Install Plane Plotter Lite on RPi with Desktop (GUI)

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REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Raspberry Pi 3B or 4
  2. Raspberry PI OS (32-bit or 64-bit) Bullseye or Bookworm with Desktop (GUI)
  3. A decoder such as dump1090-fa OR readsb OR dump1090-mutability OR ModeSDeco2 installed on RPi
  4. A Dongle and Antenna for the decoder
  5. A monitor connected to RPi to RUN PP_Lite from RPi GUI’s terminal & view PP Map
  6. OPTIONAL: VNC to view PP Map on Windows or Mac PC

Instructions to install & run:
https://www.coaa.co.uk/PP-Lite-installation-and-use.pdf

For discussions and help with Plane Plotter Group:
https://planeplotter.groups.io/g/main/message/131333

 

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Message by Bev, the creator of “Plane Plotter Lite for RPi”.
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PLANE PLOTTER UPLOADER

The PP_Lite mentioned in above post provides a PlanePlotter style map on RPi. However it does NOT upload data to Planeplotter site.

To feed data from RPi to Planeplotter site, you can install another app on RPi. This app was recently provided by Bev of planeplotter. It can be downloaded from here:
https://www.coaa.co.uk/ppup1090-2024-06-11.zip.
Unzipping above file provides an executable binary ppup1090 which can be run manually by command ./ppup1090.
Important: you must copy file coaa.h to folder containing executable binary ppup1090. If you do not already have the file coaa.h, or it has expired due to long period of no use, then request it from following address:
https://www.coaa.co.uk/rpi-request.htm

Automated Installation and running as systemd service

I have written a script which downloads this app from coaa.uk, and creates files necessary to run it by systemd, so that it starts automatically at boot and runs in the background. User can control it by following commands

sudo systemctl status ppup1090
sudo systemctl restart poup1090
sudo systemctl stop ppup1090

TO INSTALL:
It can be installed by following command:

sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://github.com/abcd567a/ppup1090/raw/master/install-ppup.sh)"

 
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS:
https://github.com/abcd567a/ppup1090/blob/master/README.md

 

 

 

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