Announcing PiAware 5!

I’ve updated dump-1090 and Piaware on two RPis and no longer have Skyaware (+other programs)

I have an early Raspberry Pi Zero and although it is at version 4.0 I get this: [Site 56684]

Release file for http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 40min 42s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

This usually happens when the system time is off on the Pi. Can you see what date returns?

Upgraded my 2 stations, one with RTL-SDR dongle went fine, but the one with the Airspy mini not working at all.
On the Airspy mini, no maps, nothing, as though the web server is not running. On virtual Radar I don’t see it either, yet the log on FlightAware seems to show it is receiving messages… guess I will have to dig a bit.

It is an hour and a half slow. How do you correct? Edit: Sorted by installing NTP.

Successfully upgraded to ver 5.0 by RE-IMAGING

(1) Stn 5252 - RPi Model 2 / Piaware SD card image v 5.0

1.1 - Down loaded and wrote following image to microSD card
http://piaware.flightcdn.com/piaware-sd-card-5.0.img.zip

1.2 - Followed instructions here
How to Install and Configure Piaware 5.0 SD card image - Quickstart Guide

 

(2) Stn 6396 - OrangePiPC / Armbian Buster

1.1 - Down loaded and wrote following image to microSD card
https://redirect.armbian.com/orangepipc/Buster_current

1.2 - Followed instructions here
[Package Install] How to Install and Configure Piaware on Raspberry Pi OS Image / RPi

 

(3) Stn 76000 - RPi Model 4 / 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS

1.1 - Down loaded and wrote following image to microSD card
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2020-08-24/2020-08-20-raspios-buster-arm64.zip

1.2 - Build & Installed piaware and dump1090-fa using following bash scripts

PIAWARE

sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/piaware-64bit-raspbian/main/build-and-install-piaware.sh)" 

NOTE: Please be patient. This will take very long time, as the script first installs build tools & dependency packages, and after that downloads source code & builds piaware from source code.

 

DUMP1090-FA

sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/piaware-64bit-raspbian/main/build-and-install-dump1090.sh)"  

NOTE: Please be patient. This will take very long time, as the script first installs build tools & dependency packages, and after that downloads source code & builds dump1090-fa from source code.

 

dump1090-fa

 

dump978-fa

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I have to say that lighttpd is the most annoying piece of software. Every time piaware updates the config breaks for one reason or another and I have to rummage around to find out what has broken. In this case there was a duplicated server.modules += ( "mod_setenv" ) and a duplicated \data section that was preventing it start. It’s probably OK if there is only one thing using it, but if you have any other software installed it then it’s highly likely to be problematic.

Edit - just noticed the other thread talking about this issue if people look have the problem and look here first.

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Early days yet but I am seeing a 15% increase in CPU? Others see the same?

Overall CPU as below:

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To avoid all this hasstle, I simply re-image microSD card. No issues :slight_smile:

Re-imaging Made Easy

 

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Apologies in advance for the pedantic niggle…

Do you think you could set the PiAware status button to orange for those of us still running 4.0?

To me red implies PiAware has fatal issues, and the older version is still running quite happily. In this case it is just an advisory, not requiring immediate action.

I’m not planning to upgrade for a few days until the main issues are fixed or worked around, and seeing a red status flag every time I look at my stats page is annoying.

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That is significantly more hassle than just fixing lighttpd given the location of the pi and what else is installed on it.

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IIRC you are running an AirSpy with Progs decoder.
Did CPU usage increase much with the update to PiAware 5?

I’m running an Airspy mini on an Odroid XU4 and not noticed any increase in CPU usage after the update.

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i have an SD card install and running AirSpy mini. with PiAware 5 i see maybe a 2% to 3% increase in CPU usage…barely noticable

This is true if Pi is not physically accessable easily, and/or one has installed speciality hardware/software like AirSpy dongle etc.

In my case all my Pi’s are easily accessable physically, and I dont have speciality hardware/software. No AirSpy dongle, only FA Pro Plus and RB Flight Sticks. For me reimaging was the easiest and fastest solution.

I also had many problems was using 4.1 but after 3 hours all fixed thanks ro rhe forums here
many thanks to all
pi x 2 version 5

I’m seeing an 8%ish increase in cpu usage.

Yes I am. I haven’t seen any significant change in cpu.

what is the location of the index.html now in piaware 5?
edited the file in /usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/index.html but had no effect …

for package installations can we not simply “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y”