So I am by no means a computer guru but I am able to get almost any technical issue sorted out with enough blogs, YouTube instructional vids, and by otherwise just hunting and poking until finding success. Well, not this time and after having been up and running at my FL home since very early this year with the FlightAware FlightFeeder box provided by them, I really have missed the level of detail I have there so I decided to move forward with putting up an antenae here at my Chicago place. Of course, they won’t offer me another one for here because coverage isn’t an issue so I paid the $200 for the PiAware prebuilt kit and have had it for over a week now and probably have spend no less than 20 hours trying to make it work, still to no avail.
When I go here:
I get this:
PiAware - Claim and Link a Brand New PiAware Ground Station
Unfortunately, FlightAware hasn’t found a new, unclaimed PiAware feeder to claim.
FlightAware searches for PiAware connections on the same global IP (107.142.182.163) as your connection. If you are on the same LAN as the PiAware device, then we should be able to find the receiver and claim it for you. You should wait a few minutes after plugging in your PiAware device before expecting it to be connected to FlightAware. Try checking cable connections, waiting a few moments, and trying again.
Now I did call FA last week and actually what the website says is not true because they do NOT provide technical support to PiAware users or at least the nice gal I spoke to told me they do not…so here I sit and figured (as hard as it was), I need to admit my challenger and see if anyone (more the better) would be interested in accepting the challenge to provide some tips and tricks which I can use to get this site up and feeding data to FA. I was under the impression it would be easy like the box they send, but not so much the case at all.
I am all ears for all helpful suggestions, so fire away!
Is your PiAware up and running and connected to FA successfully? This needs to happen before you can claim it. Do you have a monitor connected to the Pi? If so, what does it show after booting?
(Also, what do you mean by the “piaware prebuilt kit”? FA doesn’t sell these)
No, it is NOT connected to FA successfully as that is the issue exactly which I’m posting about. I do have it connected to a 62" TV with mouse and keyboard so I can control very nicely from an interface perspective. I can also see that from my router, I am able to connect both via 10/100 and wirelessly as both show up as connected devices.
Correct, I purchased the following on Amazon and which I found here on the FA site as an option versus buying all of the piece parts and having to assemble myself, I purchased this:
Exactly what should I show screen shots of with regards to what “what” is showing after booting as there is a lot of various programs within that little box but if you tell me precisely what you are needing I will get it to you. Thanks much I am glad I reached out for help already.
Yeah you need to type the url on ANOTHER computer not the pi.
Also use a browser like what you are using for this forum.
At the top of the browser window that’s where the http://192.168.1.254 goes
Actually just try to click it.
EDIT: Also why did you install git?
And also if you have a smartphone use it to make a real photo of the screen after bootup.
Or do you ssh into the box?
If you have install ADSB-Receiver and you want to finish the installation…
If your Raspberry Pi’s IP address is 192.168.1.151
You should type:-
192.168.1.151/install at the WIndows based Browser or any other Linux Based Browser to gain access to the further installation process.
I saw from your screen’s photo shows the feeder-ID: d53c2c41-43c0-461c-abcc-305205cc56f1, it means you have your feeder-ID and you shall claim your feeder from the other PC browser with the link shown in your screen or PiAware - Claim and Link a Brand New PiAware Ground Station - FlightAware.
I am pretty confused about what exactly you are doing here and what image you started with. I don’t know what was on the sdcard in your prepackaged kit.
If you’re still having trouble I suggest you reimage the sdcard and start again so that things are in a known state. Follow the instructions of step 2 at PiAware - build your own ADS-B ground station for integration with FlightAware - FlightAware. If you’re still having problems after that, please post a picture of the final screen after it’s finished booting (like the example I posted earlier)
OK so when I type that address into another browser it brings me to my modem box settings and I can see that the raspberry is connected both via wired and wireless at this point. Is this what I was looking for? I wasn’t certain as to the reason why I was typing in the main IP address of my home network. But here is the picture attached.
What I’m trying to do is get my PI aware box on line and feeding flight data for the first time. That’s as basic as it is it hasn’t been up and running yet I just got it a week ago.
Apart from that i have to agree that writing the sdcard with the new image and following the (very detailed) instructions would be best. Right now you don’t provide enough details. That makes it very hard to help.
