How to Install and Configure Piaware 5.0 SD card image - Quickstart Guide

[brianroyal]

That’s unfortunate news for me, because it definitively disappeared after using the serializing command to set it’s serial to 00001090.
I have most definitely already tried, in several ways, to see the FA stick, as the only device and even with a completely fresh SD card, pi, and buster image.
I even tried a Jessie image, for testing. It no longer appears in raspbian, though it does in windows. I have not attempted to actually use it in windows, but it does recognize it and install a driver.
Yar. I already have the osmocom rtl-sdr libraries on windows (and linux, actually), as I use HDSDR and SDR#.

[abcd567]

If the dongle is visible on Windows, try to change serial on Windows:

Method 1

@abcd567

Alternate method on Windows:

Changing Serial Number of Dongle by RTL1090

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Method 2

@abcd567

B) Dongle Plugged into Windows Computer

STEP 1:

Install dvb-t rtl driver zadig if not yet done so, as detailed below.

(1) Download Zadig 2.3.exe from http://zadig.akeo.ie/

(2) Plug the DVB-T or ProStick in your Windows Computer.

(3) Follow the steps below:

[obj]

@brianroyal

This persists over several reboots and swaps of dongles. The orange can be seen by windows, as an RTL something-or-other FA but the pi fails to initialize the device every time, even on a fresh SD card and fresh buster image with no other dongles or config modifications (except ssh and the wifi info, of course).

What does “lsusb” say when the problem dongle is connected?
(I’m guessing that whatever problem you had during programming the EEPROM gave it a bad VID/PID that’s not recognized by librtlsdr)

[brianroyal]

Thanks again, abcd567!

Changed it’s serial using the batch file from the rtl-sdr folder method and it’s back in business.

I didn’t even reboot the pi or restart the services. I literally just changed it to the same serial as the nooElec (00001090) and swapped it in. Instantly got three times the 1090 traffic.

[abcd567]

@brianroyal

Changed it’s serial using the batch file from the rtl-sdr folder method and it’s back in business.

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Glad to know your ProStick is back in business.
I understand from your above statement that you used following method. Am I right?

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@abcd567

STEP-4

In folder x32, right-click and create New Text Document

STEP-5

Open the New Text Document and type
rtl_eeprom -s 00000000

STEP-6

Save the file as change-serial.bat

[brianroyal]

Yes, except I gave it 00001090 and swapped it for the nooElec with the same serial. Worked instantly.
I wonder if perhaps I accidentally tried to give it a 9-digit serial and caused some sort of overflow error. For whatever reason, it wasn’t seen whatsoever by the pi until I fixed that.

[turbodogfl]

After copying the 4.0 image to 32 gb micro SD card and then expanding the filesystem in raspiconfig, the card is only 16gb. This is on a rpi 3b+. Is this normal?

[obj]

The sdcard image auto-expands on first boot (only) to the full sdcard size.

Expanding later via raspi-config is untested, you’re on your own there.

[Skyportal]

Hello,
This is my first time tinkering with a Raspberry Pi. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running SkyAware 8.2, two Flight Aware Antennas (1090 & 978), and two orange Flight Aware dongles. My 1090 receiver is working fine. Are these instructions still valid for my configuration to add the 978? I can’t seem to get past the login. I used what I thought was the default username and password (pi, raspberry) but that did not work. Then I tried my Flightaware username and password and that didn’t work either. Arrggg!

[tomvdhorst]

Is it the Flightaware image you are running ? If so, the username and password are different.
Check this page for the default image username and password PiAware - build your own ADS-B ground station for integration with FlightAware - Optional Steps - FlightAware

[abcd567]

@Skyportal

I used what I thought was the default username and password (pi, raspberry) but that did not work. Then I tried my Flightaware username and password and that didn’t work either. Arrggg!

 

Please see below the quote from the first post of this thread:

 

@abcd567

For Piaware SD card image
username = pi
default password = flightaware

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@Skyportal

Are these instructions still valid for my configuration to add the 978?

 

Yes, the instructions for 978 Mhz in the first post of this thread are still valid (scroll down to items 5, 6, and 7)

 

[Skyportal]

Thank you so much! Everything is working now.

[Skyportal]

I was using the wrong Pi password. It’s working now. Thanks for your reply!

[kc7hex]

I use this for my two radio with the one antenna, works great.
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