Was wondering if it is possible to use 2 sticks on 1 raspberry pi 3
Because I am not able to place an antenna on the rooftop and now running 2 raspberry pi’s (on the north side and south side of the house)
I think it is more effective to use 2 sticks on 1 pi…
Anybody did this already?
And the most important question HOW
Asked already on Twitter
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And got this answer so… i will give it a shot
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If you really want to use two dongles on one device then the next easiest way is to feed the second dongle without timing information (so that MLAT is not done with this traffic). You won’t get all of the MLAT traffic you get with two piawares, but you should get most of it.
Feed the second dongle using modes2deco on port 30001 ( using avr format) xdeco.org/?page_id=39
Something like this
./modesdeco2 --gain 49.6 --device-index --web 8081 --avr 31001 --location lat: long &
modesmixer2 --inConnect 127.0.0.1:31001 --outConnect 127.0.0.1:30001
Make sure dump1090-fa is listening for AVR on tcp 30001
With 3.3.0 you should be able to run a second piaware using the -cachedir and -configfile options to keep the two isolated from each other (you will need to make a second systemd service file for the second instance), then you can configure the second one with receiver-type other and point it at a different port for the second dongle and mlat should be OK on both.
(All untested/experimental - let me know how you get on if you do go that way)
