Piaware-web

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?

Thanks.

It’s nominally part of the sdcard image, so when the sdcard release happens

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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 remember The Castle some one should now say “tell him he’s dreaming”

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.

What is version number of piaware-web you built & install? Output of following command will show the version installed:

apt-cache policy piaware-web

 

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ apt-cache policy piaware-web
piaware-web:
  Installed: 10.2
  Candidate: 10.2
  Version table:
 *** 10.2 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Great. :+1:
This shows that the piaware-web previous version (ver 10.2) works OK on Trixie also.
Dont hae to wait for ver 11

I have built & installed ver 11.1~alpha from dev branch on Ubuntu 26 (resolute). Works OK

 

Where is the dev branch?
Does ver 11.1 of piaware-web have any additional features compared to 10.2 ?

@jimMerk2

(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.

Humans are cleverer than AI :wink:

DOWNLOADED

pi@rpios-trixie:~ $ wget http://apt.svc.flightaware.com/piaware/release/pool/piaware/p/piaware-web/piaware-web_10.2_all.deb

 

INSTALLED

pi@rpios-trixie:~ $ sudo dpkg -i piaware-web_10.2_all.deb


 

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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 ?

Piaware-web is not available in Flightaware’s Trixie repository, BUT it is available in Flightaware’s Bookworm repository.

The download command which I used, actually downloads it from Flightaware’s Bookworm repository. :wink:

On Trixie you cannot just do sudo apt install piaware-web because it is not available in Trixi repo.

What I did was a hybrid action:
(1) While on Trixie, download package from Bookworm repository.
(2) Next installed downloaded package on Trixie.

 

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Is there a difference between PiAware-web and the skyaware page included in the standard software installation?

YES

(1) piaware-web

Installed by command sudo apt install piaware-web

(2) skyaware map

Installed by command sudo apt install dump1090-fa

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.

Thanks… I now have the webpage up and running on Trixie. Thanks!

It would be nice to have the memory utilization shown as well.

Have you looked at Wiedehopf’s graphs?

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On Trixie I have tried following three, and did not notice any difference.
Their appearance is same and all these worked the same.

  • ver 10.2
  • ver 11.0~dev
  • ver 11.1~alpha

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.

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/adding-a-link-to-piaware-home-page/58790

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.