View1090 output on a very old tablet!

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Hello everyone!

Here’s a step by step guide to display the output of “view1090” in realtime on a VERY OLD tablet.
In my case, a Google Nexus 7 - 2013 - which won’t even connect to the Play Store anymore.
Hence, no Chrome updates and an unusable tar1090 web interface (won’t even load the map).

Hardware is Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian 10 “Buster”, Nooelec dongle but will work on any distro and architecture!

All commands need root.

apt-get install shellinabox
nano /etc/default/shellinabox

Last line should now read:

SHELLINABOX_ARGS="--no-beep --disable-ssl --service /:0:0:/root/:/root/siab.sh"

Save (ctrl+x) and exit. Now do:

nano /root/siab.sh

#!/bin/bash
tput civis
/usr/bin/view1090 --metric --lat 28.2828 --lon 11.1234 --interactive-show-distance --interactive-distance-units km

Finalize:

chmod +x /root/siab.sh
systemctl restart shellinabox.service

Navigate to http://PI_ADDRESS:4200

If you want your tablet to stay always-on while charging, you should enable “Stay awake” under “Developer options”.

Hope this helps, Cheers!!!

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Google says you could install some custom ROM on that as in lineage OS?
Maybe something to look into if you want a current browser.

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Thank you sir.
Yes indeed one could resurrect an old Nexus with some custom ROM!
I just wanted to share an “easy” solution to monitor one’s receiver!
I’m very impressed with your TAR1090, most of all with the ease of installation and upgrading!!
Cheers