For FlightAware staff: any prediction on when piaware-web will be available for Trixie?
Piaware-web is pretty convenient for navigating around the various pages associated with your account – eg. a link to the stats page for example. Also the piaware-web landing page gives a quick look at how things are working. Curious too, what changed in Trixie that requires piaware-web changes?
At a glance it shows that the receiver is working and it is talking to flightaware.
It also displays CPU load, CPU temperature and uptime (and for those that care there is also version number)
It would also be great if it displayed devices name and IP address and had a little hand that came out and scratched when it itches.
I mainly use a large desktop monitor or an 8"tablet so i have oodles of screen realestate and would really appreciate that information being available on the Skyaware page.
If you don’t want to wait until FlightAware releases the sd card for Trixie, you can build and install piaware-web yourself on Trixie.
I followed the instructions that AI provided to build and install piaware-web from GitHub, and it worked fine. There was one minor flaw – oddly the GitHub URL was wrong for the git clone. The command line for the clone should be: git clone https://github.com/flightaware/piaware-web.git
Otherwise, everything was correct.
(1) To build from development branch, clone source-code by following command::
git clone --branch dev https://github.com/flightaware/piaware-web.git
(2) No I did NOT find any difference between ver 10.2 and ver 11.1~alpha
(3 ) By following instructions of AI, you have proved (by building & installing) that piaware-web ver 10.2 is compatible to Trixie also.
Consequently, seeing your success, I also installed piaware-web ver 10.2 on Trixie, but instead of building it from source-code, I downloaded the package from Flightaware repository. This is easier than building from source-code.
Well, I phrased the question to AI as “How to build and install piaware-web”. I’m somewhat confused, I thought you couldn’t just download and install it (because piaware-web is not in the FlightAware repository).
Edit: So the difference is: download and install vs just install using apt ?
As @abcd567 has shown, piaware-web gives you a “landing page” for adsb. It shows status of how things are working and links to the SkyAware map and your stats page, Also if you have 978 UAT, it shows status for that too and a link to the SkyAware978 map.
A feature in piaware-web that would be “nice to have” is the ability to add links to other ads-b add-ons such as graphs1090. Here is a way to do it that was mentioned several years ago.
Basically, you need to edit the files /var/www/html/index.html and /var/www/html/index.js yourself.
(See message 8 of the referenced thread above for adding graphs1090 for example).
Course, the changes to those files will be overwritten with an update to a new version of piaware-web.