My name is Nelson, I’m from Colombia, and I have a FR24 receiver, but one moment to another the equipment it’s not receiving info from airplanes, I’ve try to other antenna and the failure continues.
I asked the support team for help and after completing the requested tests, they asked me to send the receiver back, but I must send it at my expense and then they refund the money, but it is very expensive and with this COVID-19 issue it is difficult to carry out shipments because we are quarantined.
In view of all this, I’ve made the decision to use the receiver provided by flightaware, but I need to know how programming the flight feeder orange from Flightaware receiver to can share data to FR24. I’ve try to put in the scrip but I can’t 'cause I need a password to can log in on the maintenance function.
Anybody know this pass that I needing, or another method to can programming this receiver?
As far as I know Flightfeeder has the decoded data available at ports 30005 (beast) and 30003 (avr) formats, and Flightaware allows users to feed this data to any other site. @esmathews to please confirm if my statement is right or wrong.
If my above statement is correct, then you can still feed FR24 from Flightfeeder without any modifications to Flightfeeder, by using another computer such as Raspberry Pi or a Linux Desktop connected to same network/router, and installing fr24 feeder on this RPi/Desktop. The fr24 feeder should be configured to pull data from Flightfeeder through the network/router.
@abcd567 could you elaberate on the process to connect the flightfeeder to a Rpi. I just received my Feeder yesterday, and will be installing it way up in the rafters of a workshop, so would like to get all the bits and bobs done before i make the install.
i already have an rpi 3+ feeding FR24, what do i now need to change in order for it to take its data from the Flightfeeder.
Also kuudos on the antenna designs post, made one last month to boost my FR24 stats compared to the tiny antenna i got with my ads-b dongle. Worked a treat.
Flightaware does NOT allow any changes to be made to Flghtfeeder. However you can still feed fr24 using the data from Flightfeeder by making following changes to the RPi from which yoh are currently feeding fr24.
@abcd567 sorry to bother you again, but I don’t know if I have done something wrong. I changed the fr24feed.ini file like you said, and the :8754 port for fr24is showing that it is receiving data, but my online portal doesn’t seem to register it.
Your status shows OK, and sending data to FR24 server.
Malt not running may be not enough flights or enough number of other recevers in your zone to synchronize.
The yellow line instead of blue on your stat page is due to FR24 server. Wait till UTC 24.00 hrs when date changes, then it will turn blue.
You can further check the data sent to FR24 from logs. Here are my logs (last portion)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /var/log/fr24feed/fr24feed.log
... ... ...
... ... ...
2021-03-06 14:07:32 | [mlat][i]Stats 587707/227
2021-03-06 14:07:34 | [feed][i]sent 7,12 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:35 | [feed][i]sent 1,0 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:37 | [feed][i]sent 1,0 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:40 | [feed][i]sent 7,15 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:41 | [feed][i]filtering out 19 overlapping AC (saving bandwidth)
2021-03-06 14:07:45 | [feed][i]sent 5,13 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:51 | [feed][i]sent 6,14 AC
2021-03-06 14:07:52 | [mlat][i]Pinging the server
2021-03-06 14:07:52 | [mlat][i]Stats 587900/193
2021-03-06 14:07:56 | [feed][i]sent 8,14 AC
2021-03-06 14:08:02 | [feed][i]sent 7,13 AC
2021-03-06 14:08:07 | [feed][i]sent 8,12 AC
2021-03-06 14:08:12 | [mlat][i]Pinging the server
2021-03-06 14:08:12 | [mlat][i]Stats 588140/240
2021-03-06 14:08:13 | [feed][i]sent 10,14 AC
2021-03-06 14:08:18 | [feed][i]sent 10,14 AC
2021-03-06 14:08:24 | [feed][i]sent 11,15 AC
The most important changes (receiver="beast-tcp" and host="192.168.0.104:30005") you have already done and is enough to receive data from Flightfeeder.
However following is still to be done
To avoid any conflicts, make changes as shown below:
Change bs="yes" to bs="no"
Change raw="yes" to raw="no"
Optional, but recommended: Delete following two lines path="/usr/lib/fr24/dump1090" baudrate="3000000"
Thanks @abcd567 as well from me for this HowTo feeding FR24 with a FlightFeeder.
I started ADS-B feeding last year with a self build setup with a Raspberry. I applied to FlightAware for a FlightFeeder and happily got it last week. (The blue one with the white Antenna with built in GPS)
The reception is now about 20% better than my Raspberry low-cost-setup.
But lost feeding FR24 (not anymore) and ADSB-exchange…
(now I’m searching for an HowTo like this one for ADSB-exchange )
A flightfeeder is owned and remotley maintain by flightaware, as well, uses a specific and consistent software install. Users dont have admin access to the flightfeeder, nor can they add software modifications to it.
If you want to feed other sites, you will need to purchase your “own” pi and related equipment.
For more info or questions, contact flightaware @ adsbsupport@flightaware.com
@dongerrard204
Ah yes, maybe I wasn’t clear about that because this thread is already about the FlightFeeder using a Pi to feed other sites.
I use my Pi now to feed the FlightFeeder stream to FR24 thanks to described settings in this thread.
Now I’m looking for the same setup to use TAR1090 (and maybe ADSB-Exchange) again with the FlightFeeder stream on the Pi.
Hey @abcd567,
it worked… kind of. I changed the IP from the localhost to the FlighFeeder and did a reboot but at the moment ADSB-Exchange lost MLAT. But I can see, that ADSB-Ex is using the FlightFeeders ADS-B data.
Do I have to change some of the other IPs as well? Or set the INPUT_TYPE to something else?
The tar1090 uses json files from folder /var/run/dump1090-fa, which must be located on same Pi on which the tar1090 is located.
If dump1090 is located on another mchine (Flgtgfeeder), then you need to mount its folder /var/run/dump1090-fa on your Pi to access the json files. This needs you to have administrative permissions on Flihtfreedr, which is NOT granted to users.
If there is a way to access json files of Fligtfeeder from a remote machine (RPi), I am not aware of it. @obj may kindly give some advise on this issue.
OK, right now the Pi is running my old, pre-FlightFeeder setup with dump1090-fa.
At the moment I’m feeding data to FA with the FlightFeeder as well as with the Pi from the same location…
If I understand it correct I could tell dump1090-fa as well to use the FlightFeeder stream and not the SDR-stick and would have TAR1090 running with the FlightFeeder data but at the same time feeding the same data twice to FA… right?
Right, but this not useful for you or Flightaware to feed same data twice. Also mlat on Pi may not work with data from another machine.
A better option is to continue running dump1090-fa in your Pi in “net-only” mode, but disable piaware, so that it stops feeding duplicate data to flightaware.
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