Just curious, how do I talk to my Pi? It is just running PiAware from a card that I installed into it.
From a terminal in your Desktop/Laptop, using SSH
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Guys,
My PiAware stopped a while ago (V5.?) and today I got it going again. After a lot of faffing turned out to be the PSU, (1000UF/10v cap died). In the mean time I suspected the Pi, then the SD card et al.
I failed to get the latest 6.1 zip download to work so after two fails made a Rasbian Lite and installed per instructions on top of that using SSH and cut n’paste from the web instructions. Its now all going but a question…
Originally I accessed the display as Port 8080. A few versions ago they included an intro-page at Port 80 (web default) on my local PiAware server showing a basic local receiver status from which I clicked through to the map display. What happened to the PiAware index page at Port 80 from version 6.X?
Currently I’ve added my own re-director “index.html” file at “/var/www/html/” to get around having to dial in the 8080 bit. Now just use “http://piaware1” to get to the main display.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- PAGE_LINK:"http://piaware1:8080" -->
<html lang="en-UK">
<head>
<!-- Prevent Caching of this Page -->
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"/>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"/>
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"/>
<!-- Cause Redirect to Latest Results Page -->
<meta name="description" content="Index Re-Direct: Sep 18 2021 to Port 8080" >
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://piaware1:8080">
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location.href = "http://piaware1:8080"
</script>
<title>Page Redirector</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Note: don't tell people to `click` the link, just tell them that it is a link. -->
If you are not redirected automatically, follow this <a href='http://piaware1:8080'>link to the latest results page.</a>.
<!-- Current html_index_redirector -->
</body>
</html>
Is that intermediate status page no longer supported? I liked that, told me locally when it was broken.
sudo apt install piaware-web
It’s not included in the package install.
wiedehopf,
Brilliant. Thanks.
Anyone want to suggest the install page gets updated to include this?
I’m running Piaware on a Pi Zero-W. I upgraded my Pi that I used only for 978 Mhz to 6.0 and get this error. I’m updated everything and rebooted a couple times. Any ideas on how to fix?
[2021-09-16 18:33 CDT] attempting to restart dump978-fa using ‘systemctl --no-block try-restart dump978-fa.service < /dev/null’…
[2021-09-16 18:33 CDT] no ADS-B data program seen listening on port 30978 for 202 seconds, next check in 60s
When did you update? Your UAT receiver stopped sending data a few days before we released 6.0. May want to look into issues with the USB cable or radio.
I unplugged and plugged in my usb connections. Now getting these messages.
[2021-09-18 23:31 CDT] 1 msgs recv’d from dump978-fa; 0 msgs sent to FlightAware
[2021-09-18 23:36 CDT] 1 msgs recv’d from dump978-fa (0 in last 5m); 0 msgs sent to FlightAware
Looks like it’s working now. Monitor it when there’s UAT traffic around.
Works fine. Thank you for your help.
So this might sound like a FAQ but I was wondering if someone might know something about updating a old version: PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 3.5.3. This build was initially built as a feeder (I believe I used jprochazka’s ADS-B Receiver Project) to Flightaware, Flightradar24, PlaneFinder and ADS-B Exchange. It’s been so long since I built this package, I’ve forgotten how I even built it. Its on a mountain top and I don’t want to mess with it because if it goes down (or hangs) it takes me a while to get up to it to rebooter re-configure.
So, my question is; should I be able to go in and force it to update the FA engine within the feeder program or will I need to rebuild a completely new system and then try to incorporate a feeder into the new build? Also, somewhere I saw a reference to building a feeder using version FA-5.0 some time ago and wonder if the same procedure applies to FA-6?
Sorry for the long inquire, I’ve been putting off updating for quite a while and before the system crashes I figured I better see about updating and backing up the RaspberryPI and the ADS-B Receiver software.
Thanks,
Eric
Depends which version of OS (Raspbian) is installed on it.
Please post output of following two commands:
uname -a
cat /etc/os-release
Thanks for responding. Here is the reply regarding the version I am currently using:
pi@raspberrypi : ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi : ~ $
pi@raspberrypi : ~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“9”
VERSION=“9 (stretch)”
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“http://www.raspbian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“RaspbianForums - Raspbian”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“RaspbianBugs - Raspbian”
pi@raspberrypi : ~ $
First try to upgrade from your stats page.
Go to https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/
Then click the gear
Scroll down and issue 3 device commands one by one to upgrade and restart following:
- piaware
- dump1090-fa
- dump978-fa (if already installed)
For some reason that feature is disabled in the version of feeder I’ve got. Not sure how to enable it. Like I said earlier, this receiver is located on a remote mountain top so I don’t “play” with any of the settings and it’s also been up for about 4 years without any interaction other than an occasional reboot from a power or network glitch. I do have SSH enabled and I can reach it through the firewall to run update commands; apt-get, if that would help…
Check /boot/piaware-config.txt for the line
allow-manual-updates yes
If it’s set to no change it to yes and reboot
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Due this bug i lost my longest Streak of 1094 days. Feeder outage for 1 day and support says it cannot restore my streak time. Is this really true ?
This can be enabled if you have access to it throgh internet and can SSH to it from your home or office computer. If you can, then in SSH terminal give these commands to enable sending commands from your FA stats page:
sudo piaware-config allow-manual-updates yes
sudo piaware-config allow-auto-updates yes
sudo systemctl restart piaware
yes, that’s the definition
Well, sure it is. But I can see that it would feel pretty crappy to have a 3+ year streak ended by a software update that included an acknowledged (and eventually patched) bug.
And then have “support” respond with “bummer days, dude! better luck next time!”
I think they (FA) could do better in this case.