ab cd
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Dump1090-mut's frequent, sudden & silent deaths (heart strokes? ) have spoiled the whole experiment of bazooka dipole.
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ab cd
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Oh no! I have used the same raspbian wheezy image for both Pi B+ and Pi 2
jepolch
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Is there one? I haven't seen it.
ab cd
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I checked Rasberry Pi official site. There is only one image of Raspbian Wheezy,and there is no mention of separate lmages for model B+ & model 2. From where to download wheezy image for model 2?
bramj
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Oh no! I have used the same raspbian wheezy image for both Pi B+ and Pi 2
Did you upgrade the OS.? New kernel drivers for the ARM7 / hardware ect..ect...
http://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry...spbian-on-your-microsd-for-the-raspberry-pi-2
Option 3..?
ab cd
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microSD Card #1:
I formatted the microSD Card#1, then downloaded the new version (raspbian-wheezy-2015-02-16) from the RaspberryPi web site, and wrote the image to the microSD Card #1. Then inserted the microSD Card #1 in RPi Model 2, and configured Wheezy, installed dump1090-mutability, Piaware data feeder, FR24 data feeder, node.js & Planefinder data feeder.
microSD Card #2:
I inserted the microSD Card #2 in RPi Model 2 and gave following commands:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgradeAnd after all this, the dump1090-mutability keeps on dying regularly & silently
xforce30164
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I cant make the graph yet, I'll be going home for the weekend and need my pc running for the range graph, but next week il l reset the range graph andlet it run. I did notice my yagi is somewhat directional buy also receives from other sides.
giacomo1989
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Have you checked the logs?microSD Card #1:
I formatted the microSD Card#1, then downloaded the new version (raspbian-wheezy-2015-02-16) from the RaspberryPi web site, and wrote the image to the microSD Card #1. Then inserted the microSD Card #1 in RPi Model 2, and configured Wheezy, installed dump1090-mutability, Piaware data feeder, FR24 data feeder, node.js & Planefinder data feeder.
microSD Card #2:
I inserted the microSD Card #2 in RPi Model 2 and gave following commands:
Code:sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
And after all this, the dump1090-mutability keeps on dying regularly & silently
giacomo1989
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jepolch
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I'm having nothing but troubles today. I'm in the process of rebuilding my primary feeder Pi. OS got corrupted somehow. I'm beginning to think these microSD cards don't last very long.Here I'm running 24/7 without a single issue
ab cd
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Good that you found the instructions.
I have posted it in Flightradar24 forum, not in Planefinder forum, as it is more relevant there.
Anyway for future reference to anyone else requiring the instructions, here is the link to my post in FR24 forum:
http://forum.flightradar24.com/thre...-Install-Raspian-OS-Dump1090-FR24-Data-Feeder
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jepolch
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Thanks. It's not been a great week here. My primary feeder Pi (with the "magic" spider) has seen its numbers go way down. The second Pi with the new spider and new coax is doing better than the primary, but the numbers are still not up to where the primary was before the changes.
Yesterday the primary feeder starting getting segmentation faults when I ran commands like 'apt-get'. dump1090 was still running and feeding, lighttpd still worked, but I couldn't do any command line work. Finally I took it down and re-imaged the SD card and put it back in service and it's working fine now. Today is very foggy and my reception is usually lower on foggy days. The weather has been rainy or foggy since I did the antenna work. I need about three perfect weather days in a row to see how things are really doing.
radiostationx
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I too have had crashes numerous from both FA version of dump1090 and mut version.
Back now to Malcom Robb fork but a question ,
If dump1090 is run using ssh from command line :
cd dump1090
./dump1090 --interactive
There is a column "Signal" which is very handy for testing antenna installations.
I know that some wise users have customised their dump1090 :8080 web page display with the addition of range rings and other items.
Is it possible to omit an existing column such as "seen" and replace with "signal". Or just add the signal column to the display grid.
Just a thought and a request/wishlist for you clever chaps out there.
Thanks in advance.
By the way, I used the guide from kind member ab cd to install PF Client on my rpi which went okay .Thanks ab cd...but
1. Surely should there not be an official document/guide from PF regarding installation.
2. The install is lengthy,can this not be simplified into a single .deb install file ?
And please PF /Pinkfoot please tell us how to uninstall if things go wrong in future...good luck with googling that !
