Hello all, so this summer I bought a pi and a dvb-t stick to set up a ais system for my sailboat (still working on that one ) and found out that you can also track planes, how cool, so after following the steps on pimylife I get this error message, I cant even get to see it on my laptop (before making it to the flightaware site) as it is shown in several youtube videos. So as you can see on the photo I have no ip address, why? the pi is connected to my laptop (via ethernet cable) , I am in Canada using Bell, nothing particular. What do I do wrong?
Beware, I am not a coder or a computer whiz, please explain this in simple terms, how do I assign an IP address to my piaware so I can then punch it into my browser and see planes.
Lets put a twist, could I do it via wifi instead?
In the photo I have not connected the receiver, but that made no differences.
You may need to turn on âinternet connection sharingâ or similar on your laptop (I donât have any real experience with it though) if you want to route the Pi through your laptop to the internet.
That said, your Pi isnât seeing the dvb-t dongle eitherâŚ
Can you explain what youâre trying to set up, exactly? You will need internet access for the local aircraft map to work (the map tiles are retrieved from the internet) and to allow uploading data to FlightAware. If you donât have internet access available where the receiver is, then the piaware sdcard image is not really suitable.
But as you can see in the photo I posted in my original post, I have no ip address assigned, so I cannot enter it in my browser!
My laptop has high speed internet via wifi, so I do have internet. And once I have my pi connected to flightaware I would ideally prefer to communicate via wifi to upload data.
Piaware will try to get an address via DHCP, which is a mechanism for assigning IP addresses automatically. You need something connected to the Pi that provides DHCP. Usually this will be provided by your router / modem. If you directly connect your Pi to your PC, thereâs nothing providing DHCP on that network segment between the laptop and the Pi.
âinternet connection sharingâ may be the simplest way to make your laptop provide DHCP and let your Pi get an address, so that is probably the simplest thing to try first.
Or if you have a router that handles your WISP connection, you could just plug the Pi into that.
Another option is to assign a static IP address to both the laptopâs ethernet interface and the Piâs interface, but that requires some knowledge of how to set up networking.
If you have a local wifi network I would take out the SD card and edit the file piaware-config.txt
The lines to modify are: âwireless-allow yesâ, âwireless ssidâ, and âwireless-passwordâ
Put the SD card back into your pi and it should connect over wifi.
More PiAware Configuration information can be found here
) and found out that you can also track planes, how cool, so after following the steps on pimylife I get this error message, I cant even get to see it on my laptop (before making it to the flightaware site) as it is shown in several youtube videos. So as you can see on the photo I have no ip address, why? the pi is connected to my laptop (via ethernet cable) , I am in Canada using Bell, nothing particular. What do I do wrong?
