Good Morning,
I purchased this kit from flight aware to track planes and my personal plane with the 978mhz kit Ive been trying for days to get my Pi connected. i have done everything in the directions. my wifi ssid and password are correct. im just straight up lost at this point. i have even watched youtube videos. anyone know what i am doing wrong or to check? Im using starlink internet if that helps.
Hi @thecottonpatch, can you email adsbsupport@flightaware.com? They should be able to assist you.
I put together a FlightAware Pi Zero kit for 1090 four months ago and no matter water I did the wifi config setup would not connect with my network. I ultimately ran a hard line ethernet cable to the PI and connected it up with a ethernet dongle and activated a ethernet connection line item in the config and off I went. Runs like a dream on the hard line ethernet connection. I am almost glad the wifi didn’t work because the ethernet connection is far more stable.
I just set up the 1090 kit today. I followed all the instructions and the first time, nada, “piaware” never showed-up on my LAN. So I reflashed the image, checked and double-checked I had specified wired “no”, wireless “yes”, and the SSID and password correctly in the piaware-config.txt file, and rebooted the Pi (I made really sure the micro SD card was totally seated in the socket), and waited… This time, success! I’m totally amazed to be receiving signals from 250+ miles away using the little indoor antenna (located outside though).
Don’t know if this will help you at all cottonpatch, but good luck (it’s worth the effort)!
Thanks for the reply. I’ve gotten mine all setup and running. I’ve been consistently having 250k + position reports for the last month. Then all of a sudden it’s been slowing going down to low 100k reports. Not sure what’s going on now
If you are in the USA, air traffic has dropped significantly over the last week due to the holiday. I went from 650k messages per day down to around 285k and planes from 2500 to 1600. See what happens for the rest of the week. Best wishes for all of our systems. Lightning got one of mine a while ago.
Thanks for the reply. Todays been the lowest so far at 64k reports. Hopefully it will start rising again.
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