SUCCESS!
OK, so I tried what abcd567 suggested, and it seemed to work, but did not survive the reboot. So, I tried again, this time using the dump1090-mutability, and for the first time, was asked to assign the dongles. I finished the setup, and left it to run overnight. Not much 978 action between midnight and dawn, however, just before 9am, I picked up my first 978 target. AND to add icing to the cake, 1090 is working as well. I couldn’t be happier.
Thank you abcd578 and weidehopf for sticking with me on this. I gladly buy you a beer, or a case, if we ever meet.
Now I’m gonna clone the SD card, and see about adding some other feeders.
One last (probably not) question. I have to run the “./dump978-maint.sh” command manually after booting to get it to work. How/where do I place the run command to have the dump978 run at boot?
My antenna on this rig is about 4 feet off the ground on a cookie tin on my back (aluminum) screened patio. I have a 30 foot pole for my other rig. Once I get this squared away, I’ll climb up there and replace the SD card with the new and improved version.
I saw a thread about a combo 978/1090 antenna on the adsb-x forum. I may spring for one of those.
Thanks again
Not sure yet. Haven’t had a target on there long enough to match up to FA. I may take a ride out to the hangar and test it with a battery and Wifi hotspot this weekend.
No, you dont have to manually run anything. When the RPi boots, the dump978-maint.sh is started automatically by /etc/rc.local, as the JP’s installation scripts adds following startup line in it.
You do NOT need to run ./dump978-maint.sh manually. It is run by /etc/rc.local automatically every time you boot/reboot.
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The dump978 feeds UAT978 planes to dump1090-mutability (or fa) on port 30001. The dump1090-mutability (or fa) adds this data to their own data and pass to Piaware data feeder, which sends it to Flightaware.
