I deployed ADS-B using an Intel mini computer that I already had running VMWare’s esxi 6.7 for another purpose. While familiar with the Raspberry Pis I did not have an extra one and did not want to buy one just for this purpose especially since I already had a host capable of running this.
I deployed the virtual machine using Ubuntu server 18.04 (because I already had the ISO and was familiar with it…plus the bionic release was one supported by the distribution for self compiling)
I followed the instructions offered by @abcd567 (Thanks!) listed on this forum here: Anyone working with the new x86 Raspbian - #104 by abcd567
They worked very well except near the end there were about 4 dependencies that were missing. That was resolved by copying the 4 that were missing and running “sudo apt install w x y z” where wxyz were the names of the missing dependencies. I also got warnings about encryption signing for a couple hard-coded email addresses. These did not seem to cause any issues.
I am waiting for my antenna (amazon) and antenna cable (AIR802) to arrive to actually start collecting data but the unit is up and communicating with the mothership.
Jan 14 09:09:28 ads-b01 piaware[940]: site statistics URL: https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/scdickey#stats-118873
Jan 14 09:09:29 ads-b01 piaware[940]: ADS-B data program ‘dump1090-fa’ is listening on port 30005, so far so good
Jan 14 09:09:29 ads-b01 piaware[940]: Starting faup1090: /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout
Jan 14 09:09:29 ads-b01 piaware[940]: Started faup1090 (pid 1096) to connect to dump1090-fa
Jan 14 09:09:29 ads-b01 piaware[940]: UAT support disabled by local configuration setting: uat-receiver-type
Jan 14 09:10:00 ads-b01 piaware[940]: 0 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa; 0 msgs sent to FlightAware
Jan 14 09:10:09 ads-b01 piaware[940]: piaware received a message from dump1090-fa!
Jan 14 09:10:48 ads-b01 piaware[940]: piaware has successfully sent several msgs to FlightAware!
Jan 14 09:15:00 ads-b01 piaware[940]: 8 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (8 in last 5m); 8 msgs sent to FlightAware
Jan 14 09:20:00 ads-b01 piaware[940]: 8 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (0 in last 5m); 8 msgs sent to FlightAware
Jan 14 09:25:00 ads-b01 piaware[940]: 8 msgs recv’d from dump1090-fa (0 in last 5m); 8 msgs sent to FlightAware
