Filezilla works fine. I like its GUI, as compared to the others, that’s all.
I placed the files and folders where I did because of permissions. I did not explore other workarounds.
Could caps be a factor? For example, I see basestation, Basestation, BaseStation. I did not try it, but in my case it was BaseStation, and this is exactly how I entered it. Same with Silhouettes, silhouettes.
I also added the flightroute.sqb now, and everything is working as expected.
Just an observation, I always do a sudo reboot after any changes, to ensure things were written to the SD card, instead of modified only in volatile memory, and being lost after future power cycles.
Unlike the pictures, the silhouettes need basestation for the aircraft type/model. There is another piece of info that also requires basestation in order to be displayed, but I cannot remember which one now, I’m away from my home PC.
If you want routes, you need to add the flightroute.sqb. Most flights with a flight number will display the route.
Update: The other piece of info that needs the basestation.sqb file to be displayed on MM2 is Registration.
The old saying is “Baby Steps”
This evening I decided to go one step at a time. I installed and configured MM2 with the basestation.sqb and it works. I see the registrations and aircraft Model/type showing on the “Flights” display.
The basestation.sqb I imported from my copy of Plane Plotter after I updated it.
So I think that it could have been a possible bad .sqb file or it could have been corrupted when I FTP to my Pi. Plus I payed close attention to the editing of the mm2.sh file. Also I include the factor that my ignorance in Linux to be a big part of it. Now abcd567, my question what command do I use when I only want to edit the .sh directly? I edited the .sh by using your instructions how to replace it.
is it possible to update MM2 to version 20180311?
Raspberry Pi 2/3 (Broadcom SoC BCM2836/37, quad-core ARMv7/ARMv8): modesmixer2_rpi2-3_deb8_20180311.tgz https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c1DctOnblz7BBnnxJo7td7bdQubdJ1ZX (Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) (4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri Jun 30 14:47:43 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux))
1. if decoder is modesdeco2
must add the command --rbs (more cpu)
2. if decoder is dump1090-mutability
must add the command --modeac in EXTRA_ARGS="" line (last line usually) under /etc/default/dump1090-mutability
3. if decoder is dump1090-fa NOT the FA SD image eg (debian-lite, raspbian-lite/full gui etc) RECEIVER_OPTIONS="--gain gg.g --ppm pp --modeac --net-bo-port 30005" /etc/default/dump1090-fa and also to /etc/piaware.conf add allow-modeac yes
4. if decoder is dump1090-fa / FA SD image
gets bit more complicated (if I remember correctly - been few weeks since the test)
because on every reboot the contents of the dump1090-fa are manipulated by the /boot/piaware-config.txt among others under /var/lib/
so in /etc/rc.local before the line exit 0 I added sudo view1090 --modeac --interactive &
(this of course will cause the display - if not headless and depending on it - to display aircraft data
continuously till stopped with CTRL-C or CTRL-Z )
if --interactive is omitted the display will be flooded with ‘running’ aircraft data.
a noticeable increase in message rate will also appear in Skyview.
@evangelyul
That is the point!!!
I remember initially my bandwidth meter was not working, but yesterday when I checked, I found it working. I did not understood how it started working but was happy.
After seeing your post, I realized that couple of days ago I have added following entry to feed Basestation software which I have installed on Windows:
Bandwidth meter is now working and I will probably go back and install sbs. As a learning lesson, the bandwidth meter is showing the through put data bandwidth that MM2 is providing.
