If you run into problems, there is a helpful forum thread hereĪfter all this, my Pi is feeding date into the Flightaware network successfully! You should then see a message every 5 minutes detailing the number of messages that Flightaware has received from your receiver. With any luck, you will see a bunch of messages including ‘Connected to Flightware – logging in and so on). You can get a good idea of what is going on by checking the Piaware log file Hopefully, you will shortly see a message saying that PiAware has started. Start up another LX Terminal window and type The net parameter ensures that Dump1090 makes the data available to other applications (PiAware in our case). I used the quiet parameter to keep resource usage to a minimum. I had some issues (mostly my fault!) with PiAware versions prior to 1.7-1 – but that is working fine.īefore you start PiAware up (in Step 4), stop your Dump1090 if it’s still running and restart it as follows: Goto this page and you can start from step 2. Having got this going, you can install the PiAware software. If everything is working, you should start to see some data coming through from the aircraft in your area. Navigate to your dump1090 directory (dump1090_mr in my case) Having compiled this – assuming you have installed RTL-SDR and have your RTLSDR stick, with an antenna (the little antenna which comes with the stick should work fine), plugged into the Pi – or a connected USB hub, it’s time to see if you can receive any ADS-B transmissions Git clone git:///MalcolmRobb/dump1090.git It appears that this shouldn’t be necessary and you can use a ‘regular’ version of Dump1090, but I decided that my chances were improved of getting it working if I did this! – Having read around a little, I decided to install a Flightaware specific version of Dump1090. – After some issues, I decided to ensure that Raspbian was updated: sudo apt-get upgrade (this takes a while!) It was a while since I had run Dump1090 on my Pi, so I had to do a bit of work to get things in a state where PiAware would work.

The instructions from Flightaware are good and comprehensive and can be found here I had a copy of PlanePlotter anyway, but this looked like a fun challenge to get working. So, if you don’t have a copy of PlanePlotter and would like one – this is a nice bonus for setting up and sending your data into Flightaware. FlightAware will also give users a free Enterprise Account ($90/month value) in return for installing PiAware. If you don’t have PlanePlotter, you can download it and then send FlightAware your installation’s serial number and we’ll buy you a license. The PiAware installation process takes only a few minutes.

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