Radarbox stops feeding data all other feeders work

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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I noticed that rbfeeder stops sending data to radarbox,

i dit a restart, and than it start feeding again, but after a while it stops again.

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sudo systemctl status rbfeeder
give the following messages.

rbfeeder.service - RBFeeder Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rbfeeder.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-08-20 10:39:35 UTC; 6h ago
Process: 2897510 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir /var/run/rbfeeder (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 2897512 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown rbfeeder:rbfeeder /var/run/rbfeeder (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2897514 ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /var/log/rbfeeder.log (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2897517 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown rbfeeder:rbfeeder /var/log/rbfeeder.log (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2897520 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown rbfeeder:rbfeeder /etc/rbfeeder.ini (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2897522 ExecStartPre=/bin/setfacl -m u:www-data:rwx /etc/rbfeeder.ini (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2897524 (rbfeeder)
Memory: 21.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/rbfeeder.service
├─2897524 /usr/bin/rbfeeder
└─2897533 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/mlat-client --input-type dump1090 --input-connect 127.0.0.1:32457 --server mlat1.rb24.com:40900 --lat 52.011111 --lon 4.345346 --alt 20 --user EXTRPI252356 --results beast,c>

Aug 20 16:55:46 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:55:46] Data sent: 35.9 MB
Aug 20 16:55:46 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:55:46] Data received: 31 B
Aug 20 16:56:47 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:56:47] ******** Statistics updated every 60 seconds ********
Aug 20 16:56:47 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:56:47] Packets sent in the last 60 seconds: 1706, Total packets sent since startup: 819120
Aug 20 16:56:47 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:56:47] Data sent: 36.0 MB
Aug 20 16:56:47 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:56:47] Data received: 31 B
Aug 20 16:57:48 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:57:48] ******** Statistics updated every 60 seconds ********
Aug 20 16:57:48 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:57:48] Packets sent in the last 60 seconds: 1750, Total packets sent since startup: 820870
Aug 20 16:57:48 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:57:48] Data sent: 36.1 MB
Aug 20 16:57:48 odroid rbfeeder[2897524]: [2022-08-20 16:57:48] Data received: 31 B

does sombody know what is wrong?

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That is obviously a problem on their end.

My feed is showing the same pattern on the graphs with that yellow lines.
Seem to be a display error.

As long as the aircraft are shown on the map, i would not think about it.
It is not really “stopping”, only the graphs are bad.

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Fully agree.
Yellow bars appear on my site also. If aircraft are showing on the map, I simply ignore the yellow bars.

 

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Mine showing perfectly working.

Installed on a virtual Machine running on a TrueNAS host.
As Radarbox does not have an amd64 version, i am using the docker solution. Works like a charm

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On my Thin Client HP T520, with Debian 11.3 amd64

abcd@debian11:~$ sudo docker container ls -a

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

6c63ed5adf6c ghcr.io/sdr-enthusiasts/docker-radarbox:latest "/init" 5 weeks ago Up 13 days (healthy) 30105/tcp, 32088/tcp rbfeeder7295

 

 

 

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That is the solution i am using as well. I removed all my raspberries as it is waste of ressources having my NAS doing nothing else and is underemployed all day.

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That depends on how your are handling you NAS systems :wink: My systems are only powered on when needed, a NAS eats more power resources then a raspberry pi
An average NAS does use around 30 watts/hour and the Raspberry Pi uses 3,5 watts/hour.
So 9 Rapberry Pi’s equal 1 NAS roughly.

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My Thin Client HP T520 uses 10W

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My NAS is running 24x7 - Otherwise i would have serious issues with my wife.
Using a Fujitsu Esprimo Mini PC with low power usage if idle

But back to topic:

Checked my Radarbox profile and the yellow bars are almost all gone.

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Same here, but the yellow bars will reappear afterl few days, then again disappear. This cycle keeps on repeating.

Same is the case of Flightradar24 Statistics page.

The problem with both FR24 & RB24 seems to be their insdequate Server capacity.

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Not for me. The downtimes in my profile are caused by myself where i had the VM down.

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Lucky!
You seem to be connected to one of their lightly loaded servers.

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I seem to be lucky too

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and here too

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S.

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Maybe you had yellow bars, but they fixed it

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Possibly, but I was happy just thinking I was lucky.

S.

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Sure, some things are better to not been known :wink:

It’s a hobby and life does not depend on

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It started getting weird again.

Shows online, logs are reporting messages, bar is green, but map is empty

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Time to think about stopping the feed to RB

EDIT: 5 Minutes later the aircraft are back on map

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I am giving up RB now. Feeder stops working every now and then.
And the “free” premium features are not worth to get it.

Moved over to ADSB Exchange instead. Works on the VM hassle-free

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Seems dat I was offline for some time today, but only in Radarbox

Schermafbeelding 2022-08-23 om 19.04.12

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Contact Us - AirNav RadarBox - Global Flight Tracking Intelligence | Live Flight Tracker and Airport Status gives a support email address. Perhaps you should bring this up with them. There’s not a lot that FlightAware can do about RadarBox’s feeding software or website having problems.