I've fed since 2015, initially on a Pi v1, then Windows, then a Pi Zero. Also on Linux Mint and a Macbook. Just stating that to show I have a bit of experience.
When I got the Pi Zero (when Windows was depreciated) I simply stuck in the card from my original Pi and all was well. Months later I had range issues which turned out to be the DVB-T stick. So as I had replaced that I decided to re-format the card and re-install everything to bring it all up to date. This is what happened - and I'm sure, had I been a new feeder, I would have given up.
Formatted card, installed Rasbian (without the educational stuff), added "ssh" and wlan settings in the root. It's headless so I could then use the terminal on a Mac to get VNC server running etc with raspi-config. All fine.
Went to the FR24 share-your-data which gives a link to this page: https://forum.flightradar24.com/foru...Raspberry-Pie=
That post dates from 19th May 2015 and surely should no longer be linked to?!?!
Anyway I followed the instructions and it didn't work. It was lightpd causing most of the errors. It hadn't installed correctly I think. But I couldn't re-install it, I couldn't re-configure it, I couldn't remove it. I followed loads of instructions by abcd567 posted all over the place but nothing worked. FR24 feed was fine, it was all dump-mutability with a FAIL - receiver - down every time. And I did try as DVB-T, ModeS (Beast) TCP etc and lots of variations of Host/IP. After about six hours I gave up. If I'd been a newbee I would have flogged the Pi Zero on eBay at that point almost certainly.
Then I spotted an Oblivian post which had a link to wiedehopf's GitHub to install dump1090-fa. Ran the command. Everything installed. All running perfectly. It's here:
https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-sc...or-dump1090-fa
So the moral of all that, and the reason for this post, is that I'm sorry to say that I think the installation instructions available for a new feeding person to follow on this forum are abysmal. It may be that the minimal FR24 image is fine but most people with a shiny new Pi are likely to want to install raspbian or something aren't they? And then they should have a simple list of basic instructions to follow to set up a feed for FR24. No criticism intended of anyone's hard work - just my observations from my re-installation.
When I got the Pi Zero (when Windows was depreciated) I simply stuck in the card from my original Pi and all was well. Months later I had range issues which turned out to be the DVB-T stick. So as I had replaced that I decided to re-format the card and re-install everything to bring it all up to date. This is what happened - and I'm sure, had I been a new feeder, I would have given up.
Formatted card, installed Rasbian (without the educational stuff), added "ssh" and wlan settings in the root. It's headless so I could then use the terminal on a Mac to get VNC server running etc with raspi-config. All fine.
Went to the FR24 share-your-data which gives a link to this page: https://forum.flightradar24.com/foru...Raspberry-Pie=
That post dates from 19th May 2015 and surely should no longer be linked to?!?!
Anyway I followed the instructions and it didn't work. It was lightpd causing most of the errors. It hadn't installed correctly I think. But I couldn't re-install it, I couldn't re-configure it, I couldn't remove it. I followed loads of instructions by abcd567 posted all over the place but nothing worked. FR24 feed was fine, it was all dump-mutability with a FAIL - receiver - down every time. And I did try as DVB-T, ModeS (Beast) TCP etc and lots of variations of Host/IP. After about six hours I gave up. If I'd been a newbee I would have flogged the Pi Zero on eBay at that point almost certainly.
Then I spotted an Oblivian post which had a link to wiedehopf's GitHub to install dump1090-fa. Ran the command. Everything installed. All running perfectly. It's here:
https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-sc...or-dump1090-fa
So the moral of all that, and the reason for this post, is that I'm sorry to say that I think the installation instructions available for a new feeding person to follow on this forum are abysmal. It may be that the minimal FR24 image is fine but most people with a shiny new Pi are likely to want to install raspbian or something aren't they? And then they should have a simple list of basic instructions to follow to set up a feed for FR24. No criticism intended of anyone's hard work - just my observations from my re-installation.
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