Is it possible to feed without PI / Desktop / Laptop ? #flightaware:ads-b-flight-tracking #justasking #feeding #noobie
How would you propose to convert the radio waves from the antenna into useful data and send them to the flightaware servers?
Are you asking for a preconfigured device?
There are such devices but they are expensive.
Best bet is to use a raspberry pi with the sd card image.
Not sure what your question is though 
This is a standalone device.
You can even get a model with two independent antenna inputs. They are not cheap. I have the single antenna model. It has been running well for almost 2 years.
It says 455 days, however, that is because it couldnāt run piaware well until last year.
Looking for posibility of DIY of FR24, radarbox kindā¦ So in such devices, planning for multifeed is terrible.
there are multiple threads around about feeding multiple sites.
there is even a script to create sd cards for the raspberry pi with multiple feeders.
And if you donāt want to spend the 600 euros linked above you are not getting around it so type it into google and start reading
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thanks, I am aware of it PIawareā¦
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This part does not need a computerā¦just a tuning coil, and a diode detector made of cat whisker + galena/iron pyrite crystal
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And of course the radarcape is basically a (custom) receiver + a SBC + a suitable software image ā¦ same concept as a PiAware receiver, which is a SDR receiver + a SBC (the Pi) + a suitable software image.
Iām not sure what the OP wants here - they seem to want to avoid the ācomputerā part but why?
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just a wired thoughtā¦
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We have a saying back home: One fool throws a rock in the lake and a hundred smart guys are trying to get it outā¦
Very good one!
My ābeefā, and itās nothing particular to the FA Forum, is that once something goes āmainstreamā, the number of people unable and/or unwilling to think, search, read, interpret, and try things out on their own increase exponentially. We then enter the āspoon feeding phaseā. The fun is gone, the learning is non existent. This is when I step back, and look for āgreener pasturesā.
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You want to run a cable from each plane??
If Iāve got it right, you want to receive a 1mS transmission which contains either a 57 or 112 bit message and then decode something useful out of it without using a computer.
Good luck with that.