I have a FA Blu and a Pi4 running PiAware. I want to be able to feed ADSBExchange also. For now thats all i want it to do. It runs with no display just sits there and sends data via wifi to my router. What is going to be my best route to make this happen? I'm kinda new at Pis but have sucesfully made game emulators and kodi players with them so i do get some of it, but how to do what is just confusing me so i come to you for advice or maybe a cookbook of how to do it would be great! Thanks, Charles
The easiest way is gonna be our image and then SSH in to install piaware. (see the very bottom for piaware: https://www.adsbexchange.com/how-to-feed/adsbx-custom-pi-image/) For starting with the piaware image, you'll have to remove the sd-card and place a text file called ssh on the boot partition to enable SSH. Then install the adsbexchange feed client.
Thank you sir, I went with your suggestion to use the ADSBE image then i had to use Putty to put the FA commands in to get FA happy and was even able to reclaim my old stats from FA. It wasnt too hard. Have it configured to blink the LEDS and its sitting there happily blinking and reporting away. Im very happy with it and now we have a new station on the MS Gulf Coast I want to backup the image i have now that it is all working. What would i need to do that? And can the SD cards be switched from say a Pi4 to a Pi Zero to compare performance of the 2 devices?
You can change the sd-card into any pi. Our image autoexpands to 8 GB ... so making an image of the first 9 GB would safely work. I know how to do it linux using dd on the command line and i'm sure you can google your way to some instructions. Not sure what tools you would use on windows. Not sure you can do it with dd on OS X ... anyhow give it a google. Really it's easy to recreate. If you like the graphs you can back them up on their own: https://github.com/wiedehopf/graphs1090#graphs1090 Our image makes sure to write barely any data, so sd-cards hopefully last a lot longer. (Mostly it writes the graph data once a night)
Hey sorry for the long delay responding but I did get it all going. I backed up the card with some Windows program but i forgot what and Im not home to see. Put the cloned SD card in and its off and running. I was able to even add another SDR for 978Mhz and so far so good. I am getting very good performance I think with my homebrew 1/4 wave groundplane antenna on the Pi4. This weekend i will experiment with the Pi ZeroW. From what i saw initially, it was not seeing as many planes as with the Pi4.
