FA Feeder stopped working

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Hello

My RPi - FA Prostick Plus setup has suddenly stopped feeding data. The software (dump1090-fa and Piaware) is fully up-to-date and I have tried a different Prostick and the problem still exists.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it may have stopped?

Thank you

The log shows the following errors:

Error message

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Does it show data on your local web server? (/skyaware or /skyaware978)
Mine stopped sending data to FA, but still works locally.
Can use different dongles with no difference, swapped with test bed system, all dongles work fine.

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Oddly, your piaware is not even reporting normal logging after it connects.
Can you check /var/log/piaware.log and see what it’s saying?

The only other odd thing I notice is that you appear to have a dump1090-mutability package installed (this is obsolete) which is perhaps conflicting with something.

Can you try a fresh image?

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All your sites seem healthy at the moment - did you resolve this OK?
(Usually losing connection to dump1090 means you have hardware problems and dump1090 is bailing out – a reboot may be sufficient to fix it)

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That is the problem. The site looks fine; but no data is being transmitted to FA.

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I am downloading it again to see if it is the same as the one I started with last month. The size looks to be the same, but, I will run checksum to see if it is any different.

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This is most likely result of configuring FR24 feeder with setting reciever="dvbt". With this setting, FR24 feeder triggers a script to install dump1090-mutability DEB_VER from Raspbian / Debian repository. In case of OS older than Buster, the dump1090-mutability is not available in Debian repository. In this case the script downloads dump1090-mutability ver 1.14 from mutability Github.

 

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cat /usr/lib/fr24/install_dump1090.sh 


if grep -q "^receiver.*dvbt" /etc/fr24feed.ini ; then
    if [ ! -e /usr/lib/fr24/dump1090 ] ; then
        echo "dump1090 is not found, downloading dump1090-mutability..."

        # to skip any questions from APT
        export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

        echo 'dump1090-mutability dump1090-mutability/auto-start boolean false' | debconf-set-selections -v

        apt-get update -y

        DUMP1090_IF_PRESENT=`apt-cache search --names-only '^dump1090-mutability.*' | awk '{ print $1 }' | head -n 1`

        apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" install librtlsdr0 libusb-1.0-0 dirmngr lighttpd wget $DUMP1090_IF_PRESENT -y

        if [ "$DUMP1090_IF_PRESENT" == "" ]; then
            # Download and install dump1090-mutability if not present in repository
            wget -O /tmp/dump1090-mutability_1.14_armhf.deb https://github.com/mutability/dump1090/releases/download/v1.14/dump1090-mutability_1.14_armhf.deb
            dpkg -i /tmp/dump1090-mutability_1.14_armhf.deb
            rm -f /tmp/dump1090-mutability_1.14_armhf.deb
        fi

        ln -s /usr/bin/dump1090-mutability /usr/lib/fr24/dump1090

 

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When you install FR24 feeder on new image, please do NOT select option "1 - DVBT Stick (USB)".

Select 4 or 5

 

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In file /etc/fr24feed.ini, use following:

EITHER
receiver=“avr-tcp”
host=“127.0.0.1:30002”

OR
receiver=“beast-tcp”
host=“127.0.0.1:30005”

 

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Good point, I will verify that. Thank you.

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How do you view these logs? I have piaware on the SD card but pi@piaware:~ $ /var/log/piaware.log returns -bash: /var/log/piaware.log: Permission denied

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You missed meow cat at start of command.

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A better option is following command:

sudo journalctl -u piaware -e

 

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