I've had a little bit of difficulty with my Raspberry Pi feeder after an update on the Pi. I think I've that sorted now, but while trying to sort it, I realised that I don't fully understand some of the status message. Is there a guide anywhere to what the information means when I do sudo fr24feed-status?
Much of it 'appears' to be obvious but that doesn't necessarily mean that it means what I think it means! So I would be grateful if someone could point me to any documentation that explains it.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo fr24feed-status
[ ok ] FR24 Feeder/Decoder Process: running.
[ ok ] FR24 Stats Timestamp: 2021-02-24 16:45:59.
[ ok ] FR24 Link: connected [TCP].
[ ok ] FR24 Radar: x-xxxx.
[ ok ] FR24 Tracked AC: 0.
[ ok ] Receiver: connected (0 MSGS/0 SYNC).
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT: ok [UDP].
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT AC seen: 0.
Here is my understanding, which might be wrong!
The Feeder/Decoder process. Presumably this means that the service (program) is running on my pi. This being the service that uploads any data collected to FR24. It doesn't mean that any data is being collected nor uploaded, but rather that the service that attempts to collect it and upload it is running and will attempt to do so.
Time stamp is the time that this information is correct as it.
Link: in this case means that it's connected to the FR24 server using TCP. So I've got a connection from my pi to FR24.
Radar is just my radar identity
Tracked: is the number of aircraft currently within range of my receiver
Receiver connected (0 msgs/0 sync). The connected part I'm assuming means that it can see and read messages from my dongle. What do the msgs and sync part mean? Sometimes I see the msgs figure increase before returning to 0. What's the implication of this?
MLAT. I'm not really sure of this. It's failed until at least one aircraft is seen. I think it means that I've received at least one aircraft MLAT data back from FR24. But it could have failed since. I mean if I've received 1 MLAT data back from FR24 but since lost the connection, will this remain "OK"?
MLAT seen: Not sure exactly what this mean.
Any help would be very useful.
Thanks
Colm
Much of it 'appears' to be obvious but that doesn't necessarily mean that it means what I think it means! So I would be grateful if someone could point me to any documentation that explains it.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo fr24feed-status
[ ok ] FR24 Feeder/Decoder Process: running.
[ ok ] FR24 Stats Timestamp: 2021-02-24 16:45:59.
[ ok ] FR24 Link: connected [TCP].
[ ok ] FR24 Radar: x-xxxx.
[ ok ] FR24 Tracked AC: 0.
[ ok ] Receiver: connected (0 MSGS/0 SYNC).
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT: ok [UDP].
[ ok ] FR24 MLAT AC seen: 0.
Here is my understanding, which might be wrong!
The Feeder/Decoder process. Presumably this means that the service (program) is running on my pi. This being the service that uploads any data collected to FR24. It doesn't mean that any data is being collected nor uploaded, but rather that the service that attempts to collect it and upload it is running and will attempt to do so.
Time stamp is the time that this information is correct as it.
Link: in this case means that it's connected to the FR24 server using TCP. So I've got a connection from my pi to FR24.
Radar is just my radar identity
Tracked: is the number of aircraft currently within range of my receiver
Receiver connected (0 msgs/0 sync). The connected part I'm assuming means that it can see and read messages from my dongle. What do the msgs and sync part mean? Sometimes I see the msgs figure increase before returning to 0. What's the implication of this?
MLAT. I'm not really sure of this. It's failed until at least one aircraft is seen. I think it means that I've received at least one aircraft MLAT data back from FR24. But it could have failed since. I mean if I've received 1 MLAT data back from FR24 but since lost the connection, will this remain "OK"?
MLAT seen: Not sure exactly what this mean.
Any help would be very useful.
Thanks
Colm
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