Is my RaspberryPi data feeding correctly??

[bribiewayne]

Newbie here again with a dilema question. (pS BTW have just installed new software - piece of cake)

My data feed status shows

sudo service fr24feed status
● fr24feed.service - LSB: Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/fr24feed)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-07-24 00:53:57 UTC; 8min ago
Process: 11717 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/fr24feed stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 11748 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/fr24feed start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/fr24feed.service
├─11764 /usr/bin/fr24feed -- --monitor-file=/dev/shm/fr24feed.txt ...
└─11786 /usr/lib/fr24/dump1090 --raw --mlat

Jul 24 00:53:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[11748]: Starting FR24 feeder: fr24feed.
Jul 24 00:53:57 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: Flightradar24 Decoder &....
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vinnyspb says results like this

$ sudo service fr24feed status
[ ok ] FR24 Feeder/Decoder Process: running.
[ ok ] FR24 Stats Timestamp: 2015-07-01 07:55:45.
[ ok ] FR24 Link: connected [UDP].
[ ok ] FR24 Radar: T-XXXX12.
[ ok ] FR24 Tracked AC: 2.
[ ok ] Receiver: connected (3313 MSGS/0 SYNC).
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT: ok [UDP].
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT AC seen: 5.

My system may need some after market parts. Any suggestions please.

[Oblivian]

Jessie handles the service differently.

For the same output you need to apply a patch

http://forum.flightradar24.com/threads/10070-MLAT-Driving-me-mad?p=77657&viewfull=1#post77657

But using the web config page is your best bet to see whats going on also

http://forum.flightradar24.com/threads/9866-Fr24feed-software-Additional-FAQs-and-Info

[p0werslave]

The command you ran is just related to the FR24feed service status - here's my output for comparison:

fr24feed.service - LSB: Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/fr24feed)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-07-23 14:19:55 UTC; 21h ago
Process: 565 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/fr24feed start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/fr24feed.service
├─625 /usr/bin/fr24feed -- --monitor-file=/dev/shm/fr24feed.txt --write-pid=/var/run/fr24feed.pid --quiet --log...
└─647 /usr/lib/fr24/dump1090 --net --gain -10 --raw --mlat

Jul 23 14:19:55 ADSB-1 fr24feed[565]: Starting FR24 feeder: fr24feed.
Jul 23 14:19:55 ADSB-1 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder.

Instead, in the SSH / Command Line you've used, run the command:

sudo tail -f /var/log/fr24feed.log

This parses the log file, and shows the current status of planes track / dropped etc.

You'll see something similar to my output (below):

[I]2016-07-24 11:19:54 | [feed][i]filtering out 30 overlapping AC (saving bandwidth)
2016-07-24 11:19:58 | [feed][i]sent 20,26 AC
2016-07-24 11:20:03 | [feed][i]sent 20,26 AC
2016-07-24 11:20:08 | [feed]removed 1 of 56 AC

Also, Navigate to 192.168.X.X:8754 which is Dump1090's config page, and this'll verify the planes currently tracked / uploaded.

Hope this helps

[Haggis2016]

I have run the sudo tail -f /var/log/fr24feed.log command to check I am sending data. How do I stop it showing the log and go back to a command prompt.