[OUTDATED] piAware 3.5.3 image - WORKING MLAT REQUIRES MANUAL UPDATE

Thank you James.

Solved the problem. I had a bad Micro SD card.

Installed and configured ADSB Exchange image on a new 16 GB card and working great now.

 

Excellent! With a correct configuration file the images should 'just work'. Thanks for feeding!

 

Hi , so I saved the new image to piaware , what in the config.txt do I put in and where do I edit James. I'm almost there and ready to broadcast

 

correct ... It's nearly identical to setting up a base piaware feeder -- other than there are a few ADSBx only variables at the end of the piaware-config.txt

 

There seems to be some confusion on the piaware adsbx image. There is virtually no difference to the base piaware image setup; except for the adsbx specific fields.

See a sample config below with all the explanation text taken out. 51xxx port needs to be changed to a real port that you pick from the available ports with no data on them.

Code:

#===============
wired-network yes

wireless-network yes
wireless-ssid "yourSSID"
wireless-password "yourpass"

rtlsdr-gain -10

allow-auto-updates no
allow-manual-updates yes
allow-mlat yes
allow-modeac yes

#feeder-id xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
#adsbx-allow-remote no

adsbx-lat 8.56464
adsbx-lon -33.2654

adsbx-nickname  yourfeedername
adsbx-feederid 51xxx

send978 no
adsbx-978feederid 30005
#============

 

Piaware 3.5.6 will probably be Stretch based or later - since it doesn't run on the new B+. Realistically, there is no need to support this image when 2 shell scripts complete the ADSBx install, just FYI.

Any specific reasons you like the piaware image with no stats, logging, dashboard, etc ?

 

You're better off running the ADSBx image and adding the other feeders. It's very simple to do. I'm running ADSBx whatever-current-version with dual NESDR SMArT SDR sticks (1090 and 978) and send feeds to ADSBx, FA, FR24, RB, PF, and OpenSky. I'm doing MLAT with both ADSBx and FA.

And, honestly, knowing how many planes you're seeing is just a dick-measuring contest. As long as you're seeing the traffic you want to see, it really doesn't matter. And, you'll see huge variations... my feeder is fairly high coverage (consistently in the top 1,000 FA feeders, with >250nm coverage, and looking at two major international airports) and my position reports vary from over 1 million per day to less than 500K per day - just depends on the day of the week, the season, etc. Worry about seeing what you want to see... not about some number.

 

If your interest is primarily in ADSBx, I'm not entirely sure why you wouldn't use the ADSBx image. Install it, follow the instructions to install FA from package, it will detect dump1090 already running and use it versus installing its own... you'll be up and running in like 5 commands. And you get the Grafana backend.

 

Christmas always better than Easter.

 

...but Christmas has been cancelled - they've found the father

 

I am trying to feed to port 51269 with no luck. Anyone see where I went wrong?




Here is a copy of the script from piaware-config.txt





######
# ADSBEXCHANGE.COM CONFIGURATION ITEMS
######


# To better facilitate tech support, troubleshooting
# and upgrades, This image from ADSBexchange allows remote
# access into your Raspberry pi by ADSBexchange
# personnel.
# If you wish to disable this for any reason,
# delete the # from the line below.

#adsbx-allow-remote no

# ADSBEXCHANGE LOCATION CONFIGURATION
#
# Assuming the PiAware receiver location is set properly
# on Flightaware's Website (http://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/claim),
# that location will be used.
# To override that location for ADSBexchange MLAT calculations, delete
# the leading # from the lines below, and enter your LAT/LON coords.
#
# North latitude is positive, south latitude is negative.
# East longitude is positive, west longitude is negative
#
# Example: Coordinates for London, England are
# Latitude: 51.50653
# Longitude: -0.07270
#
#adsbx-lat 41.XXXXX
#adsbx-lon -75.XXXXX

# ADSBEXCHANGE MLAT map nickname
#
# If you want a specific name for your station on the map, enter it here
# and delete the #. The last six digit of the pi MAC/Serial # will be
# appended to ensure uniqueness.

#adsbx-nickname cooldude

# If you wish to use ADSBexchange.com "Custom Feeds", specify your
# feeder id / port number below. Be sure to delete the # at the
# beginning of the line.
# This allows you to view a screen with _only_ your receiver on the ADSBexchange
# website.
#
# More info here: https://www.adsbexchange.com/how-to-feed/custom-feed-how-to/

#adsbx-feederid 51269

# If you have a second dongle and wish to also receive 978 Mhz transmissions
# (Currently only useful in the US). Change "no" to "yes" below and
# optionally define a feeder id/port for 978 transmissions on a second
# "custom feed". Do NOT use the same port you specified above.
# Pick a different one.
# Note, this typically requires a second RTL-SDR stick. Device ID 1
# will be used.

send978 no
#adsbx-978feederid
# for ADSBexchange to get in touch with you in case of difficulties
# you can provide it here.

adsbxemail [email protected]

# Additional settings can be added below.

feeder-id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # updated by fa_piaware_config




I also tried doing it through the command

cd adsb-exchange
sudo ./setup.sh
with no luck.


I appreciate any help I am very dumb when it comes to this stuff.

 

It ha

It has been over a week so I am assuming something is wrong. I just don't know what.

 

I did remove it but when I save it it puts it back. Thanks for the feeder id I didn't think it was that useful for personal info. I changed the original post. Should I save the file as a dos format? Does it even matter. Also I noticed someone had 2 planes over japan for about 10 minutes on 51269 so Im going to change it to 51267 to see if that helps. Thank you for your help.

 

Looks like everything is commented out? # (pound sign) comments things out ...