Over the weekend, I upgraded my raspberry pi to a newer model and Buster OS. I first installed my Flight Aware feed which is working fine. Then I installed latest the adsbexchange software. Both services are working just fine. I'm able to serve the adsbexchange area where I am located at from my feed and the number of planes indicated agrees with what I see on my Virtual Radar viewer running the FlightAware dump1090-fa. So all is good. I have a few questions to wrap up the adsbexchange setup. Is there a way to force a zoomed in level on the global adsbexchange display link? When the page first opens, it looks like the map is zoomed all the way out. I want the page to load to a zoomed in level of my choice that is close to my area. I've seen a number of forum posts that nobody is getting syncs with other peers. I seem to be in the same boat. My previous installation had numerous sync'd sites. While synching is not a big deal to me and what I want to appear on my personal website, it would be nice to know what changed. It appears that the adsbexchange is not putting my location in the correct place on the map. Where can I edit the config file to adjust the Latitude and Longitude values to better improve my location? Where is this file located on the Buster OS? I just got my private pilot's license last year and love the VFR sectional overlay on the map! Appreciate the suggestions and guidance. N8MDP
The browser should remember which area you were viewing when you last closed the page. Yes there are parameters ... but really you shouldn't need them: https://www.adsbexchange.com/map-help/ Well MLAT is an interesting part of our service. If FA MLAT syncs for you and adsbexchange doesn't would mean you just have the location not set precisely. https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange#display-the-configuration https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange#changing-the-configuration There are some other possible reasons for not getting sync: - ntp not working to get the pis clock close to real time (it's not used as sync but sync won't happen without somewhat accurate time) - voltage insufficient at the SDR causing USB transmission errors due to either an insufficient power supply or using an USB extension - running the decoder in a VM (probably not your case) If you're talking about https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/ that is on purpose to make it impossible to get the precise location of users.
Thanks for your advice. I'll poke around at the different links you provided. Everything is working. just want to polish things up a bit. Thanks. N8MDP
Well if you're not synced then MLAT isn't working. Are you at least roughly in the correct place on this page: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/# Did you enter your coordinates with sufficient precision (4 or 5 decimal digits) https://www.freemaptools.com/elevation-finder.htm Note that sync will only happen if you have ADS-B aircraft in common with other receivers. (that's how sync works) Also note that others on this forum having issues with sync have been resolved in most cases.
