Hi.
I’m trying to reconfigure MLAT to work with ModesMixer2, but I can’t make PiAware to listen on port 31003. This is the line of MLAT result afiter “piaware-config -show”
What does /tmp/piaware.out say? It will log the exact command line that mlat-client is started with. Given that neither listen port is bound, I’d say that mlat-client failed to start (or mlat is not enabled)
01/28/2016 17:45:53 ****************************************************
01/28/2016 17:45:53 piaware version 2.1-5 is running, process ID 1582
01/28/2016 17:45:53 your system info is: Linux rtl.jonis.com.br 4.1.13-v7+ #826 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 13 20:19:03 GMT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
01/28/2016 17:45:53 Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware.flightaware.com/1200
01/28/2016 17:45:53 ADS-B data program 'modesmixer2' is listening on port 30005, so far so good
01/28/2016 17:45:53 Starting faup1090: /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout --lat -21.171 --lon -47.821
01/28/2016 17:45:53 Started faup1090 (pid 1618) to connect to modesmixer2
01/28/2016 17:45:53 Connection with adept server at piaware.flightaware.com/1200 established
01/28/2016 17:45:54 FlightAware server SSL certificate validated
01/28/2016 17:45:54 encrypted session established with FlightAware
01/28/2016 17:45:54 autoUpdate in adept config is enabled, allowing update
01/28/2016 17:45:54 manualUpdate in adept config is enabled, allowing update
01/28/2016 17:45:54 multilateration support enabled (use piaware-config to disable)
01/28/2016 17:45:54 piaware received a message from modesmixer2!
01/28/2016 17:45:54 logged in to FlightAware as user jmaurin
01/28/2016 17:46:18 piaware has successfully sent several msgs to FlightAware!
01/28/2016 17:46:23 9 msgs recv'd from modesmixer2; 8 msgs sent to FlightAware
01/28/2016 17:51:23 90 msgs recv'd from modesmixer2 (81 in last 5m); 89 msgs sent to FlightAware
01/28/2016 17:55:28 lost connection to modesmixer2 via faup1090
01/28/2016 17:55:28 reconnecting to modesmixer2
01/28/2016 17:55:28 no ADS-B data program seen listening on port 30005 for 0 seconds, next check in 60s
01/28/2016 17:56:23 202 msgs recv'd from modesmixer2 (112 in last 5m); 201 msgs sent to FlightAware
About ModesMixer, it’s running. This logs is before I started ModesMixer. About worked before, never. Where do I set location? I have location set in my ModsMixer2 and in my site in Flightaware, nothing else. As I can see, piaware is not even trying to start fa-mlat-client
You need to set the location at flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/jmaurin. I see you’ve just done that now; if you restart piaware it should pick up the change.
Yep, I’ve set before…but for some reason, didn’t worked. Now I can see mlat is starting, but still not data
This is my setup now:
ModeSDeco2 is running to get ADS-B and MLAT data, and listening on port 30014 for MLAT, 30011 for SBS1001, 30013 for MSG and 30015 for BEAST. This is the command line:
This tells mixer to connect to modesdeco2 on port 30015 to get ADSB data, connect to modesdeco2 on port 30014 (should be MLAT data), listen on port 30005 as a server and send BEAST data.
And this is the current configuration for piaware:
Yep, now it’s starting. But I couldn’t see any MLAT message (counter = 0) in my flightaware statistics page
Ond more info:
01/28/2016 19:43:53 mlat(9207): Receiver status: connected
01/28/2016 19:43:53 mlat(9207): Server status: synchronized with 1 nearby receivers
01/28/2016 19:43:53 mlat(9207): Receiver: 33.3 msg/s received 0.7kB/s from receiver
01/28/2016 19:43:53 mlat(9207): Server: 0.0 kB/s from server 0.0kB/s TCP to server 0.1kB/s UDP to server
01/28/2016 19:43:53 mlat(9207): Aircraft: 3 of 6 Mode S, 2 of 8 ADS-B used
You also need 3-4 other active MLAT receivers nearby.
I looked at your location and don’t see many close to you(The map doesn’t have a scale so it is hard to work out).
Looking at your excellent reception range, I expect that you should get some MLAT hits on a daily basis.
Your busiest time seems to be around 11AM local. Maybe check then.
About my range, I’m kind happy with that. I’m just little sad with Flightaware…I’ve asked for FlightFeeder, but I’ve got no as answer…There are smaller cities near me that have Feeder, but doesn’t cover my Area. I know that there’s one user very, very close to my location with FlightFedder…it’s in Sertãozinho, about 20km from here. But this users rarely is online…most of time, offline, like now.
My range is with and homemade antenna (franklin) and homemade LNA + filter for 1090Mhz. I asked for FlightFeeder because I think I can make a better range with ‘professional’ antenna and receiver.
The Flightfeeders are nicely packaged and come with a well built antenna but looks are not everything.
The Piaware systems and homemade antennas can be equal or better than the FlightFeeder in performance. And, they also support MLAT while the FlightFeeders do not.
You need to get some friends in your area to add Piaware setups and share data links. Then you will have both greater range and MLAT coverage.