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Fully Manual Method to Install Beast Splitter

Credits:

I have derived this manual method from file beastsplitter.sh of Joe Prochazka’s “adsb-receiver project”.

STEP-BY-STEP METHOD

(1) Update your system
sudo apt-get update

(2) Install packages needed to meet dependencies

sudo apt-get install debhelper libboost-system-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev dh-systemd

(3) Make new directory to hold build files of beast-splitter, enter the build-bs directory, and clone the soutce-code of beast-splitter

sudo mkdir build-bs
cd build-bs

sudo apt-get install git
sudo git clone https://github.com/flightaware/beast-splitter.git

(4) Enter the cloned directory and build package

Note: It will take long time to complete build process.

cd beast-splitter
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b

(5) After above build process is completed, and beast-splitter package is built, install it

cd ../
sudo dpkg -i beast-splitter_*.deb

(6) Create necessary scripts to start beast-splitter at boot, and keep it alive.

6.1 - Create new blank file bs-maint.sh

cd build-bs
sudo nano bs-maint.sh

6.2 - Copy-paste following code in the newly created blank file bs-maint.sh
Note: Replace [BEASTSPLITTER_LISTEN_PORT] and [BEASTSPLITTER_CONNECT_PORT] by their actual values.

#! /bin/bash
while true
  do
    sleep 30
    beast-splitter --serial /dev/beast --listen [BEASTSPLITTER_LISTEN_PORT]:R --connect localhost:[BEASTSPLITTER_CONNECT_PORT]:R
  done

6.3 - Make file bs-maint.sh executeable

sudo chmod +x bs-maint.sh

6.4 - Open file rc.local for editing

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

6.5 - Add following line in the above file, just above last line, i.e. above exit 0.

/home/pi/build-bs/bs-maint.sh &

6.6 - Reboot Pi
sudo reboot

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