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  • peterhr
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    Originally posted by SAFlyer View Post
    peterh - I must say thank you for the guide and support to the members here. Really good work and dedication

    With your help, I have my Pi running smoothly and feeding to FR24. A few hiccups along the way (mainly due to syntax issues - and the odd PEBKAC error )

    I get the feeling I had better results with the dongle when I had "--enable-agc" left out - letting the dongle use its own settings - maybe some other users can comment on their experiences?
    Hi all: this refers to content in the thread http://forum.flightradar24.com/threa...e-to-feed-FR24

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  • SAFlyer
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    peterh - I must say thank you for the guide and support to the members here. Really good work and dedication

    With your help, I have my Pi running smoothly and feeding to FR24. A few hiccups along the way (mainly due to syntax issues - and the odd PEBKAC error )

    I get the feeling I had better results with the dongle when I had "--enable-agc" left out - letting the dongle use its own settings - maybe some other users can comment on their experiences?

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  • peterhr
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    Originally posted by YSWG View Post
    I've had to kill the crontab, keeps killing my feed.

    fr24.sh runs fine when I run it via Terminal but when the crontab runs it, line 34 [./fr24feed_x64_241 --fr24key=yourkeyforfr24feedgoeshere] of the script causes it to terminate. Just when I thought I made a step forward, I've made two steps back.
    is the script trying to run it from the right place ... change the 'cd ~/dump1090' to a 'cd /home/whatever/dump1090' (to wherever the dump1090 executable lives)

    also don't need the line export FR24AUTHIP=83.140.247.20

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  • YSWG
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    I've had to kill the crontab, keeps killing my feed.

    fr24.sh runs fine when I run it via Terminal but when the crontab runs it, line 34 [./fr24feed_x64_241 --fr24key=yourkeyforfr24feedgoeshere] of the script causes it to terminate. Just when I thought I made a step forward, I've made two steps back.

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  • YSWG
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    Originally posted by HermanZA View Post
    Suppressing those commands, then it looks like this:

    [SIZE=1][FONT=Courier New]Found 1 device(s):
    0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 (currently selected)
    Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
    Max available gain is: 49.60
    Setting gain to: 49.60
    Exact sample rate is: 2000000.052982 Hz
    Gain reported by device: 49.60
    *8d00b20558b984cd4ce8ffb9690b;
    CRC: 000000 (ok)
    DF 17: ADS-B message.
    Capability : 5 (Level 2+3+4 (DF0,4,5,11,20,21,24,code7 - is airborne))
    ICAO Address : 00b205
    Extended Squitter Type: 11
    Extended Squitter Sub : 0
    Extended Squitter Name: Airborne Position (Baro Altitude)
    F flag : odd
    T flag : non-UTC
    Altitude : 36000 feet
    Latitude : 26278 (not decoded)
    Longitude: 59647 (not decoded)

    and so on ....
    Yep, I got the same output when I was mucking around with the code.

    Been doing some brain storming (more like frying my brain) as to why I couldn't get the fr24 feeder to work, seems Ubuntu didn't like
    Code:
    > /tmp/fr24feed.log &
    . Since removing it, it now starts up after dump1090 has started, though need to get the cron to work when the feed terminates (or I ended up being offline more then being online with the fr24 feed).

