Hello,
I’m new to this. Using Piaware 7.2 as an image on a Raspberry Pi 3.
Now I am able to use SkyAware Anywhere to view the map etc. But I have a monitor connected to the Raspberry Pi and I would like to see SkyAware on that monitor. In short: Is it possible to install a GUI?
Regards,
Brainbox
You can use a web browser to navigate to the Pi, the IP address is on your stats page. Or click the link on your stats page to view the local interface. There’s no GUI attached to the image. Then you should do a package based install on top of a full raspberry pi OS installation
Recently I have added GUI to RaspberryPi OS LITE and Piaware SD card image by following commands
sudo apt update
sudo apt install raspberrypi-ui-mods
sudo apt install rpi-chromium-mods
sudo reboot
NOTE:
It took my Pi4 about one and a half hour to install the GUI, as a huge number of packages are installed by the commands I have given above.
After above commands & reboot, you can see RPi desktop on Monitor connected to Pi.
This Desktop has a web browser. Its starting icon is at top left of screen. You can see skyaware map by starting that browser and typing following in it’s address bar:
localhost/skyaware/
OR
127.0.0.1/skyaware
My Pi4 was already setup with GUI before I added Piaware. I’m wondering if it would have run cooler if it had less bloatware.
I used VNC to access one of my remote Pis at Phillip Island (near the MotoGP track)
It is a Pi3 running Piaware, RBfeeder, tar1090 and graphs1090
Dump1090 runs 49% most of the time and VNC Server runs about 7% when it is actually in use.
In this instance the GUI is very useful and not detremental.
It is mounted outside and gets hot or cold depending on sunlight on the box.
The last 7 days
S
