Hello, I followed the steps but I see that my feeder information does not appear, this message appears:
well ... I'm not sure why you are running the socat command in terminal ... Just use the script installer and be done.
Hi again all! Just ran the update from the beginning of this thread and everything worked as written. The only issue I'm having right now is the https://www.adsbexchange.com/"myip". It just says Oops! That page can't be found. Everything else appears to be working just fine. Thoughts?
Well silly me....I was actually putting my IP address at the end there....LOL lines out output: 13 Data incoming from: 68.37.208.138 Route: beast_front Port: 30005 Backend: beast_back Connected: merge-9-3 Age: 49m41s Data incoming from: 68.37.208.138 Route: beast_front Port: 30005 Backend: beast_back Connected: cons-1-51055 Age: 3m4s So I guess that means I'm feeding now and hopefully contributing.....
can you dumb that down for me just a bit and how I can correct it? I'm looking at some of the feeder sites and now seeing an icon pop up for me so I must not have something working right?
There are 2 parts of feed: socat script (forwarding all traffic in beast format to port 30005) and mlat client which sends data to port 31090. Mlat client very often needs time to connect to server. To check status: Code: sudo service mlat-client status
[email protected]:~ $ sudo service mlat-client status ● mlat-client.service - LSB: Multilateration client Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mlat-client; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2019-06-28 11:56:44 UTC; 24min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Jun 28 11:56:44 piaware systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Multilateration client... Jun 28 11:56:44 piaware mlat-client[3465]: Not starting mlat-client daemon, disabled via /etc/default/mlat-client ... (warning). Jun 28 11:56:44 piaware systemd[1]: Started LSB: Multilateration client.
It looks that is running, if you are in region 3A (UK) then connection to mlat server can be unstable due to load. You can't fix it, leave it running it will try to reconnect.
OK...I'll just let it run and check back in a little while and see if I'm on the feeder pages at all. I'm not in the UK.....I'm in USA(Michigan). Thanks for your help!
Actually that's the service, it's not used by adsb-exchange and just lies dormant (disabled in the config file) To check if the processes are running you can use the following: pgrep -l adsbexchange Anyway if you see both of these: adsbexchange-netcat_maint.sh adsbexchange-mlat_maint.sh Then it's running locally. You can also check the parameters of the actual programs being run. pgrep -a mlat-client pgrep -a socat
No it's not flightaware MLAT, that is now called fa-mlat-client (/usr/lib/piaware/helpers/fa-mlat-client). It's just the default mlat-client service installed from the mlat-client installed by adsb-exchange. Doesn't hurt anything. But as i wrote doesn't tell you if the relevant script is running.
Hello All, I am currently feeding Flight Aware with my RPi. I have 2 units, one of which I use as a 'portable' setup and adjust the wifi settings to the local system. Obviously, I am not seeing many military squawks other than the larger aircraft out of BZZ which is not far away from me. I ran my portable setup for the week before the Cosford Airshow this year (I am the Flying Display Director or Air Boss there!) but saw little of interest in the area. Being close to BZZ means I am also close to RIAT but, disappointingly, saw few fast jet squawks today on your Virtual Radar page as they all departed with many climbing into the 'corridor' so they must have been squawking something sensible? However, I am not here to complain but to ask if, as I already have a working Flight Aware feeder, I can use the instructions at the start of this thread to feed extra data to you or would you suggest a 'clean' install by a different method? Many thanks.
If you are already feeding just add ADSBx feeder to existing setup Code: udo apt update sudo apt install git socat git clone https://github.com/adsbxchange/adsb-exchange.git cd adsb-exchange chmod +x setup.sh sudo ./setup.sh
OK, so I've loaded the software as per instructions and it tells me that I should be feeding. However, whilst Flight Aware appears still to be running, and feeding, the log screen on the RPi shows me that I am connecting and disconnecting from adsbexchange after 20secs. Log says: "Connected to multilateration server at feed. adsbexchange. com:31090, handshaking" Then after 20secs: "Lost connection to feeed. adsbexchange. com:31090" "Reconnecting in 30.0 seconds" ....and so on. Any ideas?
