How-to Read / Set Gain from SkyView and Gmap

Procedure Partly Automated

Applies to following posts:

The Automated Part:

The scripts executes steps 1, 2, & 3 of above posts

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/abcd567a/set-gain.git  

In the cloned folder set-gain, there are 3 files as listed below:
Use the file which applies to your install.

For Piaware SD card image

cd set-gain 
./piaware-img.sh 

For Raspbian image with dump1090-fa package install

cd set-gain 
./raspbian+dump-fa.sh 

For Raspbian image with dump1090-mutability package install

cd set-gain 
./raspbian+dump-mut.sh 

The Manual Part (After running the script as above)

(1) Execute entire STEP-4 of above posts (i.e. edit the file index.html or gmap.html).
(2) Execute Step 2.3 of above posts, i.e issue command sudo crontab -e and in file opened, add the line
@reboot /bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/gain/setgain.sh
(3) Finally, Reboot Pi to implement modifications

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