If the install was simpler, and and official guide to installing and uninstalling made I am sure you would get more users sharing data. Lord only knows how members managed to set up before ab cd created the guide a few months ago.
Back now to Malcom Robb fork but a question ,
If dump1090 is run using ssh from command line :
cd dump1090
./dump1090 --interactive
There is a column "Signal" which is very handy for testing antenna installations.
I know that some wise users have customised their dump1090 :8080 web page display with the addition of range rings and other items.
Is it possible to omit an existing column such as "seen" and replace with "signal". Or just add the signal column to the display grid.
Just a thought and a request/wishlist for you clever chaps out there.
Thanks in advance.
By the way, I used the guide from kind member ab cd to install PF Client on my rpi which went okay .Thanks ab cd...but
1. Surely should there not be an official document/guide from PF regarding installation.
2. The install is lengthy,can this not be simplified into a single .deb install file ?
And please PF /Pinkfoot please tell us how to uninstall if things go wrong in future...good luck with googling that !
If the install was simpler, and and official guide to installing and uninstalling made I am sure you would get more users sharing data. Lord only knows how members managed to set up before ab cd created the guide a few months ago.
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jepolch
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Well, some good news. I have figured out why the primary feeder ("magic" spider) was reporting such low numbers this week: the grounding block! When I added new coax to the secondary Pi's antenna I did two other things that day. 1) I added the decoupling coils to the coax of each antenna, and 2) I added the grounding block. Since that time, my reception has been down. I didn't know if it had to do with weather or the coils, or the ground, or even Raspbian, or the dongles - or what! This morning I decided to disconnect the primary Pi's coax from the grounding block and connect it directly to the receiver. Immediately the messages per second doubled! Yup! The number jumped from the 300's to the 600's just by cutting out the grounding block! I guess the block had a pretty large loss factor.
xforce30164
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Something like this?
I'm currently working on both an php-based more configurable user interface as I just now came up with an idea for a more configurable interface based on the local dump1090 files too. If it is releasable I'll make the code available. If you are sure enough, you can add this yourself by editing the following files:
In the file gmap.html:
Change:
Code:
<td id="msgs" onclick="sortByMsgs();" align="right">Msgs</td>
<td id="seen" onclick="sortBySeen();" align="right">Age</td>
Code:
<td id="msgs" onclick="sortByMsgs();" align="right">Msgs</td>
<td id="signal" onclick="sortBySignal();" align="right">RSSI</td>
<td id="seen" onclick="sortBySeen();" align="right">Age</td>
Code:
<td align="right">MSGS</td>
<td align="right">SEEN</td>
Code:
<td align="right">MSGS</td>
<td align="right">RSSI</td>
<td align="right">SEEN</td>In the file script.js:
Add:
Code:
function sortByRSSI() { sortBy('signal', compareNumeric, function(x) { return x.rssi; }); }Change:
Code:
tableplane.tr.cells[7].textContent = tableplane.messages;
tableplane.tr.cells[8].textContent = tableplane.seen.toFixed(0);
Code:
tableplane.tr.cells[7].textContent = tableplane.messages;
tableplane.tr.cells[8].textContent = tableplane.rssi;
tableplane.tr.cells[9].textContent = tableplane.seen.toFixed(0);radiostationx
Member
Yes thats great work xforce,
I am thinking perhaps your RSSI version may be slightly confusing for non radio users (the lower the negative value, the higher the signal strength received).
The "sig" table in dump1090 --interactive uses a positive scale 0-100 which may seem more user friendly and is easier for a user/non tech savvy to compare constantly changing values.
Nice one though xforce, im impressed.
Is there a way to sort the list of aircraft dispalyed by sig strength ,distance, altitude and so on by clicking the table header ?
In other words, by clicking on the green band header called "distance" would sort the aircraft list by the closest to the station first and the farthest away at the last position in the table.Or vise versa by clicking on the distance header once more.. Now that would be marvelous as a user could arrange their own way to show the dump1090 output aircraft list "on the fly".
Great for station testing purposes.
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