Hi, I’m happily running Piaware 3 on a RPi3 and its showing about 11% maximum CPU usage.
Some questions…
Can I use the same RPi for other stuff too, like looking at my own Stats and coverage or other browsing such as dev.wsprnet.org/drupal/ or for other radio software like FLDIGI?
If so how, as when I connect up a keyboard, mouse and screen and click on Internet I get the message
There is tons of room on a Pi 2 or 3 for other stuff to coexist, you should be fine.
Note that the piaware sdcard image is aimed almost exclusively at running piaware, so lots of stuff that would be on a normal Raspbian install (like the web browser, mentioned above) isn’t installed and will need to be added if you need it. Also, there are scripts that meddle with the system configuration based on the contents of piaware-config.txt, so be cautious about modifying anything it touches (there will be a big warning at the top of any such generated file)
If you have a lot of other stuff on there, at some point it may make sense to base it off a standard Raspbian install with a package-based piaware install, rather than the sdcard image.
Thanks both for the tips, its already improved things on my other Pi too
I’ve downloaded and installed Firefox/iceweasel on my Piaware but I was expecting a desktop icon. I’ll try a re-boot and see what happens…
I think I’d need more guidance/web search to add Piaware to an existing set up, but its all good learning.
UPDATE - It wouldn’t close down from the desktop so I sent it a remote command from my PC. Its back up but asking for a password. Neither pi & raspberry seem to work, nor my Flightaware one? Must be missing something…
and for your last question, if you set your working sd card to another rpi you are getting another radar code and you need to claim it, because your mac address is different.
cheers
