Yeah the question really is: what is your current decoder …
dump1090-fa is a decoder and will replace your current decoder.
if you change the decoder you use, just reinstall tar1090 / grapsh1090.
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Thanks for the response
Is dump1090-fa the default decoder for Flightaware? (FA for Flightaware?) That would make sense.
I’ll give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks! I was wondering about that.
Yes, correct.
Please also check the full install script of readsb and tar1090 provided by @wiedehopf
readsb is a very good alternative/replacement to dump1090 with some advantages.
Available here:
But there you should have Raspberry OS installed and not the Piaware image
hey, is there a way to mark ALL planes yellow and ONLY military planes in red?
searched, but couldn’t find a way. Help is very appreciated!
No. The colors indicate the aircraft’s altitude. You can easily filter to show only military aircraft. Click the U button.
On my receiver i currently have the issue that the underlying map is loading very slow.
I know it’s not directly tar1090 related as the map is loaded via Internet.
But it happens on all map sources while the internet connection itself doesn’t have an issue.
Any ideas where i can start looking at?
Really nothing you can do about it.
But different map layers can be served from different servers, so try changing the layer.
You can check in the network tab in the dev console.
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Thanks
no idea what exactly was going on, but this morning it works with all maps again.
Maybe a temporary issue with my VPN connection.
Been updating my system recently (Airspy, new LNA (also nearer aerial) etc) and I noticed something this morning that I hadn’t before. There seems to be (quite) a difference between how many “Total Aircraft” the tar1090 page reports vs the graphs on graphs1090 that show Aircraft Seen.
E.g tar1090 was showing 329 (308 with positions):
But graphs1090 was showing about 270:
I know graphs1090 averages things out, but these graphs were 2 Hour ones.
I thought it may be something I have done, but checked my other feeder and that was similar, and so is one of Keith’s I looked at:
graphs1090: Performance Graphs (essexradar.co.uk)
As I write this, his tar1090 is showing 403 (376 with positions), but his graphs just about 350.
Is this just an oddity and the different ways tar1090 and graphs1090 show the totals, or is something wrong.
By the way, “Messages” seems fine, with graphs1090 showing what tar1090 is showing.
If i am not wrong @wiedehopf explained it somewhere in this mega-thread.
I has something to do with calculating the averages.
tar1090 will include aircraft in the number not seen up to 60 seconds.
graphs1090 will include only aircraft in the number not seen up to 30 seconds.
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Thanks, that explains it.
(P.S. I didn’t read this whole thread, but I did search before asking).
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Have you made a change to this in the last day or so?
I was setting up the Airspy on a new Pi4 today, and set up everything from scratch using your scripts. Once done I noticed the Aircraft count on tar1090 was much lower then my other site (using the Blue FA Stick) when it’s usually higher. Then when I looked at graphs1090 that showed the same number of aircraft as the tar1090 page.
I have also looked at Keith’s page again, and his graph1090 page seems to be showing the same aircraft as his tar1090 page.
I thought you may have updated something, so I “upgraded” tar1090 on the pi with the Blue FA Stick, and aircraft count dropped quite a bit from the previous minute or so, and that too now seems to show the same count on tar1090 and graphs1090.
You can see possible changes on the github pages of tar1090 and/or graphs1090
Thanks, I did look and couldn’t see the changes, but just looked again and found them now.
This is listed under the commits for yesterday:
fix aircraft not being cleared off the map
So yes, looks like the map now shows “less” aircraft (as in gets rid of aircraft more quickly). And as such now mirrors what graphs1090 shows.
After not updating for quite awhile, this morning I decided to run the update scripts (on github) to update Tar1090, graphs1090, and adsbexchange.
This evening looking at ptracks history I notice Tar1090 ptracks map is no longer showing any data in the “Max Distance” column. And the RSSI data is missing for many aircraft. Only showing RSSI for some aircraft that were seen in the past few minutes. The live Tar1090 map columns do show all the data though. Location settings seem fine and I see the black dot on the map. So this glitch is limited to Tar1090 ptracks view.
adsbx ip/adsbx/?pTracks=8 shows the “Max Distance” column data, but the RSSI column is empty for aircraft seen more than a few mins ago in most cases (maybe this is normal behavior for RSSI in old history?). /adsbx/ live map view looks fine though, showing all the data.
Any ideas on what I can check or tweak/fix? I did try restarting tar1090 manually. Should I have uninstalled Tar1090 since I’m pretty much only using /adsbx/ and adsbx-978 for the last few months anyway?
Nothing you could have done 
But now updating tar1090 is all you should need.
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Fixed. Thanks. 20 ch
