Hey guys. I'm planning my first ADS-B feeder, to go up on a mast on my roof. Looking for some sanity checking and fill in the blanks. ADSBX Dual Band antenna will be on a mast above the roof line of my house. Proxicast 3ft N to SMA cable from the antenna to the hardware enclosure NEMA enclosure on the shaded north side of the house below the roof line will contain: Pi 3B+ w/ a 3.5amp POE hat FlightAware Pro Sticks [orange] for 1090 and 978 Bingfu sma splitter for the 2 sticks Little 5v fan blowing at the pi circulating air in the enclosure Unifi USW-Flex outdoor POE powered POE switch providing connectivity and power to the ADS-B Pi, UniFi AC-M-US outdoor WiFi AP on the mast, and and IP cameras. One Cat6 run from my network closet on the other side of the house. I plan to install the ADSBX SD card image following the ADSBX instructions which seems pretty straightforward. But I feel like something must be missing regarding adding 978 to the default 1090 configuration. The instructions say this but seems like there must be more to it than this: Code: 978 for US based 2 SDR receivers You only need to do this if you have more than one SDR on the device. Set serials of each SDR one at a time, plug in, run the appropriate command, then unplug and run the appropriate command for the other SDR. Example commands sudo rtl_eeprom -d 0 -s 1090 sudo rtl_eeprom -d 1 -s 978 Then edit /boot/adsbx-env RECEIVER_OPTIONS=”–device 1090 –device-type rtlsdr –ppm 0″ #RECEIVER_OPTIONS=”–device-type rtlsdr –ppm 0″ I live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farms and cows up on a mountain. The nearest radio tower with paging or other sources of garbage is 5 miles away. So I did not buy the inline bandpass filter or the pro sticks. Are there still implications of not having the filter? Like a plane directly overhead blowing it out? What do you guys think about the pi and dongles in the unvented waterproof NEMA enclosure outdoors. I'm in Maryland. Typical summer temps are 85-100 and humid and winter 20-40. The box will be on the north side of the house so virtually 24/7 shade from the direct sun. I'm a little nervous about putting a vent in the bottom of the box due to humidity and insects. Looks like MLAT is built into the image and I don't need to do anything additional to participate in that data? It will send data to the ADSBX MLAT server, and I will get MLAT aircraft data back which I participated in existing? Is there a guide somewhere to feed other services with my setup? I want my setup to be ADSBX based for all the reasons I like ADSBX over the others. But I'd still like to feed some of the other services if I can. I already have an influxDB and Grafana server operating at my house for a variety of other nerdy things. Can I feed stats out of ADSBX into my own database to use?
ADSBx image has exporters for prometheus. For InfluxDB, you can write code to aircraft.json over your LAN and insert whatever into database however you want and in whatever format. Water/bug ingress might be an issue. Take SDR out of plastic. Spray them and Pi with CRC corrosion inhibitor. https://www.amazon.com/CRC-SP-400-Corrosion-Inhibitor-Aerosol/dp/B000P1HKKM/ The box needs to breath, temperature fluctuations will cause condensation. Holes in bottom of box with screen glued in that that prevents most bugs and what not inside. Good to go. Some E6000 glue goo should do it. If you are DIY savvy. Use a cheap engine breather! https://www.amazon.com/Spectre-Performance-4276-Breather-Grommet/dp/B004AIZAH6/ Or something made for it. https://www.amazon.com/Hammond-SDA412-HAMMOND-BREATHER-KIT/dp/B005T59V1U/ Or https://www.amazon.com/inch-Louvered-Vent-Screen-Filter/dp/B07P938BZR/ Or https://www.amazon.com/BUD-Industries-NBX-10911-Moisture-Mounting/dp/B005T760YE/
