NO
They are not generous like FA.
They keep MLAT calculation results with themselves and do NOT share it with feeders.
If you dont already have a fr24 key, use following command to complete signup and obtain a key, which will automatically be saved in config file /etc/fr24feed.ini as well as sent to you by email.
sudo fr24feed --signup
CAUTION:
Never use FR24 setting receiver="dvbt".
This setting will install dump1090-mutability ver 1.14, which will conflict/compete for dongle with dump1090-fa, and result in a mess
Well that’s jolly well not cricket. I won’t bother feeding them if they have that attitude to users. I suppose they want feeders to use their shiny “free” Business Plan and app to view the results on their service – minus the interesting aircraft they filter out, of course.
I’m already signed up from ages ago with a Basic account. I’ve just logged in but I don’t appear to have a stats page to go to. There are probably others in the same boat. I’m not going to be feeding them but it’s worth tweaking your excellent guide to cover this particular situation, since I obviously wouldn’t be signing up a second time when I already have an account.
You don’t have to create another account.
When signing up by command sudo fr24feed --signup , just use the email which you used to create the already existing account. Next it will ask for sharing key. Leave it blank and press Enter key. You will get a new key linked to your existing account. This way you can get up to 3 keys under one account.
In 3.8.0, if a static IP address is configured in /boot/piaware-config.txt, e.g. “wired-type static” or “wireless-type static”, you will encounter a typo that causes the static network configuration to fail.
Fix: edit line 99 of /usr/lib/piaware-support/generate-network-config
I think that maybe this may be an issue for me but can’t seem to find the folder piaware-support
I tried to follow the path but don’t find that folder?
I am apparently running 3.8.0 and would like to upgrade to 3.8.1 where I understand this problem is supposedly fixed but am not sure how to accomplish the upgrade just yet either.
Click on the gray gear icon and select the “Upgrade and restart PiAware” Device command and hit Send. Allow a few minutes for the upgrade to finish and you should then be on 3.8.1 with the static IP fix.
@eric1tran Thank you very much for this info ! That makes it easy One question… I am feeding FlightAware and Flightradar24. Will the update have any effect on Flightradar24?
I have installed many other feeders on my Piaware SD card (FlightRadar24, Planefinder, RadarBox24, AdsbExchange, OpenSky). The upgrade of Piaware did NOT affect these in any way.
Simple way, log into your FlightAware page, locate orange bar with your site number on it Look to the right, click on the gear icon. You now scroll down to the new window and locate " Device Commands". Use the drop down to familiarize yourself with the various command options that are available. Select the upgrade choice, and send that to your PiAware device. Will trigger upgrade, and restart service. Super easy.
New Piaware user here.
I have a Pi Zero W running something else (pi-star), I can confirm the OS is Raspbian Buster. My question is, can I run PiAware on top of that? Is it CPU or memory heavy at all?
It depends on the traffic you have and which Stick you want to use.
I am using the blue FA stick with filter and LNA.
On busy days with up to 150 aircraft at the same time, the CPU usage of my RPi 4 is approx 10-12%, but i am running nothing else than that.
One thing I noticed after I removed the --fix option to reduce my single-message tracks (on 3.8.1) is that my CPU% dropped immediately by 4-6% and stayed that way. So this suggests the --fix option itself requires noticable computation.