    My fr24.sh [with the fr24 key removed], based right off the pdf that was posted on Raspberry Pi type B + DVB-T Dongle to feed FR24.
    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides: fr24
    # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $time
    # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $time
    # Should-Start: $network
    # Should-Stop: $network
    # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
    # Short-Description: Start 1090dump and fr24 at boot time
    # Description: Start the RTL-SDR decoder and FlightRadar24 feeder at boot
    ### END INIT INFO
    #
    #updated 2013-08-29 - write /tmp/fr24feed.log
    #updated 2013-09-23 - Add INIT INFO section supplied by Jayant
    #
    #make sure fr24feed and dump1090 software are not running
    #
    killall fr24feed_x64_241
    killall dump1090
    #
    #start dump1090 – we don’t want output so throw it into a black hole (the null device)
    #the symbol at the end of the line says don’t wait for this to finish, just move
    #onto the next command (note dump 1090 needs to run the dump1090 folder
    #for the built in web page to work)
    #
    cd ~/dump1090
    ./dump1090 --enable-agc --fix --net --net-sbs-port 30003 --net-ro-port 31001 --interactive > /dev/null &
    cd ~
    #
    #start the fr24 feeder(use you own key)
    #
    export FR24AUTHIP=83.140.247.20;
    ./fr24feed_x64_241 --fr24key=yourkeyforfr24feedgoeshere

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  • peterhr
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    Originally posted by Dauren View Post
    I got it!
    I added to cron /bin/sleep 30
    Code:
     @reboot /bin/sleep 30; /home/odroid/fr24.sh
    0 */6 * * * /home/odroid/fr24.sh
    I don't know is it right solution but it works.
    It seems happens because cron starts earlier than /home directory mounts. And it can't find sh file to execute...
    If it works in an acceptable way, then it's as good a way to do it as any other.

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  • Dauren
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    I got it!
    I added to cron /bin/sleep 30
    Code:
     @reboot /bin/sleep 30; /home/odroid/fr24.sh
    0 */6 * * * /home/odroid/fr24.sh
    I don't know is it right solution but it works.
    It seems happens because cron starts earlier than /home directory mounts. And it can't find sh file to execute...

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  • peterhr
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    These problems seem to be odriod related - I wonder if they should go into their own thread.

    Will cron start other things - like echo "some text" > file.txt.

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  • Dauren
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    Originally posted by peterhr View Post
    so cron is running, you should be able to use cron to start the script


    do 'crontab -e' to edit the table of cronjobs

    first line is to start the feeder when the machine starts (allow 10 seconds for the networking to get started and settle down)

    @reboot sleep 10;/home/pi/fr24.sh

    (you will need to fix the file location)

    you might want to put a job in to restart the feeder occasionally

    see http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/...ntab-examples/

    for example to restart every 00:04 6:04 12:04 18.04 you might add a line ...

    04 */6 * * * /home/pi/fr24.sh

    The 04 is the minute to do it
    the */6 says take the hour number divide it by 6, if there is no remainder run the job
    Thanks, but
    I tried adding command line to cron, and also to rc.local . But no result. I checked manual execution of file. And it is ok.

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  • EDVE-15
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    Hi, this is my tmux session with dump1090 @ odroid- u3

    scaled_full_b1c50786378f8da90616.png

    but i have problems with fr24feed_arm-le_241s after 10-20 min feeding i become:

    Code:
    Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben)
    (Written dump (memory access error)
    Please help
    Last edited by EDVE-15; 2014-02-26, 22:28.

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  • peterhr
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    so cron is running, you should be able to use cron to start the script


    do 'crontab -e' to edit the table of cronjobs

    first line is to start the feeder when the machine starts (allow 10 seconds for the networking to get started and settle down)

    @reboot sleep 10;/home/pi/fr24.sh

    (you will need to fix the file location)

    you might want to put a job in to restart the feeder occasionally

    see http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/...ntab-examples/

    for example to restart every 00:04 6:04 12:04 18.04 you might add a line ...

    04 */6 * * * /home/pi/fr24.sh

    The 04 is the minute to do it
    the */6 says take the hour number divide it by 6, if there is no remainder run the job

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  • Dauren
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    Originally posted by peterhr View Post
    The problem is no one here is running the same system as you, so to some extent people are guessing what to say since they cant try it first

    It's simpler to use method 2 and if cron is running, it allows other timed events to occur, so lets test if cron is running...
    Thank you for reply.
    Here is result of my cron test:

    Code:
     odroid@odroid:~$ ps aux | grep cron | grep -v grep
    root      2181  0.0  0.0   1324   480 ?        Ss   07:57   0:00 anacron -s
    root      2184  0.0  0.0   2320   844 ?        Ss   07:57   0:00 cron
    Last edited by Dauren; 2014-02-26, 16:19.

