What did I do wrong? (custom feed)

I picked one of the zCons in the list without visible traffic on the global map (I chose zCons-51255)
I edited the netcat file and changed the port number from 30005 to 51255 followed by a sudo reboot.
After a couple of hours I checked again and there's still no traffic for zCons-51255, something must have changed because the tag with my original feeder name (img-1.2-c7e602) has now dissapeared from the mlat-coverage map.
How to proceed?

 

Yup, the one described in the tutorial.

 

Thank you MDA, problem solved, custom feed is active now.
One remark about the form to customize the feed, it doesn't mention the type of notation for the coordinates, i.e. 51.98 degrees or 51.59 degrees (decimal or 60)

 

decimal degrees please

 

Well, my custom feed is okay (alleyoopie-51255) but I'm still waiting to see my nickname appear on the mlat sync matrix & mlat coverage graphs, maybe I need to wait some time?

 

How long have you been feeding the MLAT? I should connect very quickly or in a few hours at most.

How SSH savy are you? Can you ssh into the pi and run htop?

sudo install htop

if you aren't using our image

Hit f5 to tree process them

look for mlat-client

 

I have teamviewer running on my Pi (pixel gui), I did a ps -ef in terminal mode and was unable to locate the mlat-client in the process list.
My setup is Piaware 3.5.3, mlat was broken after having installed the prochazka script, I assumed it included the mlat-client but this doesn't seem the case?

 

It should have worked. All you feed is FA and ADSBx?

I would just use Dan's Piaware Image that includes the scripts to feed us.

You can always rerun the script. From the directory.

sudo ./setup.sh

scripts are in home/pi/adsb-exchange I think

 

Well I reran setup.sh but alas no avail, feeding is okay but still no mlat.
The only reference to adsbexchange mlat I can find in the process tree is:
/bin/sh /home/pi/adsb-exchange/adsbexchange-mlat_main.sh
contents of this file is:

while true
do
sleep 30
/usr/bin/mlat-client
--input-type dump1090
--input-connect localhost:30005
(+ usual lat, long, alt, nickname)
--server feed.adsbexchange.com:31090
--no-udp
--results beast.connect.localhost:30104
done

 

That's it.

 

Just install htop and checked the mlat_main.sh thread
First difference: this process is running in /root instead of /pi
Second difference: only sleep30 seems to be running, nothing else!
(tried to add screen dump but got "there was a problem uploading your file")

 

root is fine. That's how his script sets it up.

sleep means it's not connected and sleeping for 30 secs before trying to connect again.

 

If it's sleeping continuously does this mean that /usr/bin/mlat-client cannot be executed?

 

well every 30 secs it will try to run the mlat-client statement in that file

cd /home/pi/adsbexchange

sudo ./adsbexchange-mlat_maint.sh

see if any errors other than it can't handshake come up

 

Think we're finally there!
mlat-client: error: the following arguments are required: --user
Initially, I replaced 'user' by my nickname while the correct syntax should be --user nickname, stupid error that I overlooked!

Thank you for the troubleshooting James

 

Excellent!