Guide to install PiAware on Raspberry Pi 4

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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PiAware - Claim and Link a Brand New PiAware Ground Station

Unfortunately, FlightAware hasn’t found a new, unclaimed PiAware feeder to claim.

FlightAware searches for PiAware connections on the same global IP (189.122.xxx or 2804:xxx:a388::1002) as your connection. If you are on the same LAN as the PiAware device, then we should be able to find the receiver and claim it for you. You should wait a few minutes after plugging in your PiAware device before expecting it to be connected to FlightAware. Try checking cable connections, waiting a few moments, and trying again.

If you are unable to use the automatic claim feature, please contact ADS-B Support.

Check Again for my PiAware

Linked PiAware Receivers (vsqz44)

Great news! Your account is associated with the following PiAware receivers and you can view your statistics here:
@abcd567

  1. Site 148265 - e8ed06c7-ea6e-xxxx-910e-d5a3764dfe38: PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 4.0 added Saturday, March 6, 2021 (2804:14d:5c51:a388::1002 / 192.168.0.50)
  2. c03d6f32-49aa-402c-xxxxa6ff54005323: PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 3.8 added Sunday, March 29, 2020 (189.122.9.236 / 192.168.0.13)
  3. Site 112643 - d768f3c8-148f-xcxxx-b141-643a0e627cf5: PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 4.0 added Friday, September 27, 2019xxx51:a388::1002 / 192.168.0.50)

I’m feeding FR24 and Radarbox without any issues.
Perhaps the culprit is the new feeder-id. Do Flightaware allow 2 different ID’s ?

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Regarding feeder id, you are still using the new feeder-id, not the old one. The old site has not logged in for 5 hours, the new one shows a login five minutes ago.

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@wiedehopf @abcd567 @biekerc
It seems that problem is solved. I replaced the new feeder-id by the old one, according @abcd567 instructions and, now, it’s working! I hope it lasts!
Thanks a lot!

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I just finished a day’s working with a new RP4 with 2 radios, from scratch. Good times.

#HOWTO INSTALL Flightaware 6.1 from scratch i.e. not the SD Card image, on a Raspberry Pi 4 in September of 2021

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot

wget https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/p/piaware-support/piaware-repository_6.1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i piaware-repository_6.1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install piaware

sudo piaware-config allow-auto-updates no
sudo piaware-config allow-manual-updates yes

sudo apt-get install dump1090-fa
sudo apt-get install dump978-fa

sudo reboot

Feed the ADSB Exchange

wget -O /tmp/axstats.sh https://adsbexchange.com/stats.sh
sudo bash /tmp/axstats.sh

wget -O /tmp/ax978.sh https://adsbexchange.com/978.sh
sudo bash /tmp/ax978.sh

sudo reboot

#IF YOU HAVE 1090 and 978 radios do this stuff.
#NOTE: The PiAware image that comes on an SD Card is completely different from this proceedure

#DUAL: set the config files for dual dongles

sudo sed -i ‘s/–device-index [^ ]* /–device-index 00001090 /’ /etc/default/dump1090-fa
sudo sed -i ‘s/driver=rtlsdr[^ ]* /driver=rtlsdr,serial=00000978 /’ /etc/default/dump978-fa

#DUAL: SERIALIZE the dongles

sudo apt update

sudo apt install rtl-sdr

sudo systemctl stop piaware dump1090-fa dump978-fa

#DUAL: UNPLUG THE DONGEL THAT WILL BE 978

rtl_eeprom -s 00001090

#DUAL: UNPLUG THE 1090 and plug in the 978

rtl_eeprom -s 00000978

#DUAL: UNPLUG BOTH dongles then;
REBOOT then;
PLUG IN both into the Pi4

#DUAL: check the status of the devices

rtl_test -t

sudo reboot

You are DONE so check to see if the stuff is working

sudo piaware-status

Thanks for choosing to share your data with ADS-B Exchange!
Check your feed status

https://adsbexchange.com/myip/
http://adsbx.org/sync

Question? Issues? Go here:

Webinterface to show the data transmitted? Run this command:
sudo bash /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/git/install-or-update-interface.sh

Other Useful commands

Display MLAT config

cat /etc/default/adsbexchange

Systemd Status

sudo systemctl status adsbexchange-mlat

sudo systemctl status adsbexchange-feed

Restart

sudo systemctl restart adsbexchange-feed

sudo systemctl restart adsbexchange-mlat

UAT local page
http://youripaddress/ax978

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