I’ve setup a new PiAware on my RPI3B+ with a RTL-SDR Blog V4 and an antenna from Amazon. I’m looking at the PiAware SkyAware dashboard locally and I see ADS-B Message Rate: 6.9/sec but there are no aircraft being tracked.
I’ve had aircrafts fly directly overhead and nothing is being reported in. The antenna is next to my window. This is the output from rtl_test:
rtl_test -t
Found 1 device(s):
0: RTLSDRBlog, Blog V4, SN: 00000001
Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
Found Rafael Micro R828D tuner
RTL-SDR Blog V4 Detected
Supported gain values (29): 0.0 0.9 1.4 2.7 3.7 7.7 8.7 12.5 14.4 15.7 16.6 19.7 20.7 22.9 25.4 28.0 29.7 32.8 33.8 36.4 37.2 38.6 40.2 42.1 43.4 43.9 44.5 48.0 49.6
Sampling at 2048000 S/s.
No E4000 tuner found, aborting.
is this a hardware issue? or environmental limitations on my end?
Not sure if I’m using http://www.heywhatsthat.com correctly but when I enter in my location and generate a panorama I’m under a red cloud a.k.a visibility cloak … is this bad?
I recall a recent post, the V4 SDR requires a different code library than the rest of the SDR’s and cannot interface with Dump1090-fa.
Go to the top of the discussions and enter RTL-SDR Blog V4 in the search box and you can find the discussion of this problem and solution. It is a good SDR and just needs a little help. The V3 version interfaces without problems. Find the new code library, install it and follow the directions in the post. Have fun with this, enjoy the process and See you again in the discussions. Welcome to the group.
If you have a system reliant on the Debian packages (eg. FlightRadar24, FlightAware, ADSBExchange images) you can update them directly using this method:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev git cmake
sudo apt install debhelper
git clone https://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog
cd rtl-sdr-blog
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b --no-sign
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i librtlsdr0_*.deb
sudo dpkg -i librtlsdr-dev_*.deb
sudo dpkg -i rtl-sdr_*.deb
