I have a single raspi running 3 SDRs:
Station 164961 has piaware with dump1090 and dump978
Station 166625 is running a second instance of piaware with dump1090-fa2 per the following thread:
The second station was added (with a low gain antenna) and to cover taxiing aircraft at my base to enable me to use the power-on and taxi alerts for those that need to know where I am and what I’m doing.
Now that I have complicated everything and I am in way over my head, I would like to know if there is an easy way to forward data (by say, modifying my /etc/default/dump1090-fa and /etc/default/dump1090-fa2 files) to get the data into one station. There isn’t much overlap between the two stations because the gain settings and antenna setup are very different.
I see lots of threads on the general topic, but it seems to be people working through similar aggregation tasks but without a clear final “here’s what to do”. For instance, I don’t thing I need to use a solution with “socat” because both 1090’s are running on the same device (I serialized the three SDRs to 00000978, 00001090, & 00001092 with the middle one being the short-range receiver)
Could anyone point me in the right direction of which lines I should modify in these two dump1090 configs:
/etc/default/dump1090-fa
> # Generated automatically by /usr/lib/piaware-support/generate-receiver-config
> # This file will be overwritten on reboot.
> ENABLED=yes
> CONFIG_STYLE=6
> RECEIVER=rtlsdr
> RECEIVER_SERIAL=00001092
> RECEIVER_GAIN=45
> ADAPTIVE_DYNAMIC_RANGE=no
> ADAPTIVE_DYNAMIC_RANGE_TARGET=
> ADAPTIVE_BURST=no
> ADAPTIVE_MIN_GAIN=
> ADAPTIVE_MAX_GAIN=
> SLOW_CPU=auto
> WISDOM=
> ERROR_CORRECTION=yes
> RECEIVER_LAT=
> RECEIVER_LON=
> MAX_RANGE=360
> NET_RAW_INPUT_PORTS=
> NET_RAW_OUTPUT_PORTS=30002
> NET_SBS_OUTPUT_PORTS=30003
> NET_BEAST_INPUT_PORTS=30004,30104
> NET_BEAST_OUTPUT_PORTS=30005
> JSON_LOCATION_ACCURACY=2
> EXTRA_OPTIONS=
> OVERRIDE_OPTIONS=
/etc/default/dump1090-fa2
> # dump1090-fa2 configuration
> # This is sourced by /usr/share/dump1090-fa/start-dump1090-fa2 as a
> # shellscript fragment.
>
> # If you are using a PiAware sdcard image, this config file is regenerated
> # on boot based on the contents of piaware-config.txt; any changes made to this
> # file will be lost.
>
> # dump1090-fa2 won't automatically start unless ENABLED=yes
> ENABLED=yes
>
> RECEIVER_OPTIONS2="--device-index 00001090 --gain 39 --ppm 0 --net-bo-port 31005"
> DECODER_OPTIONS2="--max-range 360"
> NET_OPTIONS2="--net --net-heartbeat 60 --net-ro-size 1000 --net-ro-interval 1 --net-ri-port 0 --net-ro-port 31002 --net-sbs-port 31003 --net-bi-port 31004,31104 --net-bo-port 31005"
> JSON_OPTIONS2="--json-location-accuracy 1"
My apologies for dumping all this into the forum, but I’d appreciate any help since I just got lucky getting the whole thing going in the first place and have no idea what I’m doing. Before setting up this Raspi, the last time I logged into a unix terminal was in 1994 playing with Slackware in the days of dialup internet.
-AP