I'm just rocking the questions like a 6 year old today! So, I have been running a FlightAware feeder with a RasPi Zero W for the last year or so, no problems, happy machine. I have been running a ADSBx Custom Pi Image feeder with a RasPi Zero W for the last month and a half, maybe, and likewise, happy little feeder. In both setups, I'm using Nooelec Nano 3s which are literally mounted directly to their respective antennas, my favorites, the passive flat rectangles that make every other antenna I've tried look like I'm using a broom stick as an antenna. Now, the problem child, FR24. Back when I got the FlightAware rolling, I don't remember exactly what the issue was that prevented me from completing the ADSBx Custom Pi Image feeder. But the FR24 software was acting like a spoiled little imp. I was using the exact same setup, I love the Zero Ws because of how capable those little key fob sized things are. Normally I will always choose the greatest extent of overkill possible if available, so it's interesting I make an acceptation with this. Anyway, I finally tried what I knew would work with the FR24, I caved and set it up in one of the extra RasPi 4s I had, and low and behold, the little princess was finally satisfied with the setup, and now it works. My question is, putting the fickle stupidity baked into the FR24 software, are there any drawbacks that I'm overlooking by going small with the other two? The SDRs run their normal 5th layer of hell hot, but neither of the RasPi Zero Ws crunching that data seem to get any warmer than maybe +10˚ F of the ambient temp, and while I'll have the occasional "Dude, it ain't pushing the data no more" emails requiring I recycle the power, but I don't know about all the cool kid Gucci capabilities. Like the SSH remote capability, pushing Bias-T toggle commands, or other things I have no idea about. Probably a short answer, but it'll be one less thing. Just for the record, the FR24 software is ass. It doesn't even let you log in with a link or a local IP address. Those guys are a little too proud of themselves. Remember, FR24, to most analysts, filtered data mine as well be no data. If you're working with data that you KNOW is incomplete, but you don't know how or to what extent, just stop, you're wasting your time. #ADSBXisYOURdaddy
you'll just need to use SSH, get an RPi3 and install all of the stuff on the same RPi. That way you can also use a non nano SDR and an LNA without having to buy multiple. https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/Raspbian-Lite:-ADS-B-receiver Go on the discord and message me ... getting SSH going really isn't that hard. And the commands are just copy and paste, no need for you to understand pretty much any of them.
When I triumphantly return to my rad pad in Mary-Land tomorrow, I'll give the new skills I learned on the RasPi DummyDesk website. If they are complete failures and didn't teach me good and stuff, I will hit you up fer shizzles. I think I figured it out, but just need to be on my local network. I have a Synology NAS (which is beyond rad, and something I HIGHLY recommend for anyone but the elderly) which I set up a VPN recently through. The VPN works, but it didn't tunnel me into my home network like I had thought it would do. Instead I was out in Seattle, which I think is a city near Mexico, or Canada. So, that VPN is now dead to me and will be drop kicked into a bonfire, symbolically of course because it's not a tangible thing Weed-Hoof, come on, everyone knows that! Speaking of your name, are you actually in the Father Land? I was stationed in Hanua, and LOVVVVVVVED that tour. Fliegerhorst, which had been a Nazi airbase back in WW-Nam, had underground tunnels we would go crawling through, really cool little airport. Yeah, it's a warehouse and strip mall now. Yay.....Gentrification! I just want to say, LOOK...AT HOW SHORT THIS POST IS. LIKE, OH, MY GAWD......TOTES CRAY CRAY! TOTES B'GOATS
