Yup. It starts by adding a coke can, then before you know it you’re installing pylons on the roof and designating the spare room “the feeder room”.
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It’s also very dependent on marital status. Don’t be MLATed by your significant other. ROTFLM!
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No you do NOT have to uninstall PiAware, or any other existing software.
All the feeders mentioned under “ADDITIONAL FEEDERS” section of thread Bake A Pi can be installed in ADDITION to PiAware, and co-exist with PiAware. You can even install some more feeders not listed in Bake A Pi, such as RadarBox24 etc, as mentioned by @evangelyul.
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Yesterday I have downloaded “PiAware on Raspbian Linux 3.5.3 ZIP” from PiAware - build your own ADS-B ground station for integration with FlightAware - FlightAware , and wrote to one of my microSD cards. I then installed fr24 feeder, planefinder feeder, radarbox24 feeder, and adsbexchange feeder on this microSD card. ALL are running OK. They all co-exist peacefully. No need to uninstall anything, and nothing breaks.
Hi @abcd567
I can confirm they all, the ones I tried, co-exist peacefully. I ran into problems only when uninstalling/changing/updating FR24. Also, I was unable to set up MLAT with ADS-B Exchange.
This could all be due to the fact I’m not proficient with Linux/Raspbian. I must have missed some important step along the way.
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Yes, recent versions of FR24 released in Feb & March, were problemetic, but the the latest ones are ok.
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If you have installed Adsbexchange by JProchazka’s script install, it sometimes introduces a bug. In the file adsb-receiver/build/adsbexchange/mlat_maint.sh, the latitude and longitude values are missing.
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Open it with nano, and enter actual values where I have written below XX.XXXX, YY.YYYY, and ZZZ, and may be Your_User_Name also:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do sleep 30
/usr/bin/mlat-client --input-type dump1090 --input-connect 127.0.0.1:30005 --lat XX.XXXX --lon YY.YYYY --alt ZZZ --user Your_User_Name --server feed.adsbexchange.com:31090 --no-udp --results beast,connect,127.0.0.1:30104
done
You are not the only one, I have also passed through the stage you are passing now. 
That was the time I was playing with it, late Feb to mid March.
While I’m not 100% sure, I think that was it. Time to try again.
Thanks.
Is there a simple way to see if you are successfully feeding to ADSB exchange? I used the script by JProchanzka and I don’t see a way to view/watch the aircrafts I am picking up.
Is
username
an arbitrary thing within those script files? I cannot find a place to register to view my data. I did however follow this: https://www.adsbexchange.com/how-to-feed/custom-feed-how-to/
I also chose a new port to feed to, but I can’t see anything on it while I see planes on my FA tracker. Any ideas?
Yes, it is arbitrary. I have chosen usernames 01-abcd567, 02-abcd567, and 03-abcd567 for my 3 stations, and can see them listed and synchronized at following address.
http://adsbexchange.com/sync-2
Initially this page appears with some text starting with “This table shows…”. One has to wait for several minutes, then it loads the page showing my above stations.
You can divert the incoming feed to VRS on your Windows Desktop, and can see it. The detailed method is given here:
Bake a Pi >> Additional Feeders** >> scroll down to Adsbexchange.
Scroll down to last few paragraphs starting with " (8) Segregation of MLAT Feedbacks of Flightaware and Adsbexchange".
Is there a way to view your own “database” of spotted planes and such via ADS-B Exchange?
The only planes I have seen on my custom feed here: https://customglobal.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar/desktop.html
I don’t have VRS setup yet on a windows machine since I’m just running all of this on a pi
Has been planes with negative air speed…
Any ideas why it wouldn’t be making it to the custom feed? The scripts seem to be running just fine.
You can divert the incoming feed to VRS on your Windows Desktop, and can see it. The detailed method is given here:
Must I use VRS to have a “view” of my current tracked planes?
No…you can use DUMP1090’s own map or ADSBScope. There may be others.
VRS is my favorite.
So to view what I am pushing over to ADSB-Exchange…
I can just look at ip_of_pi/dump1090 (which 404s for me)
Or what method do you use? I would setup VRS but don’t have a suitable windows machine for it. iirc isn’t a windows app.
I’m away from my receiver to check my setup, but it depends on the image used. I recall seeing 8080, 8088, map, map1090, and some others. If you are using an ADSB-Exchange image, they may have a different port assigned to the map.
There is a work around using MONO to install VRS on the Pi or other Linux PC, but I never tried. The info is on the VRS page.
Ah I see - I’m just using the PiAware Image paired with the scripts for ADSB-Exchange. I’m not sure how that goes together.
My experience adding another feeder is that it’ll change the way the map is accessed. For example, since installing the ADS-B Receiver project on top of Piaware, I cannot access Skyview from the FA page, only using the ADS-B Receiver Project front end. I’m using DUMP1090-FA with the ADS-B Receiver Project.
I plan on installing ADS-B Exchange soon. I’m interested in learning the differences. One issue that already confuses me is what kind of ID ADS-Exchange uses. I see mentions of nickname, but still need to research.
There is no login from what I can tell. There is a receiver “nickname”, but you have to push to a custom port and then claim that port. I still can’t get any flights to show up on exchange though. the default FA portal works flawlessly still.
My goal is to just be able to see how many times I have seen a specific plane over time.
provided having the desktop not the lite version of raspbian/debian etc.
check also
[https://www.adsbexchange.com/how-to-feed/custom-feed-how-to/]
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Oh…I think I now understand what you mean. I was under the impression you had lost access to a live map completely. I don’t believe it can be done that way. If you can access the live map from the FA portal, that is it. What you see there is what it’s being sent to ADS-B Exchange.
For additional info, you need to setup a custom feed with ADS-B Exchange, that way you can see what you are sending them from their portal. There are some other options available as well.