Connection Lost

Good Evening,

i Use a Raspberry Pi for FlightAware and I am finding that every 2-3 days the “Hourly Received Reports” shows no reports received for hours on end until I reboot the device. This happens at random times of day and night so I am not sure what is going on. |The device has a very good cooling fan on it so its not overheating. Any ideas please on how to troubleshoot what is happening?

Please find below extract from the log rom this afternoon when it was reporting no data:

[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] mlat-client(991): Lost connection to localhost:30005
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] mlat-client(991): Reconnecting in 30.0 seconds
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] lost connection to dump1090-fa via faup1090
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] mlat-client(991): Beast-format results connection with 127.0.0.1:30104: connection lost
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] faup1090 exited normally
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] reconnecting to dump1090-fa
[2023-03-19 14:39 GMT] no ADS-B data program seen listening on port 30005 for 1 seconds, next check in 60s
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Connection to localhost:30005 lost: [Errno 111] Connection refused
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Beast-format results connection with ::1:30104: [Errno 111] Connection refused
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Reconnecting in 0.5 seconds
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Reconnecting in 30.0 seconds
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Connection to localhost:30005 lost: [Errno 111] Connection refused
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Beast-format results connection with 127.0.0.1:30104: connection established
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Input connected to localhost:30005
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] Starting faup1090: /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout --lat 52.523 --lon -3.319
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] ADS-B data program ‘dump1090-fa’ is listening on port 30005, so far so good
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Input format changed to BEAST, 12MHz clock
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] Started faup1090 (pid 1302) to connect to dump1090-fa
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Reconnecting in 30.0 seconds
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] lost connection to dump1090-fa via faup1090
[2023-03-19 14:40 GMT] mlat-client(991): Beast-format results connection with 127.0.0.1:30104: connection lost

A poor quality or ageing power supply often shows this behaviour.
Try swapping the PSU and see if there is any change.

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I have swapped the PSU this evening so will see if that helps.

many thanks for the suggestion.

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