PiAware suddenly went offline!

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Hello,

Our PiAware has been running fine until this afternoon and suddenly stopped working. When I logged into the Pi and saw the status, below is what I saw. Also, in the PiAware home page, I have 1090 Radio and MLAT both are in RED color. PiAware and FlightAware are in GREEN. Any idea what is going on? I did try to restart Piaware via “sudo systemctl restart piaware” and I still have the same problem.

Thanks in advance,
Satish

pi@piaware:~ $ sudo piaware-status
PiAware master process (piaware) is running with pid 11691.
PiAware ADS-B client (faup1090) is not running.
PiAware ADS-B UAT client (faup978) is not running (disabled by configuration settings)
PiAware mlat client (fa-mlat-client) is not running.
Local ADS-B receiver (dump1090) is not running.

no program appears to be listening for ES connections on port 30005.
faup1090 is NOT connected to the ADS-B receiver.
piaware is connected to FlightAware.

got ‘couldn’t open socket: connection refused’
dump1090 is NOT producing data on

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Afternoon,

First of all you should edit the post and remove your feeder ID.

This is your problem.

You can restart dump1090 or better restart the Pi.

S.

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Your site has been deteriorating badly over the past month.

Your number of aircraft, positions and your range have all halved since the start of november.
Have you made any changes that would explain this drop?

Start by changing your USB power supply.

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@SweetPea11 @geckoVN

Thank you. As I indicated in the post, I already restarted the Pi to no avail. But, I did notice that my antenna moved away from where I originally kept it. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good fixture to keep it steady somewhere. I need to find one that suits my antenna (FlightAware 1090 MHz Antenna | ADS-B Flight Tracking). For now, I moved the antenna back to where it was and restarted the Pi. Everything works now! Thanks again for your quick response.

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“Rebooting” and “Restarting” are not the same thing.
A full power-cycle may solve a problem that rebooting won’t.

It looks like your site is back to pre-november numbers.

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@geckoVN

Agreed. I should have done a full power-cycle to begin with yesterday. Anyways, it’s all good now. Thanks.

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