Hi, I’ve just setup PiAware with an RTL dongle and everthing is plotting on Skyview including Mlat aircraft.
However, the Mlat aircraft are not plotting on planeplotter.
My PP settings are:
I/o settings Mode-S/ADS-B —> RTL > RPi+Dump1090
Mode S Receiver RTL Dongle RPi Dump —> 192.168.1.44:30005
Are the settings incorrect.
Thanks
you may wish the review the flightaware Mlat conditions of use
I’m only looking at plotting the Mlat’s on planeplotter on my LAN.
take a look at this diagram: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/about
It indicates you need to get the mlat positions separately connecting to either 30105 or 30106.
I’m not familiar with VRS but i believe you need to set up a separate source / input with one of those ports.
Ah - not relevant then.
Try port 30106
Ok, tried the following ports:
30005 —> plots all except Mlat
30105 —> plots Mlat only
30106 —> plots nothing
Is it possible to merge the two ports ?
It appears that ModeSMixer2 is the solution.
With PiAware installed is it possible to install ModeSMixer2 on the RP or does it have to be installed on a PC.
With VRS? It should be, iirc you can merge the feeds of two feeders, so you probably can make a adsb feed, a mlat feed and then a combined feed of the two?!
hi
in addition to code by @abcd567
For RPi 2/3
COPY-PASTE following text to blank file mm2.sh
/home/pi/mm2/modesmixer2 \
--inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30005:ADSB \
--inConnectId 127.0.0.1:30105:MLAT \
--web 8787 \
--location xx.xxxx:yy.yyyy \
you need a line like this --outServer beast :40005 \
and a change in your PP line Mode S Receiver RTL Dongle RPi Dump —> 192.168.1.44:40005
this outServer works similar to VRS Rebroadcast server
Thanks.
Deviating a bit from the original subject - can you feed flightaware from the RP with dump1090 without having to install PiAware?
not sure, I think I saw something in this forum, maybe by user @abcd567, about using original dump1090 by Malcolm Robb.
Thanks, I’ll have a search on it.
Does VNC work with PiAware ?
sorry, I do not know.
I may be mistaken, some will say I always am 
, but VNC is useful as a remote desktop, which implies a GUI. There is no GUI in Piaware by default, but it can be installed.
I do use VNC, with the full version of Raspbian. With Piaware, I use Putty.
With VRS? Sure. Create a Merged feed using the VRS ‘receivers’ you have now, typically your RTL-SDR dongle and MLAT (if enabled), but you may have more than two VRS ‘receivers’ set up.
I don’t think so. Whether Piaware was part of the SD image, or installed later manually, I believe it has to be present if you want to feed FA.
Thanks, I’ll try Putty.
Going through the instructions, when I get to step 8 and enter ./mm2.sh & disown I get:
./modesmixer2: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory
you may need to install openssl and/or libssl-dev and reboot.
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
I think though that you want modesmixer to feed your planeplotter in which case
it is easier to run modesmixer in your PC.
you need the runtime executables msvcr / msvcp you can download from Microsoft.
then in the modesmixer folder add / edit a file mm2.bat.
add the following lines and run it.
echo "modesmixer v 9/2017 - web 9779"
@echo off
cmd /c mm2.exe ^
--web 9779 ^
--location your LAT:your LON ^
--inConnect your RPi IP:30005 ^
--inConnect your RPi IP:30105 ^
--outServer beast:40005
PAUSE
exit
now change the PP line for the receiver 127.0.0.1:40005
note: you must download the windows version from xdeco.org
note: you can rename modesmixer2.exe to mm2.exe. if not then the above cmd line
must change to cmd /c modesmixer.exe ^
note: on your browser enter 127.0.0.1:9779 to view the modesmixer output.
note: in RPi SSH must be enabled via raspi-config or via an empty file named ssh.
openssl was already installed and installing libssl-dev doesn’t change anything.
I’ve installed putty on the RP and PC. I created an empty ssh file on the RP root directory. When I “ssh pi@piaware” is says connection refused ?