Hi I have just got up and running with the kit from The Pi Hut I am using the ADSB Exchange Raspberry Pi image. The kit comes with instructions on how to install the Flightaware image. As I am mainly interested in Military Flights are there any benefits from using Flightaware?
No. If you feel the need ... you could just install piaware to feed FA (don't install dump1090-fa). (short section here https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/Raspbian-Lite:-ADS-B-receiver)
ADSBx image is designed to work in poor power environments where SD card writes are very problematic. The other images are not, particularly FR24. ADSBx image is Raspbian with some easy config files and fancy UI. The only things you lose by not using it is the pretty Grafana UI and limited SD writes. We don't support a DIY install of that because of the complexity and time needed to do support. I personally say use ADSBx image since the hard work is done. DIY Raspbian is fine too, if you know what you are doing. ADSBx supports all other feeder clients, with the caveat that some do not play nice with everyone else and we have no control if they break your feeder.
i've started with the ADSBx image and added FlightAware and FR24 later, now running all three together for almost one year together without any issues...
I could name a lot of anecdotal evidence of FR24 or RB24 hogging the SDR and thus breaking things. (instead of using the data available via the decoder that is already running) Anecdotal evidence (it works for me!) doesn't really make a good argument in regards to issue that can arise ...
Thanks, this really motivates to be an active part of this forum... i just followed YOUR directions stated here: https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/Raspbian-Lite:-ADS-B-receiver and now it works, it seems to be anecdotal? Ok, whatever floats your boat. I will just switch to read-only mode here.
If you want to be annoyed go ahead but that's not what i said (or at least not what i meant). People don't always manage to follow the instructions completely or just follow the instructions given by the other sites. That's what we refer to if we say "there can be issues". Yes you can still fix 99% of issues but that doesn't mean adding more feed clients is hassle free. (if you follow the instructions it's usually not an issue) Now suppose you install fr24feed via their script ... not even a year ago they had a bug that made the root partition read-only. They ship with an updater if you use their script and there is no saying when they will add the next bug. Anyhow to avoid most issues i've added those instructions to do a limited fr24feed install that doesn't use their debian package or script. Maybe i read "there is no problem with fr24feed" into your post ... and it was just what it was ... works for me. Then don't take my response that personal
Yes. FR24 is crap and will eventually break other site feeders. They do this purposely by snagging the SDR and turning off the beast output. I believe it's too common to be incompetence but people like to be part of the FR24 cult. Along with the blatant incompetence things that they've done like read-only partitions and smoking directories. At any rate, ADSBx should work fine. Assuming FR24 auto updates are turned off.
