Intermittent Feed Dropout

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I’m using a FlightAware receiver with a pi 4 and external antenna on roof.
My feed might work for a few hours, or a few days, but eventually stops working for a variable length of time. I bought another pi 4, made a working card from scratch, substituted a pi 5 27 watt PS, put heat sinks and a dedicated fan on the dongle, and made a cron job to reboot at midnight every night. No joy. It’s not the pi shutting down…I can still use terminal while the feed is not working. For awhile I would reboot every time I lost the feed (to both FA and adsb exchange) but now I don’t reboot and eventually it starts working again. The pi is on a 1 GB wired Ethernet network with some other pi’s, Mac’s, and PCs, none of which have network problems…(my Hamclock pi has been up about a year or so).

Any suggestions? Or is this just the way it is?

Steve

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Then check the logs? sudo journalctl / sudo dmesg

“can still use the terminal”
are you saying it’s losing network?

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No, it’s not losing network and the pi otherwise seems happy.

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You got graphs1090 installed?

Is there still aircraft data received when this happens?

Anyhow look at the log for piaware.

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