PiAware 8 update is available through your My ADS-B Stats pages. As always, we appreciate the dedicated community on this forum for being quick to try out updates. Please let us know if you identify any issues.
What’s New?
piaware
Adds a systemd watchdog to restart piaware if it hangs. This mitigates an issue with tcl-tls hangs that can prevent piaware from restarting.
Rate limit location-related restarts to deal with unnecessary restarts caused by GPS-jitter
Avoid using receiver’s location if we know they are providing data from a wide geographical area
SkyAware
Improved visibility of map elements (range rings, altitude chart, etc.) on darker map layers
Distinguish heywhatsthat.com terrain rings from the range rings by applying color to the rings
Adds missing favicon and update Swiss flag icon with better resolution
dump1090-fa
Refresh the internal aircraft database
Fix dropped sample stats accounting
Implement ‘l’/’L’ Beast option to request local-data only
Emit receiver gain setting even when adaptive gain is off
Correctly handle gain stats on SDRs that don’t implement the gain interface
dump978-fa
fix compilation on newer g++ when building from source
piaware-ble-connect
Blink on-board LED when Bluetooth pairing mode is active
PiAware package installations
The piaware-repository packages used to configure APT to point to the correct FlightAware repositories have been replaced by the flightaware-apt-repository package. This automatically detects your Debian OS and configures APT so you no longer have to download the correct package for your Debian OS.
PiAware SD Card
Fixes an issue where on occasion when your DHCP server does not provide any NTP server info, dhcpcd will continuously restart ntpd.
Detailed changes and PR contributions can be found in the Debian changelogs:
Maybe I am doing something a little different than others, I normally upgrade with apt update via command line as I like to see what is going on, followed by apt upgrade and it just held back all the piaware updates. I had to run apt upgrade piaware-release first to allow it to download the new repository and then move forward. More of a note incase anyone else runs into it.
In general PiAware 8.1 is working fine. One nit is that graphs1090 is still not showing the gain value when adaptive gain is off. I thought the change mentioned above by eric1tran would fix this. Any help would be appreciated.
I have two RPis running in my garage. I updated both at the same time the day Piaware 8 was released. The update, using the ‘gear’ on the web page, went smoothly. The only ‘glitch’ was that SkyAware was still showing the previous version number. I waited a couple of days and updated again, no change.
I had to power cycle both RPis today and noticed that after that SkyAware is now showing the correct version.
That’s true, but I did not clear the cache. I’m not up to speed on browser ‘internals’ but would think that the cache may ‘refresh’ from time to time as well. That would also explain it.
In my case the browser is Safari on a Mac, and you can “Empty caches”. Don’t know what it is on other browsers. At first I didn’t empty caches and the changes mentioned by eric1tran in the first post did not show up – specifically:
**SkyAware**
* Improved visibility of map elements (range rings, altitude chart, etc.) on darker map layers
* Distinguish [heywhatsthat.com ] terrain rings from the range rings by applying color to the rings
* Adds missing favicon and update Swiss flag icon with better resolution
Then did empty caches, and the changes showed up in SkyAware.
A way to determine that the new version of the SkyAware page is being displayed is that the altitude chart at the bottom of the map now has a box around it like so:
Hey sorry to possibly as this sill question, but when i run
sudo apt full-upgrade
I get a whole bunch of 404 errors and it says
unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing
when I try “sudo apt-get-update” it says
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. see apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
and I have no idea what that means. Can someone please help me upgrade? I am still running PiAware 6.0 and cross feeding to FR24 if that makes a difference.
and it seemed to work, but now I dont have the landing page that shows the status of the receiver and instead have a log in page where if i log in takes me to the command line
