I recently got an ADS-B kit from FlightAware, and I assembled it last night, it was working fine at first but then at about 1:00 AM it just stopped working and it says that MLAT is offline. I have tried to reboot it and restart piaware but it still says that. How can I fix this?
On the nearby sites page it says that MLAT is working but on the status page it says it is not working.
Your site is showing offline at the moment so it looks like it is not functioning correctly. Without logfiles it is hard to tell you what is wrong with it.
Im not sure how to get logs as im new to this could you help me?
[2025-05-12 10:27 EDT] no ADS-B data program seen listening on port 30005 for 70 seconds, next check in 60s
[2025-05-12 10:27 EDT] no ADS-B data program is serving on port 30005, not starting multilateration client yet
these are the two logs that repeat often
it seems that Dump1090-FA and/or Piaware are not running on your system. Try a reboot and see if they do start when rebooted.
If not follow the steps on this page to reinstall the software. You will need SSH access to the system to do that.
If you use the SD card installation:
If you use the package installation:
after rebooting it gave me this
[2025-05-12 10:51 EDT] rebooting…
[2025-05-12 10:51 EDT] performing manual update, action: reboot
[2025-05-12 10:51 EDT] piaware (process 4796) is exiting…
[2025-05-12 10:51 EDT] piaware (process 4796) is shutting down because it received a shutdown signal (SIGTERM) from the system…
[2025-05-12 10:51 EDT] multilateration data no longer required, disabling mlat client
It seems there is somthing wrong with the Piaware software.
Since you are using the SD card image start over and follow the first link in my previous post.
After completing that you can see if the problem is solved.
If not then report back into the forum so we can try to help you.
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