Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this problem.
Been a feeder for over a year. Suddenly, past day or two, my PiAware isn’t running properly and isn’t feeding.
When i ssh on my home network to the Pi, and run ‘top,’ dump1090-fa is no longer in the list. When i run ‘sudo systemctl restart dump1090-fa’ it is still not on the ‘top’ list. Re-boot doesn’t remedy the issue.
I thought that perhaps i needed to do the software update, so i followed the instructions in the email that was sent out. As far as i can tell, no update occurs. I’m not sure that an update can even occur, since i’m sending the update command from a computer other than the Pi. My ISP changed its networks recently – one person said it is now NATed but i don’t know if that is the case – and for some other apps of mine (for which i’d set up port forwarding), those apps won’t work. (The ISP said i would need a static IP.)
I’m wondering if that could explain why no update is happening. FA can’t find a return path to my Pi. Is there a way to do a command-line update of PiAware from the Pi itself?
You replied as I was typing this, but it may be useful for future reference.
You can check if dump1090 is running by doing:
piaware-status
which will show whether the various piaware components are running or not.
You can also see if dump1090-fa is running directly by doing:
sudo systemctl status dump1090-fa
That will tell you directly the status of the dump1090-fa service, and may show any error messages from it failing to start.
You can search the system log for error messages relating to dump1090 by doing:
sudo journalctl -u dump1090-fa.service
which will print any recent messages logged by dump1090 and may give some clue as to what was happening.
As far as NAT is concerned, that is not a problem at all for feeding data - the piaware client makes an outgoing connection to the server, so there is no need for you to have a static IP. If you ping flightaware.com on the pi and get a response then you should have no issues feeding data.
It’s possible the rtl dongle became unstable for a period which does sometimes happen due power supply fluctuations and has since recovered.
If nothing had changed on the software side when this happened, then this is probably a hardware issue that’s developed over time - the most common cause is your power supply going bad. Try swapping the PSU.
Thanks caius for all the syntax examples. Am copying those to my journal.
There have been a couple very short power outages here lately. One of these days it’ll result in a corrupt SD card (happened once about 14 months ago) and i know what to do in that case.
