I have a Raspberry Pi on my roof running PiAware with a FlightAware Pro Stick attached. I can ssh into it to do any necessary update and lately I have not been able to get it to report. I don’t want to go up on the roof at 82 so my question this. Using Putty is there a way to one tell if the stick is plugged into a usb port and two is the stick active?
You may want to consider abandoning the “roof” setup and convert your Feeder antenna system to a ground based configuration. Hopefully your property and surroundings would be conducive to a ground based small tower install. Bring your RPi indoors and feed it with the ground based antenna.
How about through a laptop? not sure my rp is functioning, just want to verify my dongle(s) are valid before tearing my hair out.
Thanks all for the help. I discovered that the FlightAware Pro Stick had gone bad so I need to replace it on another trip to Brazil. Can’t move the location of the Pi because I can’t run antenna cable down 2 floors through 2 concrect walls.
Darn. Sounds like some challenging infrastructure. Best of luck.
Hi,
You mentioned earlier that you had remote access to the Pi over ssh which is hard to get to. It sounds like you have remotely determined that the FA Pro Stick is dead. Sometimes a USB device will lock up and appear dead. Often unplugging and plugging it back in will fix that.
Since the device is remote, you could use ssh to log in and try “usbreset” to reset the device. It might be easier to just log in and “sudo reboot now” to restart the entire device.
You did not specifically mention a remote reboot yet, so I’m not sure you have tried that.
Regards,
-Dan
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There is also GitHub - mvp/uhubctl: uhubctl - USB hub per-port power control which can fully cycle USB port power on some Pi models without a reboot. The details are very specific to the Pi model though.
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Interesting. I had a Pro (Blue) stick go out after somewhere just over five years. Both of my Orange sticks are still going fine and will hit ten years of operation this year.