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  • HermanZA
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    Suppressing those commands, then it looks like this:

    Found 1 device(s):
    0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 (currently selected)
    Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
    Max available gain is: 49.60
    Setting gain to: 49.60
    Exact sample rate is: 2000000.052982 Hz
    Gain reported by device: 49.60
    *8d00b20558b984cd4ce8ffb9690b;
    CRC: 000000 (ok)
    DF 17: ADS-B message.
    Capability : 5 (Level 2+3+4 (DF0,4,5,11,20,21,24,code7 - is airborne))
    ICAO Address : 00b205
    Extended Squitter Type: 11
    Extended Squitter Sub : 0
    Extended Squitter Name: Airborne Position (Baro Altitude)
    F flag : odd
    T flag : non-UTC
    Altitude : 36000 feet
    Latitude : 26278 (not decoded)
    Longitude: 59647 (not decoded)

    *5d00b085bba1c0;
    CRC: 000000 (ok)
    DF 11: All Call Reply.
    Capability : 5 (Level 2+3+4 (DF0,4,5,11,20,21,24,code7 - is airborne))
    ICAO Address: 00b085
    IID : II-00

    *8d00b205994520a2e0044ff0b2d4;
    CRC: 161c5e (wrong)
    No. of bit errors fixed: 1
    DF 17: ADS-B message.
    Capability : 5 (Level 2+3+4 (DF0,4,5,11,20,21,24,code7 - is airborne))
    ICAO Address : 00b205
    Extended Squitter Type: 19
    Extended Squitter Sub : 1
    Extended Squitter Name: Airborne Velocity
    EW status : Valid
    EW velocity : -287
    NS status : Valid
    NS velocity : -278
    Vertical status : Valid
    Vertical rate src : 0
    Vertical rate : 0
    and so on ....

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  • peterhr
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    Originally posted by HermanZA View Post
    My fr24.sh script:

    snip...
    cd /home/pi/dump1090
    /home/pi/dump1090/dump1090 --enable-agc --aggressive --net-http-port 8090 --net --net-sbs-port 30003 --net-ro-port 30002 --net-bo-port 30005 --quiet --lat -27.912 --lon 25.162 > /dev/null &
    snip...

    ..... Then its active
    The box is called PI, tho its not actually a Pi. :-)
    But the standard output from dump1090 is suppressed and is being dispatch into the black hole in this example...

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  • HermanZA
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    My fr24.sh script:

    #updated 2014-01-27 - write /tmp/fr24feed.log
    killall fr24feed_x86_240
    pkill -9 frfeed24_x86
    killall dump1090
    cd /home/pi/dump1090
    /home/pi/dump1090/dump1090 --enable-agc --aggressive --net-http-port 8090 --net --net-sbs-port 30003 --net-ro-port 30002 --net-bo-port 30005 --quiet --lat -27.912 --lon 25.162 > /dev/null &
    cd ~
    export FR24AUTHIP=83.140.247.20
    /home/pi/fr24feed_x86_240 --fr24key=my-key-goes-here 2>&1 | while read line; do echo $(date +"%d-%m-%y - %H:%M:%S") "$line"; done > /tmp/fr24feed.log &


    And when executed, this is all that I can see on the terminal....

    pi@ADS-B:~$ ./fr24.sh
    fr24feed_x86_240: no process found
    dump1090: no process found
    pi@ADS-B:~$ Found 1 device(s):
    0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 (currently selected)
    Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
    Max available gain is: 49.60
    Setting gain to: 49.60
    Exact sample rate is: 2000000.052982 Hz
    Gain reported by device: 49.60
    pi@ADS-B:~$

    ..... Then its active
    The box is called PI, tho its not actually a Pi. :-)

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