I tried to install the above program but couldn’t get past the ‘make’ command. I gather that PiAware has a cut down OS that doesn’t have all the files of a normal OS?
I also gather that if I add PiAware as an add on to the latest Jessie light, that it will fail as per this post:
You are fine to install piaware from packages on a Jessie image. The upgrade problems specifically affect the piaware 3.3.0 sdcard image only.
The piaware sdcard images have a fairly minimal set of packages installed, but you can always install whatever extra packages you need via apt-get. If you are building something from source then “sudo apt-get install build-essential” will get you most of what you need.
No; you will need to set the “rtlsdr-device-index” configuration option to identify which dongle to use (by index or by serial number) if you are using a piaware sdcard image.
If you are using a piaware + dump1090 package install, you’ll need to configure dump1090 with a --device-index option.
The device index is just whatever order they happen to enumerate in, it’s probably tied to the physical USB port so you could try swapping the ports over?