System Monitoring

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Thank you obj, that makes much more sense to me now. I knew the newly swapped in antenna was less noisy from doing earlier scans, but I didn’t know how a noisier antenna would affect the overall stats. You suspected that the old antenna was consistently losing aircraft and then reacquiring them and that’s exactly what it was doing. The aircraft track on the dump1090 local display looked like a dashed line, not a solid black line as one would expect.

…Tom

42

I am now a member of the better informed by graphing! Thanks go out to all that have contributed to this effort!

Cheers!
LitterBug

43

Congratulations! You’ll wonder how you ever lived without them. :smiley:

44

It is not working for me with the stock PiAware.

Do I also have to install the lighttpd server?

I get the same missing directory errors, like in the beginning of the thread.

Also, there are no install and update files in the dump-tools directory.

Does this also install dump1090 mutability? Because the clocks on my dump1090 page now look different?

By trying to access IP-address/collectd, everything crashes, until I do sudo /etc/init.d/fadump1090.sh restart again.

I should not have tried this.

What to do, to de-install rrdtool & collectd?

45

I haven’t tried installing the graphing software on a stock Piaware image. If it’s not working for you, you can leave rrdtool and collectd installed. They aren’t interfering with Piaware. If you decided to delete them, run these commands.


sudo apt-get remove rrdtool && sudo apt-get remove collectd

Sorry it didn’t work for you.

46

Tom, can you please post the code for your signal graph? I’d like mine to look like that. Thanks!

47

I’ve been playing with the files quite a bit over the last few days, give them a try and if there is any changes you’d like me to try, please let me know.
…Tom

Here is the index.html file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/he7r15c3dfx31bn/index.html.tjowen?dl=0

and the make-graphs.sh file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/7m7in9er3xd9beh/make-graphs.sh.tjowen?dl=0

And the code for the signal graph…

signal_graph() {
rrdtool graph
“$1”
–start end-$4
–width 480
–height 200
–step “$5”
–title “$3 Signal Level”
–vertical-label “dBFS”
–upper-limit 2
–lower-limit -15
–rigid
–units-exponent 0
“TEXTALIGN:center”
“DEF:signal=$2/dump1090_dbfs-signal.rrd:value:AVERAGE”
“DEF:peak=$2/dump1090_dbfs-peak_signal.rrd:value:AVERAGE”
“CDEF:us=signal,UN,-100,signal,IF”
“AREA:-100#00FF00:Mean Level\:”
“AREA:us#FFFFFF”
“GPRINT:signal:AVERAGE:%4.1lf”
“LINE1:peak#0000FF:Peak Level\:”
“GPRINT:peak:MAX:%4.1lf”
“LINE1:0#000000:Zero dBFS”
“LINE1:-3#FF0000:-3 dBFS”
}

48

Thanks! Works great!

I like a lot of views because I make frequent changes to gain levels, filters, amps, antennas, etc. My default view is 3h. This is a 6h view.

http://i62.tinypic.com/29zwh9d.png

49

Maybe I will try it again later with dump1090 mutability.

Thanks for the de-installation hint, this worked for me.

Additionally, I found out that there are still crone jobs active.

You can check by this: sudo crontab -l

And edit (delete) with this: sudo crontab -e

Just in case, someone else also want to get rid of it…

50

The dump1090 shipped with stock piaware doesn’t export stats, so, yeah, that’s not going to work.

By trying to access IP-address/collectd, everything crashes, until I do sudo /etc/init.d/fadump1090.sh restart again.

This is a longstanding bug in the upstream version of dump1090 (and one good reason not to expose dump1090’s webserver to the outside world)

51

One day, after collecting for 1 day…
(GMT)
Cheers!
LitterBug

Pretty sure this info will better explain what goes on to my stats when using the 820T2 vs 820T... :slight_smile:

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Outdoor roof mounted 8 Segment COCO, Sat diplexer, Motorola Amp, 40 feet coax, Ground block, 10 Feet coax, RTL 820T, Pi B+, Dump1090 Mutability

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http://i61.tinypic.com/14uwf4m.jpg

53

Would be interesting to see some 1 day plots from other users for comparison. :slight_smile:

Cheers!
LitterBug

54

Here you go, 1 day.

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55

Nice tjowen! I will be integrating your modified scripts shortly.

Cheers!
Litter Bug

56

@litterbug, my stats are suffering due to the leaves all around my property.

57

Awesome looking data and graphs. I assume this scripting only works for dump1090-mutability from prior user attempts?

Is there a version for stock PiAware dump1090?

What would be the process to take a stock PiAware setup and use Dump1090-mutability? Any directions easier than reading through the 382 posts on Raspian Dump1090- mutability packages with anectdotal comments, software version corrections, tangential comments, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

It seems like the software guys make/get all the cool toys and use non tekkies are lost since we are not sure how to move on from stock PiAware!

Brian

58

Jepolch,
My stats have surprisingly been minimally affected by the big bags of water. My stats are down more from the holiday travel.

Cheers!
LitterBug

added brief description of my config below graphs so we can get an idea what gear provides what graphs etc....

IE
Outdoor roof mounted 8 Segment COCO, Sat diplexer, Motorola Amp, 40 feet coax, Ground block, 10 Feet coax, RTL 820T, Pi B+, Dump1090 Mutability

59

I tried it too and here is a 24h result.
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/2/AABi3-aZmdIZWABWZWtsewBjE9q-xK8IsbAwskfLgIkQ1A/12/104333892/jpeg/1024x768/3/1432854000/0/2/Screenshot_2015-05-28-23-18-38_1.jpg/CMSE4DEgASACIAMgBCAFIAYoAQ/U_nCf6e4KQSF19ZxFkuATJD9QrUbJvS-sR5GHI_3i7o
I hope it works with my image here.

Ludger

60

For those who have used part or parts of my make-graphs.sh file, I’ve updated the imperial_range portion to appear opposite to the metric_range script showing Nautical Miles & Kilometres. The file can be found at the same link above.
…Tom