HOWTO: Airspy mini and Airspy R2: Piaware / dump1090-fa configuration

Just switched on 20MHz and the only real difference is the SNR and an increased CPU usage. It doesn’t change anything of the other values.


So nothing changed compared to my former testing.

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Hello all! I ran into a problem running the install script on a Pi 4 to a fresh build of Piaware v8, the image available from FlightAware. This is the airspy-conf script at GitHub.
The problem occurred when script runs:
“adduser --system --comment “Unprivileged user for running airspy_adsb” airspy_adsb”
It errors on the use of “–comment”
I think it still showed up as an error after updating the Pi and running v.9 of Piaware.
Running the script locally and editing out the comment seems to have worked.
Seems like that command switch is not part of Buster.
N.B. I’ve haven’t paid much attention to my FA system, it just runs. I had changed WiFi around and found I had forgotten logon password, so it was time to rebuild.
Thanks for adding Airspy support!!

comment argument removed, should be fixed, please try again.

I’d highly recommend https://adsb.im, it allows easily sending data to other websites in addition to FA if you’re interested in that :slight_smile:

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Looks exciting, downloading it now…

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