Alpha & Beta repositories for fr24feed

[Khan]

Looking at some recent posts, it has come to our attention that even though there are alpha & beta repositories, some of our hosts do not know about it as it is not very obvious. The reason why we sometimes miss some bugs is that there are not many users using these channels and therefore we would like anyone reading this to switch to the alpha or beta repository. Mostly beta. This will also give early access to any new features that are added.

Depending on the version you have installed, your sources file will either be in

$sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repo.feed.flightradar24.com flightradar24 raspberrypi-stable

OR

$sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fr24feed.list
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/flightradar24.gpg] https://repo-feed.flightradar24.com flightradar24 raspberrypi-stable

All you have to do is replace raspberrypi-stable with raspberrypi-beta or raspberrypi-alpha and save the change. As an example, it should look like this

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/flightradar24.gpg] https://repo-feed.flightradar24.com flightradar24 raspberrypi-beta

The same goes for Linux desktop, just replace "stable" with alpha or beta.

[mby]

Thanks for making it official.

Where to direct feedback to? – To this forum?

[Khan]

Any bugs that are confirmed by a few users in either the beta or alpha version should be reported to support[@]fr24.com.

But for feedback, the forum is probably the best medium. Ideally, a new topic is created for each version, and all the discussion/bugs are reported there. After a stable release is pushed, this topic is no longer used for bug reporting for the later versions. This will make it easier for us as well as forum users to stay up to date.