Two 1090 Receivers One (1) Pi

Discussion in 'Feeding' started by Mark Richardson, Feb 9, 2021.

  1. Mark Richardson

    Mark Richardson New Member

    I'm feeding FA (FA Image) with 2 receivers on one Pi. Followed these instructions and it works:

    https://discussions.flightaware.com...hz-ads-b-receivers-on-one-pi-no-uat-978/51587

    I'm feeding ADSBx from one Dongle plus feeding UAT. My question is how (or can?) I also feed the data to ADSBx from the 2nd dongle? In the thread, there is a way to feed FR24, but I don't want to do that. Basically I have dump1090-fa and dump1090-fa2 and the latter I would like to feed to ADSBx.

    Background, the reason i do this is because i'm less than 2 miles from the closest airport and in order to track the planes that are directly overhead (about 1700 feet), the 2nd dongle has a lot less gain and therefore i don't lose signal due to the dongle being overloaded.

    Anyway, if it can be done I would like to do so. If not, not an issue. Thanks for any assistance, much appreciated!
     
  2. wiedehopf

    wiedehopf Administrator Staff Member

    So installing secondary MLAT would be kinda annoying so i won't go into that.
    This will add the ADS-B data from the second receiver:

    Replace the NET_OPTIONS line in /etc/default/adsbexchange with this one:
    Code:
    NET_OPTIONS="--net-connector 127.0.0.1,31005,beast_in --net-heartbeat 60 --net-ro-size 1280 --net-ro-interval 0.2 --net-bi-port 30154"
    
    Rerunning the feed setup will overwrite those changes so be aware of that.
     
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  3. Mark Richardson

    Mark Richardson New Member

    Done. Thank you for your quick reply. Hope this adds a little more data tracking from the low altitude flights to ADSBx!