"online - no data" => fr24feed doesnt upload data yet dump1090-fa dumps data

[abcd567]

Thanks for all your suggestions and help.

Some feedback to the log settings in your setup scripts: As I understand it - now - the log settings have no effect anymore.
It would be good if you remove them from your setup scripts (see below in the image) as for a beginner it's confusing - cause that is my first goto point to find out why my setup wasnt working.

Thanks for pointing out and suggesting improvement.

I have written the FR24 installation script 2 years ago on Jan 22, 2023. At that time the version of fr24feed was 1.0.34-0, which has provision of logging. Hence both the files "fr24feed.ini" and "fr24feed.service" contained logging.

Since then I did not update the code till two weeks ago in Janury 2025. At that time I only updated FR24 version to 1.0.48-0. I have not noticed that in this version they have removed logging to "/ var / log / fr24feed" folder, and instead they have directed logs (stdout & stderror) to journal.

Today, in my Github site linked in my above post, I have updated logging in both the service and ini files.
To test the updated script, I removed previous install and reinstalled fr24feed. Please see screenshots of these two updated files below.





almalinux-fr24feed-ini-rev.png


almalinux-fr24feed-service-rev.png


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[wiedehopf]

The fr24feed --reconfigure part of the guide would have still applied.
After all he was asking for settings for fr24feed.

[abcd567]

@wiedehopf
Alma Linux is based on Red Hat (RHEL), like Fedora and CentOS. Debian based programs dont work on it directly. One has to compile & install from source code or use precompiled Linux binary compatible to architecture (amd64, x86_64, i686 etc) of his machine.

@jobst
Although you have successfully built and installed a decoder and fr24feed, but for any future installation, please visit following site which provides scripts for automated compilation & installation of dump1090-fa, flightradar24 feeder, and planefinder feeders.


fr24feed-Fedora-OpenSUSE-CentOS-amd64

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[jobst]

Thanks for all your suggestions and help.

Some feedback to the log settings in your setup scripts: As I understand it - now - the log settings have no effect anymore.
It would be good if you remove them from your setup scripts (see below in the image) as for a beginner it's confusing - cause that is my first goto point to find out why my setup wasnt working.

In /etc/systemd/system/fr24feed.service there's also a line where the log directory is created, again a little confusing for a new user.
Note: I had to have a space between the / and the var, run and dev otherwise I would not allow me to submit.

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
LimitCORE=infinity
RuntimeDirectory=fr24feed
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p / var/log/fr24feed
ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p / run/fr24feed
ExecStartPre=-/bin/touch / dev/shm/decoder.txt
ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown fr24 / dev/shm/decoder.txt / run/fr24feed / var/log/fr24feed
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fr24feed
User=fr24
PermissionsStartOnly=true
StandardOutput=null

In ini file, remove following line

receiver="dvbt"

almalinux-fr24feed-ini.png

[jobst]

Thanks, but sorry can't use it, server is ALMALINUX.

receiver=dvbt is incorrect.

See the instructions here: https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wi...-fr24-optional

[jobst]

That fixed it, thanks.

In ini file, remove following line

receiver="dvbt"

In its place, add following two lines:

receiver="avr-tcp"
host="127.0.0.1:30002"

Restart fr24feed

[abcd567]

In ini file, remove following line

receiver="dvbt"

In its place, add following two lines:

receiver="avr-tcp"
host="127.0.0.1:30002"

Restart fr24feed

see status:
sudo fr24feed-status

Log:
sudo journalctl -u fr24feed -e


almalinux-fr24feed-ini.png


.almalinux-fr24feed-status-2.png


almalinux-fr24feed-status-1.png


almalinux-dump1090-fa-status.png
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[wiedehopf]

receiver=dvbt is incorrect.

See the instructions here: https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wi...-fr24-optional

[jobst]

Hi

New user.

System: AlmaLinux 8.10 running on a Xeon Server (24x7).

fr24feed and dump1090-fa installed/compiled, they are both running.

Hardware is "RTL-SDR R820T2 TCXO + A3 Antenna + Cable BUNDLE"
Hardware is discovered as "usb 2-10: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))"

I registered using "fr24feed --signup", I have got my key but on my online account it says "Online - no data".

dump1090-fa is running happily and dumping data.
I can see the data /run/dump1090-fa/aircraft.json, regular updates.
I can also see planes in the webapp running on my local webserver, the planes match the planes displayed on flightradar24.

This is my "/etc/fr24feed.ini"

receiver="dvbt"
fr24key="*******************"
bs="no"
raw="no"
mlat="yes"
mlat-without-gps="yes"​
​

I cannot see any log entries for fr24feed in the log directory "var/log/fr24feed"

I know when I set 'receiver="dvbt"' I need to have dump1090-fa running - which is.


I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
Please help, thanks.