Assuming you’re running the Piaware standard 3.1.0 image, is there a file on the Pi that stores the Lat/Lon that’s used for MLAT and marking the station location in dump1090-fa? Can the coordinates be updated from the Pi itself, or are you required to use the FA web interface?
Considering scripting something up to update coords from a GPS receiver…
If you are using gpsd then it should automatically update.
See this post http://discussions.flightaware.com/post191874.html?hilit=gpsd#p191874
Ok, I will check that out, but what if I for some reason just wanted to update the coords manually?
if you run dump1090-fa --help you will see there are command line options --lat --lon to hard code it.
You need to use the web interface or the gpsd interface, other mechanisms won’t make it back to the FA servers.