Hello,
I have been running my 1090 and 978 receivers on separate Pi’s for a while. One thing I have never figured out is the notification emails and outages regarding 978 UAT only.
Everyday I get a:
“This email is a friendly notification that your PiAware Site xxxxxx is not currently sending live flight data to FlightAware. Your receiver last connected to FlightAware on 02-Nov-2022 06:39PM. This may represent a problem in your setup that may need your attention.”
and a little later:
Your PiAware Receiver Site xxxxxx is now sending data to FlightAware.
The above tells me that the receiver hasn’t received any GA aircraft to track and hence has not sent tracking data to FlightAware because there is nothing to send- is my assumption correct? I had my notifications set to an outage of every 12 hours and then turned off my notifications all together because I got tired of seeing them. Is FlightAware ever going to fine tune the prerequisites (978 UAT specifically) for an email notification that is a real outage (failure of Pi/dump978/etc.)?
Thanks!
This is not easy. During bad weather, like snow or fog or storm, I can go for 24+ hours without receiving GA UAT traffic. The weather is simply not good enough for most GA aircraft to fly. It is difficult for FA to detect if the lack of traffic is due to a faulty receiver or lack of traffic.
I totally understand what you are saying, from a programming aspect though FlightAware (piaware) could be setup to know if the RX is still active (connected) or if its not. This in turn could be utilized to allocate keep alive packets to the flightaware servers such as;
978FA is running
no issues with internet/dongle (duh)
No traffic seen
But in order for this to work Flightaware would have to invest time in modifying the UAT section of the piaware software which I would imagine does not generate revenue for them and is therefore not a priority- this was not meant rudely just matter of fact.
Thank you for the reply. I understand what you are saying regarding wanting to detect a failure of “connected but sending no data”. That being said and in regards to 978 UAT being unable to separate a lack of GA aircraft to track or hardware/antenna/RX failure; generating a notification becomes pointless because you simply ignore the alert if its generated daily.
If there were a way to separate the two (lack of aircraft/SDR failure that would make more sense- I believe there is.
For 30 bucks or so, you could add a cheap 1090 SDR to the pi. That would get rid of the messages and even up your global stats if you care about that. Sorry I don’t have a software suggestion for your current setup though.
