I’m considering setting up a PiAware system, but was wondering if it would be possible to just use a regular computer, instead of a RaspberryPi? Since it’s just Linux, it should still function the same on either, unless there’s something in this custom build that’s kernel-specific to only a Pi.
Will a regular computer work for this?
You’ll need to compile the software, piaware and dump1090-fa work fine on x86 (or x86-64).
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Using a linux with the debian package system is gonna be much easier.
So Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian Desktop … or any of the derivates of those.
Without the debian package system you’ll have to know how to install a systemd service and stuff.
It’s annoying and not straight forward.
I mean it’s straight forward but you need to unpack the debian package, see what directories it creates and which files are needed.
And so forth.
This is an automated installation with scripts that do the compiling, so it works on x86:
Except it doesn’t compile dump1090-fa because usually the version is not the correct one.
(Relying on a version number and then using master is just a bad idea.)
Clones and buils from source code of master branch (without specifying version number or branch), so always installs the latest version.
sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/fr24feed-debian-ubuntu-amd64/master/install-dump1090-fa.sh)"
Here is the install script which is used in the bash command in my above post:
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\e[33mupdating.....\e[39m"
apt update
echo -e "\e[33mDUMP1090-FA\e[39m"
echo "Installing packages needed to build, and needed to fulfill dependencies....\e[39m"
apt install -y git lighttpd build-essential debhelper librtlsdr-dev
apt install -y pkg-config dh-systemd libncurses5-dev libbladerf-dev
echo ""
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mInstallation of dump1090-fa dependencies & tools completed...\e[39m"
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mCLONING THE SOURCE FILES.....\e[39m"
git clone https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090.git dump1090-fa
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mMOVING INTO CLONED DIRECTORY ....\e[39m"
cd ${PWD}/dump1090-fa
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mBUILDING DUMP1090-FA PACKAGE ....\e[39m"
dpkg-buildpackage -b
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mINSTALLING THE DUMP1090-FA PACKAGE ....\e[39m"
cd ../
dpkg -i dump1090-fa_*.deb
echo ""
echo ""
echo -e "\e[33mWORKAROUND (Ajax call Failure) ....\e[39m"
wget -O /etc/udev/rules.d/rtl-sdr.rules "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr/master/rtl-sdr.rules"
echo ""
echo ""
echo -e "\e[32m===============\e[39m"
echo -e "\e[32mALL DONE - dump1090-fa (Flightaware version)\e[39m"
echo -e "\e[32m===============\e[39m"
echo -e "\e[32m(1) In your browser, go to web interface at\e[39m"
echo -e "\e[39m http://$(ip route | grep -m1 -o -P 'src \K[0-9,.]*')/dump1090-fa/ \e[39m"
echo " "
echo -e "\e[31mREBOOT YOUR COMPUTER IF MAP DOES NOT SHOW, OR SHOWS ERROR MESSAGE\e[39m"
echo -e "\e[33mIn case you want to change/add settings of dump1090-fa, edit following files:\e[39m"
echo " sudo nano /etc/default/dump1090-fa "
echo " sudo nano /usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/config.js "
echo ""
So this needs to be complied on a Linux system and then copied over to a windows PC?
Huh? The question is about a PC running Linux. Nothing about Windows in the thread.
Sorry, thought it was about windows. Brain just thought windows when I read PC is all.
Thanks for the help. Will give this a shot.
Sorry, one other question…
Ubuntu is Debian-based, would that also work, with minimal differences to the Debian comments listed above?
YES.
I have tested it on intel PC on following 4 distros. Works like a charm on all 4.
Just copy-paste into terminal the bash script given below, and it build and installs dump1090-fa.
sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/fr24feed-debian-ubuntu-amd64/master/install-dump1090-fa.sh)"
Clones and builds from source code of master branch, so always builds the latest version of dump1090-fa.