A helicopter with UAT - Version 3.7.1 Add-on Package Install.
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Anyone know how to change the range ring distances for skyview 978? I have googled this board and the internet in general the last 2 hours and cant find diddly. However I swear I saw it before…?
sudo nano /usr/share/skyview978/html/config.js
- Press Ctrl+w Keys
- Type (or copy-paste)
SiteCircles - Press Enter Key
The cursor will jump to the this piece of code:
SiteCircles = true; // true to show circles (only shown if the center marker is shown)
// In miles, nautical miles, or km (depending settings value 'DisplayUnits')
SiteCirclesDistances = new Array(100,150,200);
Change (100, 150, 200) to desired values of ring radii.
Save (Ctrl+o) and Close (Ctrl+x)
Reload browser (Ctrl+F5). If necessary clear browser cache (Ctrl+Shift+Delete).
ENJOY 
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Looks like Flightaware does not accept 1090 ADS-B messages from 3.7.1 setups. This is what I see in the logs:
May 6 08:31:58 raspberrypi piaware[568]: 20264 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (745 in last 5m); 20264 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 6 08:31:58 raspberrypi piaware[568]: 15 msgs recv’d from dump978-fa (0 in last 5m); 15 msgs sent to FlightAware
And this is what my stats say: https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/varnav
Looks like this low (but non 0) amount of ADS-B messages reflects 978 MHz messages only.
That’s only the count for the last 5 min.
No, I’m about the stats page. Don’t see my 20264 messages there, but I definitely see those 15.
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Correct. 3.7.1 has not been released yet, despite the existence of the tag; you’re essentially running an unreleased version and all bets are off; in particular we have not done the server-side release, which is why your data is being thrown away.
I appreciate the enthusiasm in picking up the new version but it sure would be a lot simpler to wait for the release.
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Thanks for clarification. No worries, I better sacrifice feeding some of the info to FA for now but prepare my 978 MHz setup for the release. BTW, when it is expected?
Same here. No problem if data is thrown away and stats are poor, as it is a temporary situation.
From table below, you can find when I switched to 3.7.1
STATION #5252
The ver 3.7.1 add-on package install is working OK and sending data to Flightaware, but my stats (Station #5252) at Flightaware are poor due to rejection of this data by FA Servers, as pointed out by @obj
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status piaware
● piaware.service - FlightAware ADS-B uploader
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-05-05 22:16:30 EDT; 16h ago
Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
Main PID: 471 (piaware)
CGroup: /system.slice/piaware.service
├─ 471 /usr/bin/piaware -p /run/piaware/piaware.pid -plainlog -statusfile /run/piaware/status.json
├─ 1004 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout --lat 43.xxx --lon -79.xxx
├─20613 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup978 --connect localhost:30978
└─26882 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/fa-mlat-client --input-connect localhost:30005 --input-type dump1090 --results beast,connect,l
May 06 14:51:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: mlat-client(26882): Receiver: 302.8 msg/s received 98.5 msg/s processed (33%)
May 06 14:51:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: mlat-client(26882): Server: 0.1 kB/s from server 0.0kB/s TCP to server 1.1kB/s UDP t
May 06 14:51:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: mlat-client(26882): Results: 49.1 positions/minute
May 06 14:51:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: mlat-client(26882): Aircraft: 9 of 27 Mode S, 23 of 34 ADS-B used
May 06 14:52:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 152952 msgs recv'd from dump1090-fa (1324 in last 5m); 152938 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 06 14:52:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 725 msgs recv'd from dump978-fa (0 in last 5m); 725 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 06 14:57:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 154280 msgs recv'd from dump1090-fa (1328 in last 5m); 154266 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 06 14:57:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 725 msgs recv'd from dump978-fa (0 in last 5m); 725 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 06 15:02:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 155716 msgs recv'd from dump1090-fa (1436 in last 5m); 155702 msgs sent to FlightAware
May 06 15:02:07 raspberrypi piaware[471]: 727 msgs recv'd from dump978-fa (2 in last 5m); 727 msgs sent to FlightAware
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Looks like all 1090 ADS-B data is thrown away by FA servers, while MLAT data and, most importantly, 978 UAT ADS-B data is accepted. I see two flights partially tracked by my 978 part:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9169B/history/20190507/1500Z/KBOS/S37/tracklog
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N1373M/history/20190507/1509Z/tracklog
KBED source is my UAT tracker.
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Yep, same for me.
BTW, this will beep when 978 aircraft appears:
while true ; do curl -s http://localhost:8978/data/aircraft.json | grep 'hex' && echo -e '\a' ; sleep 10 ; done
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I have node-red doing something equivalent to the following to send SMS text messages when a UAT ADSB record is received. This does not trigger very often.
nc adsb3 30979 | grep '"address_qualifier":0.*callsign'
Today build & installed ver 3.7.1 package on Armbian / Orange Pi PC (Station #6396).
Used method in this post:
Version 3.7.1 Add-on Package Install
Now both stations (#5252 & #6396) are on ver 3.7.1
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I’m getting errors on this step. Can you help.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd dump978
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $ git checkout v3.7.1
HEAD is now at f0abceb… Reduce Skyview range ring distances for UAT
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $ Note: checking out ‘v3.7.1’.
-bash: Note:: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $ HEAD is now at ff80def… Release v3.7.1
-bash: HEAD: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $ sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package dump978-fa
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 3.7.1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution stable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Eric Tran eric.tran@flightaware.com
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture armhf
dpkg-source --before-build dump978
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libboost-system-dev libboo st-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libsoapysdr-de v
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $
pi@raspberrypi:~/dump978 $ cd …/
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg -i dump978-fa_3.7.1_armhf.deb
dpkg: error: cannot access archive ‘dump978-fa_3.7.1_armhf.deb’: No such file or directory
Just don’t compile them, they are available as packages now.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install dump978-fa skyview978
Then continue with the configuration.
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Please go ahead with @wiedehopf’s advise to do a package install. This is the easiest way to do it now as the packages are now available.
Just to tell you what caused the problem to build the package is that you missed to issue commands to install dependencies.
Were these two packages pulled? Getting this:
pi@Pi3Ofc:~ $ sudo apt install dump978-fa
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package dump978-fa
pi@Pi3Ofc:~ $ sudo apt install skyview978
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package skyview978
Same place where piaware is coming from.
Did you run sudo apt update as described?