PiAware and FR24 issue after power outage or reboot

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I’m running PiAware and have installed FR24 to feed data to the site (I also feed RB, PlaneFinder and airplanes.live.) Everything’s been running nicely but I realized that when there’s a power outage (or a reboot) FR24 won’t restart automatically. I have to run the following command line

sudo service fr24feed start

or

sudo systemctl start fr24feed

to make it send data again. This issue started to happen when I reinstalled PiAware on a new SD card. My previous system didn’t have that issue. Where should I add either command line to have FR24 start automatically after a power outage (or reboot)?

(I posted this exact request on the FR24 forum but never got an answer.)

TIA

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As you have reinstalled everything fresh, your FR24 feeder is also latest.

Unlike previous versions of FR24 feeder, the new version is NOT enabled automatically when installed. As a result the FR24 feeder does NOT start automatically on boot.

Seems some wise :wink: FR24 programmer is influenced by the Arch Linux and Kali Linux which have this behaviour as default, and applied it to Debian in which opposite is default (i.e. the app is enabled automatically when it is installed).

Please issue following command

sudo systemctl enable fr24feed   
sudo reboot

This is only one-time action. After this FR24 feeder will always automatically start at boot.

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Thanks a lot for the explanation! Just issued the commands. Thank you!

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Nice to know the WHY and not just the fix!

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