PiAware not sending data, but still shows as online

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Earlier this week I experienced a strange issue, albeit it has happened to me before I flashed to a new install of 10.2, but this is the first occurrence while running 10.2

I received an automated alert from Flightaware on Sept 1 at 11:00pm that my PiAware was no longer providing data to Flight Aware. As my unit is remote from me, I looked at my stats page only to note that the page listed the unit as being online, last check in was 2 minutes ago, but yet the hourly report graph looked like this:

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A view of Skyaware confirmed no traffic from that unit on the map. The unit does not respond to commands sent from the stats page, but a simple unplug/plug-back-in fixes the issue. The chart shows data stopped being fed at or round 11:00am 9/1.

What I find odd-

  • Why is no traffic being sent to FlightAware, but the stats page still shows the unit as being online?
  • Why did I receive an outage alert 12 hour later, when my settings are set to an email alert 6 hours after an outage?

This unit is running 10.2 (I will reflash to 11.1 when I am able to get to it) and this symptom had happened to me numerous times before prior to flashing it to 10.2.

Any thoughts?

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Have you checked piaware-status?
Have you restarted?
sudo systemctl restart piaware

This unit is running 10.2 (I will reflash to 11.1 when I am able to get to it)

I’m obsessed with the latest versions of everything. Which isn’t always a good thing…

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I don’t have a way to check piaware-status since the unit is not physically near me and I’m not familiar with the processes to remote in if there is a way to do so. Same thing for sending a restart command.

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When logged in you can see the log of the pi when you are on the stats page.

On the right side you will see a grey cogwheel, click that and you will have the log on the bottom of the page that opens when you click it.

That will give you some more insight on what is actually happening for the last 3 hours or so.

From the same page you can also send remote commando’s if you configured that when you have setup the system

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Very familiar with these features. The day this issue happened I did note that the log looked strange. The unit was not responding to any commands sent via the webpage.

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