Sooooo this seems strange.
I set up FR24 on a Pi. All good.
Set up PiAware on a Pi4 using relay from the FR24 hardware. All good.
I tried to set up a Pi Zero to do the same. (New SD card) Put the same three lines in the config file for the radio setup. But it never gets “1090 Data”. It’s green as far as Running and Connected to FA, but 1090 is orange.
Any ideas???
TIA
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A Pi Zero won’t work because it has no ethernet
You don’t need Ethernet to run a receiver. Is it better/more reliable sure but not needed. Now if it’s a pi zero and not zeroW then of course not because it would have no internet at all.
Double check your antenna connections. And maybe try it in another setup so see if that dongle in fact works. It could also be a simple reboot of the pi & it will fix it
Ah - true. I’ve been running mine headless for so long I don’t even consider a local setup!
However, this doesn’t make sense - how does it connect to FA without network?
@davidmc36, can you check the FA stats screen or the logs to see if the dongle is not receiving anything or the dongle is not connected.
If it is a pi zero 2, try adsb.im for the purpose.
The original pi zero is 32bit only and not supported.
With adsb.im you don’t need to setup up two devices for FA / FR24 either so it gets simpler.
As for why your current thing doesn’t work, that needs a better explanation of what device has the SDR and what device does not and the config for each.
Then checking the journalctl logs for what is going wrong.
This is normal in case of “Relaying”
Relaying data from one Pi running FR24+dump1090, to piaware on another Pi is done solely by piaware itself, using following settings.. The dump1090-fa of piaware install is not involved and is idle.
sudo piaware-config receiver-type relay
sudo piaware-config receiver-port 30005
sudo piaware-config receiver-host <<local ip of FR24 pi>>
sudo piaware-config receiver-type other
sudo piaware-config receiver-port 30005
sudo piaware-config receiver-host <<local ip of FR24 pi>>
In this setting, the dump1090-fa on piaware Pi is idle (no Dongle). As a result the piaware-web page at “local ip of piaware PI:80” shows “1090 Radio” as red.
The piaware will still continue pulling data from FR24 Pi and sendning it to Flightaware.
Thanks for all the replies.
To clarify, the unit running FR24 has the SDR, it stays there. It continues to run fine. No antenna issues etc. etc.
I run a second Pi with FA in relay at port 30002. It worked fine on a Pi4, seemed not so much on the Pi ZeroW
On my Stats page, it appears green….but nothing has shown up on stats. How long will it take to populate something?
I don’t see anywhere I can filter to just my uploads like on FR24 main map.
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The data at port 30002 is NOT compatible with piaware and the Flightaware stats page will show no data.
The data at port 30005 is compatible to piaware and if used instead of 30002, then progress will show on Flightaware stats page.
(1) Which image have you written to FR24 Pi? Is it Pi24 image provided by Flightradar24?
(2) Please copy-paste following command in terminal / PuTTY of FR24 Pi and post it’s output.
cat //etc/fr24feed.ini | grep receiver
I only saw 30002 dvbt and 30334 other available on the FR24 config screen.
I am using the image from FR24.
I am currently running on the Pi4 with port 30002 I have a fully populated local SkyAware map…..does that not indicate it is working at 30002
Output is: receiver=“dvbt”
I assume you would upload with current credentials to FA etc. and retain upgraded account status?
I have a Zero W. Is the first Gen 32bit OK? It is specified on some other systems if a Pi2 Zero is required.
It will work but if the area is congested it will under perform because it doesn’t have the processing power. Ideally you’d want a 4b
Halfway between CYOW and KMSS I’m in a pretty quiet spot really. Even if I put the antenna up another 20 feet it won’t be like I was around YYZ.
I am a bit suspicious of this piece of hardware actually. Another thing I was trying didn’t work either.
The port 30005 is available at dump1090-mutability running in Pi24 image, but is not shown on config screen of fr24feed. In your piaware relay settings change 30002 to 30005 by following commands
sudo piaware-config receiver-port 30005
sudo systemctl restart piaware
Many thanks for the input.
I was working to set up adsb.im and accidentally used the card from Pi Zero 
I will take a shot at .im on the 4 running in the garage with the Rx and pick up another card. Even if I don’t need it I would like to “Slay the Dragon” 
Will try the 30005 next card.
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That’s a slick setup. All running like clockwork.
THANX
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