My Piaware page opens but no planes as if there was no antenna. I updated to 8.2 because of the problem and it still won’t connect. I even installed a new Pi but with same result. New SD card with same result. I don’t know what to do.
Can you SSH connect to your Pi to look at the piaware-status?
sudo piaware-status
Did you copy and paste the Unique ID numbers/letters from the Stats page into the piaware config file?
feeder-id abcd1efgh2 and so on? 16 characters, if I remember correctly…
Hi. There is no such information in the stats section.
You should find a “Unique Identifier” under your FA “Site Information” banner.
To be more precise I did a fresh installation with 8.2 on a new Pi3. I double checked the Wi-Fi I entered in the config file; should be OK. But when I turn on the Pi3, nothing happens.
Have you tried a hard wired ethernet connection to your network?
Hi. No I can only use wi-fi. Thanks.
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just checking, but this is your station that was working, but started dropping out a week ago?
Looks like a soft power supply to me.
The Pi will start on a lower voltage than what the RTL dongle needs, so it ‘looks’ like everything is running, but the receiver is deaf.
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Hi. Should I replace the power supply?
that would be a sensible step to rule out that issue
If you have a working system that suddenly fails, changing settings etc. only makes sence if something else has changed.
SD card do wear out and/or become corrupted and SDR dongles do fail, but the easiest single thing you can do is swap the PSU.
Also, if it turns out not to be the problem, it is 100% reversable (also with minimal effort).
And having a spare power supply is a nice critical spare to have on hand!
I avoid the power issue by using PoE 12+ watts and 50+ volts. My Ethernet switch delivers that power to each of 8 ports feeding my RPi stack.
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New power supply same problem… what next?
As I said it’s a fresh install on a new SD card. Is there an issue with SSH. If yes how do I correct it? Thanks.
I previously asked you if you could ssh connect to the Pi and run the sudo piaware-status command but I did not see a reply.
Hi. Sorry regarding SSH. I don’t know what it does. Please describe what I have to do. Thanks.
SSH enables you to remotely connect to the Pi.
So you don’t need to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the Pi directly.
To make SSH working there are multiple solutions.
The most easy one in my opinion is to recreate the image on the Raspberry Pi by using their software, the raspberry pi imager.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
The software has some options including enabling SSH when you burn the image to the SD card.
Enable SSH, set a user and a password and give the system a hostname
So select the image you downloaded from Flightaware are the image you want to burn on the SD card, set the options and let the software burn the image. Then put the sd card in the Pi and boot up.