkills the wifi. Sometimes setting it doesn't work. User must run raspi-config ... ugh I ran into some networking issues as well. I have some patches and getting ready for 1.29 release. But yeah ... I think going forward there will be less and less easy of setup - but that works out for FlightAware and not for everyone else. Ubuntu 18.04 is using netplan, which is a nightmare.
I've been looking into Alpine to make a base feeder image. Maybe we just let Joe do his image and fix his bugs. I need to get working on VRS map using Apache or Nodejs and Memcache as a proxy and cache. I think we can stop having 30 global webservers to mange and convert them to ingest servers. with something that can handle the traffic. This will also let me replace that json public api. Golang TCP relay is working great. I need to lock down the TCP feed tho, too much abuse on it. Need users to request access only if they have a feeder.
On Debian 9, the traditional “rc.local” has been deprecated. Please check if rc.local service is installed Code: sudo systemctl status rc-local.service If not installed follow the steps described here https://www.itechlounge.net/2017/10/linux-how-to-add-rc-local-in-debian-9/ SSH as root or use sudo, use nano instead of vi. After that you can install ADSBx mlat-client, it will start on every reboot.
