Hi, I have set up a vanilla Pi and installed dump1090-fa. I installed Piaware to feed to FA and the FR24 feeder. Both seem to be working fine. I can view ADSB and MLAT results on SkyView. However, I have followed the instructions on ADSBExchange to install their feeder. It installed with no errors but for some reason is not working correctly. When I check my IP, it has a good ADSB feeder connection but no MLAT connection. My feeder also does not appear on the feeder map. I have searched the internet high and low and different sites talk about different ports for the MLAT feed. What I doing wrong?
You likely have some settings wrong, check the commands here to change the stuff: https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange#display-the-configurtion You can send me a private message with your configuration if you want. Otherwise check the logs you might see the error yourself.
Thanks for the quick response. The original script seems to be the same as the script that I downloaded directly from ADSB Exchange following the feeder instructions on the site itself. The update script not included on the ADSBExchange site produces the following error: sudo bash /tmp/axupdate.sh cp: cannot stat 'uninstall.sh' : No such file or directory [ERROR] Error in line 86 when executing: c uninstall.sh $IPATH The log file for the MLAT client shows it trying to start but failing: adsbexchange-mlat.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart. adsbexchange-mlat.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2030 Stopped adsbexchange-mlat Started adsbexchange-mlat adsbexchange-mlat[9164]: /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/adsbexchange-mlat.sh: line 19: /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/venv/bin/mlat-client: No such file or directory adsbexchange-mlat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a adsbexchange-mlat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code' Any thoughts?
Sorry i was working on the feed install scripts, please download the current version and try again. https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange#install-the-adsbexchange-feed-client
I have repeated the process and this time it did work thank you. However, the problem with line 19 persists, unable to locate /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/venv/bin/mlat-client.
Hmm once more please ... :/ You can also run sudo bash /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/git/uninstall.sh and then run the update.sh again see if that helps. Let's see if there is something useful in the log: cat /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/lastlog
Sorry just to clarify, you want me to run through the whole process again per the link and then follow it with uninstall.sh and update.sh?
Ok so I went through the process you described. Still the same issue. I opened the log and it highlighted an issue with missing python3-venv package and kindly told me what to do to install it. I installed the package and then went through the whole feeder install/update process again. Still the same issue with the missing mlat-client but the log file is now clear. I did however notice an error when going through the install process that seems connected.
Best guess: sd-card is dying? Check the output for dmesg if you see any sd-card related errors: dmesg
Checking in with the same issue. Just reinstalled my client, because it was not feeding to FR24 properly. Used the FR24 image. Feeding ADS-B normally, no MLAT with the same error as Matthew. Mar 23 12:55:44 raspberrypi adsbexchange-mlat[21046]: /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/adsbexchange-mlat.sh: line 19: /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/venv/bin/mlat-client: No such file or directory
Issue should be fixed, sorry for the problems i updated the code to be a bit nicer and obivously missed some important stuff Just updating as described here should be sufficient: https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange#update-the-feed-client-without-reconfiguring Note that the changed code is in update.sh so that needs to be downloaded as described.
I've recently set up a Pi4 too, and I am very impressed at how smoothly it went, I had much less of a tech battle than I was expecting! wiedehopf your github pages and scripts were particularly useful, thank you. Now feeding ADSBx successfully.
FYI, I've run into the same problem. Using a brand new install of piaware. I've ensured that the appropriate python3-venv and other bits as required in the setup script are installed; no matter what I've tried (uninstalling and reinstalling, stepping through the script by hand, etc.) it seems to be pretty well broken on creating the venv. I'm not familiar enough with python to fix this, but I figured I'd point it out in the event anyone else is having a similar issue as it appears to be the same problem as others here have had but has since been resolved. --------------------------------- adsbexchange-mlat service couldn't be started, please report this error to the adsbexchange forum or discord. Try an copy as much of the output above and include it in your report, thank you! --------------------------------- # cat lastlog The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv package using the following command. apt-get install python3-venv You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv package, recreate your virtual environment. Failing command: ['/usr/local/share/adsbexchange/venv/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']
I have it running without issues. You're likely having problems with your sd-card or something along those lines. You can try and just rerun the setup .... Code: wget -O /tmp/axupdate.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange/master/update.sh sudo bash /tmp/axupdate.sh I'm not sure what exactly you've been doing ... maybe using an outdated version of the install scripts? And the issues orginally mentioned in this thread have been fixed when this thread was active. So it's not the same problem but rather a similar problem.
