FlightAware not receiving my adsb data after reinstall, even though piaware is sending it

Hello techie enthusiasts.

I have been uploading to Fr24, Planefinder and Flightaware for a few weeks, trouble free and very satisfactory. Then, while trying to enable some features, I messed up my settings while editing config files, and after trying to sort things out via console commands (I am a total linux dud) I decided the best thing to do, would be to remove dump1090-fa and piaware and purge the files and directories involved.

Then when I reinstalled the packages, FR24 and Planefinder worked fine, uploading and recognising my data, but my flightaware page shows no uploading (or at least not recognised as my uploading).

I made sure that my unique identifier (share code) was available to piaware, and used commands to test piaware status. The status enquiry shows that my feeder is connected and uploading to flightaware and that it knows my unique identifier, but still no recognition on my ADSB feeder page. Red boxes and no acknowledgement. The piaware status enquiry gives this response:

pi@pi24-bookworm:~ $ sudo piaware-status
PiAware master process (piaware) is running with pid 17245.
PiAware ADS-B client (faup1090) is running with pid 17262.
PiAware ADS-B UAT client (faup978) is not running (disabled by configuration settings)
PiAware mlat client (fa-mlat-client) is not running.
Local ADS-B receiver (dump1090-fa) is running with pid 667.

dump1090-fa (pid 667) is listening for ES connections on port 30005.
faup1090 is connected to the ADS-B receiver.
piaware is connected to FlightAware.

dump1090 is producing data on localhost:30005.

Your feeder ID is b8027f41-b12e-48de-aa79 [ I edited this ID code for security] (from /var/cache/piaware/feeder_id)
pi@pi24-bookworm:

Does anyone have a clue how I can mend this broken setup?

It looks to me as if somehow the problem may not be on my system, but on the flightaware site.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can make.

Tony

Just to prove that my adsb pi system is uploading to Flightaware, here is the output of journalctl.

sudo journalctl -u piaware -n 20
Apr 16 11:13:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 52865 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (988 in last 5m); 52865 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:18:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 53874 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1009 in last 5m); 53874 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:23:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 54930 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1056 in last 5m); 54930 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:28:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 56204 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1274 in last 5m); 56204 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:33:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 57464 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1260 in last 5m); 57464 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:38:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 58551 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1087 in last 5m); 58551 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:43:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 59759 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1208 in last 5m); 59759 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:48:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 61111 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1352 in last 5m); 61111 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:53:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 62291 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1180 in last 5m); 62291 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 11:58:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 63443 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1152 in last 5m); 63443 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:03:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 64587 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1144 in last 5m); 64587 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:08:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 65876 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1289 in last 5m); 65876 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:13:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 67046 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1170 in last 5m); 67046 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:18:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 68233 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1187 in last 5m); 68233 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:23:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 69418 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1185 in last 5m); 69418 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:28:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 70442 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1024 in last 5m); 70442 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:33:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 71490 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1048 in last 5m); 71490 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:38:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 72609 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1119 in last 5m); 72609 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:43:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 73935 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1326 in last 5m); 73935 msgs sent to FlightAware
Apr 16 12:48:49 pi24-bookworm piaware[17245]: 75414 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (1479 in last 5m); 75414 msgs sent to FlightAware
pi@pi24-bookworm:~ $

did you try to get your unique identifier correctly into the system:

It looks like it is sending indeed but doesn’t know where to connect the data to ( in this case your setup).

Many thanks for responding tomvdhorst.

I am very embarrassed.

I found the issue. I looked around my config files and I eventually found the file containing the user id. When I checked, the first character of my correct identifier was missing in the config file. I had entered it manually creating a file (under direction from ChatGpt. The mistake was a pretty stupid one. As soon as I edited the file and rebooted the system so that piaware had the correct code - everything cam eback to normal.

:slight_smile:

Thanks for your help.

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