Is there a Piaware setting I can change to make all maps dark? I like the dark Carto maps for Skyaware traffic and they look especially nice on my big TV in the den. However, all are now watermarked. I played around with dark mode setings in the Brave browser (on an older Mac mini) and was able to get the plane listing dark but not the map itself.
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I am seeing the same API key message today. Other base maps do not give this message. No solution yet.
The API Key is now required by carto for access to the map. It looks like Flightaware will need to request the key and implement it in its base map required. See CARTO basemaps now require an API key — map shows "API KEY REQUIRED" watermark · Issue #90 · timmaurice/lovelace-blitzortung-lightning-card · GitHub
I requested the API to get rid of this, it’s free, but requires editing of some settings on the PI. I asked several LLMs, they helped me through the process and it eventually worked. You have to insert your free API they sent you in very specific places. If you need more details, let me know, we all run different setups.
And those insert places for a standard Piaware install are…?
for my setup on headless PI Bookworm (FR24) is to edit
sudo nano /usr/local/share/tar1090/git/html/layers.js
you will need to change all the Carto map queries to same queries but with your API key like this
url: 'https://basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
and so on for all the maps that you need. But this is my setup, i don’t run PiAware
for tar1090 that’s no longer necessary, a variable can now be set in config.js, see the config.js on github for the variable name.
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thank you!
Gives me a starting point to research. I don’t have high hopes. 