How-to Get VRS-Like Coverage Map on RPi

w7psk · October 21, 2018, 3:19pm

abcd567
how do you uninstall it … My Map is no longer working, it wont even display anymore.
And over at the website they have not even responded to your question. I feel
they dont care.

abcd567 · October 21, 2018, 5:09pm

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To Uninstall

Delete folder mm2:
sudo rm -rf ~/mm2
Delete entry in the file /etc/rc.local:
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
#Scroll down, and delete following line
/home/pi/mm2/mm2.sh &

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w7psk · October 21, 2018, 7:52pm

Thanks
It just isn’t working anymore for some reason. I did a refresh but then got the Google warning again. Then it quit working. I think google is messing with it.

evangelyul · October 24, 2018, 3:41pm

works for me BUT with an API key that I got for free long ago.
I think it is still free. so then all yoy have to do is, add
the key to parameters.

abcd567 · October 24, 2018, 3:44pm

I also have a free Google key which I obtained in 2016, but it does NOT work, neither with VRS, nor with ModeSMixer2.

In 2016, Google did NOT ask for Cresit Card details for a free key.

jonhawkes2030 · October 24, 2018, 3:46pm

You can get the google maps API key from here

I think mine still works but I haven’t logged in for a while.

evangelyul · October 24, 2018, 3:47pm

never used it with VRS only ModesMixer2, no problems.
next is now (system windoze 7x64 browser opera).

and ModesDeco2 - without key (never had)

g7pnu · November 8, 2018, 10:26pm

Thank you abcd576 - I used this post again after a pi rebuild. Its one of the most useful how too’s on the site - Note to all and a reminder to myself, you do need to add --google-key qw234reyd_your_key_stuff_213423AS as an option to modesmixer2 line in the mm2.sh script if you want to get ride of the google water marks from the map. The google keys are free but you have to go and get your own key from the google web site. Thanks again.

SoNic67 · November 8, 2018, 11:47pm

I think that Google API keys require billing now:

To use the Maps JavaScript API, you must get an API key and you must enable billing. You can enable billing when you get your API key (see the Quick guide) or as a separate process (see Usage and Billing).

I prefer Bing Maps keys: https://www.bingmapsportal.com/

glennblum · June 16, 2019, 2:45pm

I decided to install the newer version of ModeSMixer version 20190223 for stretch on my Pi3B and the maps are still in the Google development mode but there is other pretty cool options to have now.
http://xdeco.org/?page_id=30

In maps view, there is now a graph view and flight deck view.

abcd567 · June 16, 2019, 4:34pm

Thanks for the information.
I have now updated automatic install script at GitHub to use the latest version of ModeSMixer2

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-to-get-vrs-like-coverage-map-on-rpi/31284/150

Installed latest version by Automatic Install Script at GitHub.

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glennblum · June 16, 2019, 5:41pm

Maybe Serg will update the program to use different mapping other than Google.

glennblum · June 17, 2019, 2:28am

rachelclairefarrar · August 1, 2019, 7:30am

I’ve been tinkering with ModeSmixer attempting to feed a couple of co-located feeds into a single Flightaware feed.
I have the feeds combined on the map but have failed to get them to show up on Flightaware.

#!/bin/sh
/home/pi/mm2/modesmixer2
–inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30105:MLAT
–inConnectId 192.168.178.128:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.128:30105:MLAT
–inConnectId 192.168.178.150:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.150:30105:MLAT
–inConnectId 192.168.178.175:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.175:30105:MLAT
–outServer beast:39005 --outServer sbs10001:10001
–location xx.xxxx:yy.yyyy
–web 8787 \

I presume the outServer argument is incorrect?

wiedehopf · August 1, 2019, 7:43am

Don’t try feeding mlat results to Flightaware or any other flight tracking website.
(Doing so will get you banned)

Have you pointed piaware at that port?

Anyway the combined station won’t be able to participate in the MLAT system due to the messages from the receivers having unsynchronized timestamps.

Humpfrey · August 1, 2019, 7:57am

Should it be this then?

#!/bin/sh
/home/pi/mm2/modesmixer2
–inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.128:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.150:30005:ADSB
–inConnectId 192.168.178.175:30005:ADSB
–outServer sbs10001:10001
–location xx.xxxx:yy.yyyy
–web 8787 \

wiedehopf · August 1, 2019, 8:01am

Yeah that’s better.

Thing is there isn’t really any reason to feed the combined data.
Just having piaware on every receiver is fine.
(Also that way mlat works)

And for viewing the combined data you can obviously include the MLAT results.

Still that command line looks wrong you’ll still need the beast server you had previously.
Pointing piaware to port 39005 is done with piaware-config.

Also you need \ at the end of every line of the command except for the last or the script won’t work at all.
The \ tells the shell that the command continues on the next line.

rachelclairefarrar · August 1, 2019, 8:41am

Thank you for your help.
I will give that a try.

rachelclairefarrar · August 1, 2019, 4:54pm

With
sudo piaware-config receiver-port 39005
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abcd567 · August 1, 2019, 5:30pm

sudo piaware-config receiver-type other
sudo piaware-config receiver-host 127.0.0.1
sudo piaware-config receiver-port 39005

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EDIT: Removed mlat

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano mm2/mm2.sh

#!/bin/sh
/home/pi/mm2/modesmixer2 \
 --inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30005:ADSB \
 --outServer beast:39005 \
 --web 8787 \
 --location 43.xxx:-79.xxx \

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo reboot

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status piaware
● piaware.service - FlightAware ADS-B uploader
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-08-01 13:25:52 EDT; 1min 17s ago
     Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
 Main PID: 538 (piaware)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 2200)
   Memory: 14.9M
   CGroup: /system.slice/piaware.service
           ├─538 /usr/bin/piaware -p /run/piaware/piaware.pid -plainlog -statusfile /run/piaware/status.json
           ├─919 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr 127.0.0.1 --net-bo-port 39005 --stdout --lat 43.xxx --lon -79.xxx
           └─939 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/fa-mlat-client --input-connect 127.0.0.1:39005 --input-type auto --results beast,conne

Aug 01 13:25:59 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Listening for Beast-format results connection on port 30105
Aug 01 13:25:59 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Listening for Extended Basestation-format results connection on port
Aug 01 13:25:59 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Input connected to 127.0.0.1:39005
Aug 01 13:26:00 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Beast-format results connection with ::1:30104: connection establish
Aug 01 13:26:04 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Accepted Beast-format results connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1:49918
Aug 01 13:26:05 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Detected BEAST format input
Aug 01 13:26:05 raspberrypi piaware[538]: mlat-client(939): Input format changed to BEAST, 12MHz clock
Aug 01 13:26:05 raspberrypi piaware[538]: piaware received a message from modesmixer2!
Aug 01 13:26:07 raspberrypi piaware[538]: piaware has successfully sent several msgs to FlightAware!
Aug 01 13:26:29 raspberrypi piaware[538]: 49 msgs recv'd from modesmixer2; 49 msgs sent to FlightAware

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How-to Get VRS-Like Coverage Map on RPi

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-to-get-vrs-like-coverage-map-on-rpi/31284/150

Installed latest version by Automatic Install Script at GitHub.

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