Unable to upgrade PiAware - best way to restart from scratch

[jhgreene]

Hi
I would appreciate some guidance and pointing in the direction of some clear step by step guides

I have been feeding FA and others (FR24 Radardbox Planefinder and ADSB) for 4 years using a FA blue dongle on RPi 3B+

My PiAware image is 6.1 and will not upgrade to 8.2 and so i need to start over

1. Please advise a recommended route to feed several aggregators (the above and others)
2. How do I ‘edit’ the installation so my current feeder ids are used so history of feeding is maintained

I am not married to PiAware so would appreciate the ‘best’ route ie one where setup isnt too technical (Pi command line stuff is OK) allows for ease of maintaince and setup and includes automatic gain, graphs and maps…

Much appreciate knowledgeable guidance… Im a bit swamped choosing between various images , dockers etc

THANK YOU

[abcd567]

Please brows following post:

PiAware for RPi OS Bookworm

Before you re-image a microSD card, retrive & save feeder keys Before you write fresh image, retrieve feeder keys from existing image, copy-paste and save these in Notepad on your desktop/laptop. 1.1 - Piaware feeder-id Following command will print feeder-id cat /var/cache/piaware/feeder_id xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx 1.2 - Plane finder share-code Give following command cat /etc/pfclient-config.json It will output following long line. Your Planefinder sharecode is the last item zz…

 

Next Do following:

NOTE:
It is better to keep the existing microSD card as is (as backup) and use a SPARE microSD card to re-image.

STEP-1:
Write RaspberryPi OS Bookworm image to microSD card using Raspberry Pi imager.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#raspberry-pi-imager

STEP-2:
Install dump1090-fa & piaware

2.1 - Download and install the FlightAware APT repository package, which tells your Pi’s package manager (apt) how to find FlightAware’s software packages in addition to the packages provided by Raspbian.

wget https://www.flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/f/flightaware-apt-repository/flightaware-apt-repository_1.2_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i flightaware-apt-repository_1.2_all.deb

2.2 - Update your apt package sources and install PiAware. This will install all the required dependencies on your Raspberry Pi.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install piaware

2.3 - Enable automatic and manual (web-based, via your request) PiAware software updates. These updates are disabled by default. To leave updates disabled, skip this step.

sudo piaware-config allow-auto-updates yes

sudo piaware-config allow-manual-updates yes

2.4 - Download and Install dump1090-fa

If you don’t already have ADS-B decoder software such as dump1090-fa installed, then you can install FlightAware’s version of dump1090 by executing the following command.

sudo apt install dump1090-fa

 

STEP-3:
Install Flightradar24 feeder

3.1 - IMPORTANT: Make sure that dump1090-fa is installed before you attempt to install Flightradar24 feeder using the command given below

3.2 - Copy-paste following commaand in Terminal or PuTTY

wget -qO- https://fr24.com/install.sh | sudo bash -s

3.3 - During installation, you will be asked to enter email, sharing key (if you already have one) or latitude, longitude altitude etc.

At end it will ask following question. Type yes to answer

Would you like default configuration? (*yes*/no)$: yes

3.4 - When Installation completes, issue following commands

sudo systemctl enable fr24feed

sudo systemctl restart fr24feed

 

STEP-4:
Install Planefinder feeder

4.1 - nstall Plane Finder Client, use following commands:

wget  http://client.planefinder.net/pfclient_5.0.161_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i pfclient_5.0.161_armhf.deb

 

4.2- After installation is complete as above, type IP of RPi:30053 in your browser, and follow instructions on the page opened. The IP of RPi will be something like 192.168.2.12.

 

STEP-5:
Install Radarbox24 feeder

5.1 - Install rbfeeder using following command:
sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - http://apt.rb24.com/inst_rbfeeder.sh)"

5.2 - During installation you will be asked following question. Say no by typing n and pressing Enter Key.

Do you wish to install dump978-rb program? (y/n) n

5.3 - When installation is finished, issue following command to enter your key:
(Replace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by your rbfeeder key)

sudo rbfeeder --setkey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

5.4 - When Key is accepted, break the rbfeeder process by pressing Ctrl and C keys together

5.5 - Restart rbfeeder by following command

sudo systemctl restart rbfeeder

5.6 - Install mlat-client by following command

sudo apt install mlat-client

5.7 - open file /etc/rbfeeder.ini and set your latitode, longitude and altitude as shown in screenshot below.

5.8 - Save file and restart rbfeeder

suso systemctl restart rbfeeder

 

STEP-6:
Install grahs1090 by @wiedehopf

sudo bash -c "$(wget -q -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/graphs1090/raw/master/install.sh)"

 

[jhgreene]

Much appreciate your speedy detailed and clear step by step reply THANK YOU

[dirkhh]

Or you can make your life much easier and install something like the adsb.im feeder image which takes care of all the underlying software installs for you and presents you with a web UI to manage your feeder. Plus you can feed more than 20 different aggregators from that one system.
(shameless plug as I am the author of that project…)