I installed the FR24 feed on my FA RPi. It worked OK for 2 days, after that the FR24 stats page is 2 days behind, and even then it only shows an uptime of around 15-20%, while online 100% of the time. The FA part continues to work perfectly during the same period, aside from yesterday’s FA glitch.
I tried to find an answer on the FR24 page but was unsuccessful. Since many here feed to FR24 as well, I’m hoping somebody can shed some light on what is going on.
FR24 receiving servers are not that stable to be honest.
What status is on the FR24feed software ? disconnected or online no data ? Both are coming from their servers with sometimes randomly breaking up the connection.
Sometimes a reboot of the router at your place can fix this since it has to rebuild the datapaths towards FR24.
I have 23 sites there and usually they are all back online after a router reboot and start to fail after a day or sometimes completly random. They will show either one of these conditions. You can look the status on the ip.adress.status.page:8754 page. (for example 192.168.2.102:8754)
If it fails to load the software is down on your end and the status will show offline on the datasharing page.
If you have disconnected on the local feeder page and online no data on the datasharing page of FR24 then the issue is at the FR24 side of the connection.
I’d recommend using this image which is configured via the webinterface:
If one site doesn’t work using that, it’s usually the site and not the image 
Also you can easily configure more sites, give https://adsb.lol/ and https://globe.airplanes.live/ and https://globe.adsb.fi/ a try.
Thank you!
I can neither check my local page nor reboot the router at the moment, but will do so as soon as possible. On the FR24 stats page it’s always online, at least everytime I check.
Thanks again.
I tried that image once but it did not work. I’m sure the problem was on my end, not the image. Since I only had one SD card on hand I went back to Piaware. I’ll get another SD card and try it again, since I like what that image does. Feeding sites is not a must for me, and that image allows local use only, if I’m not mistaken.
It lists on the main page which aggregators are supported.
All the sites you mentioned are supported.
If you want to do wifi, let it boot and wait for 3 minutes, check with your phone for a hotspot to configure the wifi.
Configuring wifi via the RPi imager should also work, actually probably not with the new imager (used to work with the old imager).
But really configuring using the hotspot is pretty simple.
It’s been a while, but I think I ran into problems after configuring it over the wifi. I’ll certainly try again. Please confirm it can be used standalone, no feeding to other sites, and also which of those sites is the best, I know very subjective, non-commercial site?
Thank you very much!
Didn’t you ask how to feed multiple sites?
I don’t get why you would want to use it without feeding sites.
And of course it can be configured to not share data with any aggregator, that’s pretty much the default?
You don’t need to run multiple pi, the pi4 will happily run the airspy R2 and feed all the sites that exist.
I already mentioned a couple sites above.
“Didn’t you ask how to feed multiple sites?”
No, not really. I did install FR24 but as I said, feeding sites is not a must. I was puzzled by the issue I have encountered with the FR24 feeder/stats page.
I’m leaning more and more towards not feeding any site.
“I don’t get why you would want to use it without feeding sites.”
What attracted me to your image was the UI and the other tools it has built-in.
“You don’t need to run multiple pi, the pi4 will happily run the airspy R2 and feed all the sites that exist.”
I’m currently running an RPi 2 Zero W, after “suffering” many years with 3 RPis 3B+. Not going back, and I’m not willing to upgrade the RPi to a higher model, at least not now.
“I already mentioned a couple sites above.”
OK, I’ll explore those in more details.
Many thanks!
The rpi 2 zero W is basically an rpi 3b+ with a more complicated USB situation.
rpi 3b+ have more memory though.
I don’t know about “a more complicated USB situation” but it did uncomplicate my ADS-B life. LOL
Most of the problems with the 3B+ were power related. Many power supplies used, no-name and brand name. Some wifi issues as well. As I said, I went through 3 of them (3B+).
My feeder has never been as stable as it’s now, since switching to the 2 Zero W about a year ago.
Nothing is forever, I’m sure the day will come that I’ll have to upgrade the RPi. I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.
Thanks again.