A couple of small dish antennas are needed to qualify for government work. 
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A black Chevy Suburban with tinted glass could be helpful too
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This is smart idea. Instead of you climbing up and down a ladder while antenna stays on roof, you reversed the situation by making antenna climb up & down the rails, and you stay at ground. 
Are you using a PC power supply case for the system? That looks great.
Sorry @NeoDuder but you have just been beaten in the number of dongles 
Maybe his house is 25-30 meters high?
Exactly. When I was younger I used to climb antenna towers with no problem but climbing rickety extension ladders with no real safety equipment makes me very nervous.
The Nvidia Jetson series has an ecosystem around it much like (but not as big) as the Raspberry Pi. The case is from Geekworm who also make Pi cases and accessories.
Sorry, the roof is only about 10m AGL. It’s about 1890m MSL though. Does that count? 
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Hello!
I’ve shown you my latest setup some weeks ago. I’ve been running into performance issues, and after a nasty error which made me burn out the PSP stick (I’m ashamed, really. I may explain how I did this), I’ve decided to try a new layout.
This time, if I keep the PoE (to me, it’s a too good thing to dismiss it), I’ve decided to make use of the built-in USB port of the OrangePi Zero, and not any longer one of the prewired ones on the 13-pins connector.
I also keep a good physical separation between network/supply circuits and the radio signal, which is carried through a 1m (3ft) RG-58 coax.
As the OPiZ’s power supply connector is now against the border of the box, I’ve used a Micro-USB PCB and wired it to the 26-pins expansion connector.
The fan control PCB (a bipolar transistor, mostly) is secured on the fan, upside-down to let the box be closed.
The fan itself is powered through the expansion port -thought it would have been smarter to harness it to the power connector), and still turned on and of by a GPIO port.
The system looks way less neat, way more messy than before, mostly because of the fan wiring, and because of the two BME280, wired on I²C buses (that’s a deliberrate waste of resources, here: I had several buses available, so hooked one per bus, but both could be on the same bus). There I ran into another issue : I had Dupont lines of 10 and 20cm (4, 8 inches), and it was a tad too short to use 4 inches, so way too long for 8 inches. I think we’ve all been there.
I still think I have non-optimal performances (compared to my previous setup, which was at the exact same place, with the same radio and the same antenna), but there again there’s too few traffic since lockdown to have a reliable comparison.
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This is my up-dated configuration.
3D printed case for the Pi and screen and clips for the filter.
Well chuffed with the result.
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Now the setup looks more tidy, but still in progress
I’ve managed to put some heat sinks in the dongle, not sure if it was necessary…
Also now I have a fan that is controlled by the CPU temperature using Node-Red and also have a DHT-22 sensor to monitor the case temperature and humidity, all data is sent to Influxdb.
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Still looks way more tidy than mine (the wiring makes it look way more messy).
I do appreciate the Grafana dashboard How do you feed it?
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I’m just starting with Grafana but it look very powerful.
I have Node-Red installed in the Flightaware feeder and it feeds data to my old RPi B that is running Influxdb and WireGuard VPN (so I can access home when not at home), then I have Grafana in my PC because I couldn’t managed to have it running in the RPi B.
I think there are free Cloud alternatives to Influxdb, have to take a look.
(slightly off-topic here, I know)
I run Grafana on a Raspi 2B, I can’t remember anything special during installation. I use a script to fetch information from my Raspi-like and send them to a MariaDB server running on the Pi.
There is a dump1090 exporter available which pulls data and bring it to a Prometheus DB. Then use the dashboard → done.
I was running that for a while, but at the end do not see benefits over the graph1090 scripts.
AFAIK that’s the dashboard used for the ADSBx image
Hi pretoescuro. How do you get the screens you have shown?
This PiAware’s DPD antenna is at the top of a fifty foot tower, attached by fifty feet of LMR400 to the box in an unused second floor bedroom, powered by POE from where the DSL enters the house.
The antenna was installed in the new location Saturday, October 3, 2020. And you can see the improved statistics here. https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/va3kxp#stats-115198
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Hello @nigelf63, I’m using Grafana to generate the graphs using the data stored in the Influxdb and the realtime graph is generated by Node-Red using “node-red-dashboard” palette.
Nicely laid out box and setup!
Which PoE breakout board are you using?
Any breathers on that box?
Thank you!
The POE is a custom unit supplied by a friend of mine.
The box has no breathers on it. It was actually air tight when I got it. I got it from Amazon (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005UPANU2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1).
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Hi all,
I’m thinking about moving my ADS-B setup outdoor to deck. Is it a good/bad idea to have Pi’s and LNA’s power supplies in the same enclosure with Pi, LNA and RTL-SDR? I want to just have power cable and coax coming into enclosure with WiFi for network communication.