ok im feeding flightaware on pi I’ve bought a new sd card and I’m going to just feed adsb any help please,
Follow steps described here: https://www.adsbexchange.com/forum/threads/working-new-adsbexchange-base-image-v1-0.618988/ HOW TO SETUP & FEED ADSBEXCHANGE Mount image and edit adsb-config.txt that is in the /boot partition. You can do it on Windows PC or Mac. When ready plug card into Pi, power on and it should work.
Look at mlat sync matrix, if you're present then everything is OK (it can take some time to connect to MLAT server). If you want to see your station on coverage map change privacy option to "no" in config file.
ummm .. interesting... if dump1090 crashing then it usually means something is wrong with SDR ... are you sure it's dump1090 crashing?