Archived - Beta test MLAT software for Raspberry Pi

[roofer]

I can't get my feed to FR24 working.

Background:
I have been running fr24feed on a RPi2 for nearly 5 years.
At 07:05 on the 16th January 2018, fr24feed shut down (maybe an update happened then?) and it has taken me a few days to restart it.
In the end, I had to reinstall the whole thing (version is now 1.0.19-5).
Now, it's running fine and I can see the planes in my area at http://rpi2:8080/
But I am not feeding to FR24, I have re-run

sudo fr24feed --signup

and entered all the requested information (email, FR24 key, Lat, Lon, altitude etc.) but still no joy.

pi@rpi2:~ $ fr24feed-status
[ ok ] FR24 Feeder/Decoder Process: running.
[ ok ] FR24 Stats Timestamp: 2018-01-19 17:28:07.
[FAIL] FR24 Link: unknown ... failed!
[ ok ] Receiver: connected (287538 MSGS/0 SYNC).
[FAIL] FR24 MLAT: not running ... failed!

While dump1090-mutabi is happily tracking 43+ planes.

Any suggestions?

[helios]

It broke my existing dump1090-mutability installation by changing the permissions of /run/dump1090-mutability somehow, but that was easy to fix.

OT: does 1.0.18-5 for x86/x64 support MLAT too?

[littleclown]

Fixed - a lot of install atempts and reboots and looks ok now

[littleclown]

After upgrade:

[FAIL] FR24 Feeder/Decoder Process ... failed!


Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost fr24feed[6353]: /usr/bin/fr24feed --fr24key=[XXXXXXXXXXXX| Start feeding process manually (My sharing key is not XXXXX, I just edit this line )
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost fr24feed[6353]: /usr/bin/fr24feed --signup | Sign up and configure
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost fr24feed[6353]: /usr/bin/fr24feed --reconfigure | Change configuration
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost fr24feed[6353]: /usr/bin/fr24feed --version | Show binary version number
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: fr24feed.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder...
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder...
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: fr24feed.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder.
Jan 19 16:28:49 localhost systemd[1]: Unit fr24feed.service entered failed state.



Please assist

EDIT: After reconfiguration and restart I have the following:

Jan 19 16:34:46 localhost install_dump1090.sh[1185]: dump1090 is not found, downloading dump1090-mutability...
Jan 19 16:34:47 localhost install_dump1090.sh[1185]: info: Trying to set 'dump1090-mutability/auto-start' [boolean] to 'false'
Jan 19 16:34:47 localhost install_dump1090.sh[1185]: info: Loading answer for 'dump1090-mutability/auto-start'

[Lling]

ok khan. i will do it, when i am at home today. thx for your help

[Khan]

@Lling you can change your fr24feed.ini to any setting you want. Whether its dvbt or avr. Currently, I have one dvbt and one avr setup to get data from 30002. Both are working fine. Please share your fr24feed.ini file here and explain exactly how you are trying to set it up.

@dotsi: New status checking command: fr24feed-status

[eddegroot]

logmode="0" does not work anymore..this will harm my sd-card. reverting back to old version.

[dotsi]

After the update, I'm getting this error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo service fr24feed status
● fr24feed.service - Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fr24feed.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-01-19 16:33:12 EET; 49s ago
  Process: 674 ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod a+rwx /var/log/lighttpd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 666 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R nobody:nogroup /run/dump1090-mutability /var/log/fr24feed /run/fr24feed /dev/shm/decoder.txt (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 657 ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /dev/shm/decoder.txt (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 651 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /run/dump1090-mutability /var/log/fr24feed /run/fr24feed /var/log/lighttpd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 594 ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/fr24/install_dump1090.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 683 (fr24feed)
   CGroup: /system.slice/fr24feed.service
           └─683 /usr/bin/fr24feed

Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: Found 1 device(s):
Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 (currently selected)
Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: usb_claim_interface error -6
Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: Error opening the RTLSDR device: Device or resource busy
Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:33:57 | [reader][i]Connection terminated
Jan 19 16:33:57 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:33:57 | [main][i]Terminating child process 1352 with SIGTERM
Jan 19 16:33:58 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:33:58 | [time][i]Synchronizing time via NTP
Jan 19 16:33:59 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:33:59 | [time][e]Failed to synchronize time
Jan 19 16:34:01 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:34:01 | [time][i]Synchronizing time via NTP
Jan 19 16:34:01 raspberrypi fr24feed[683]: 2018-01-19 16:34:01 | [time][e]Failed to synchronize time

[Lling]

Sorry but this update doesn‘t help alot. Why i can‘t use dvbt anymore in the settings? With AVR the port 300002 is blocked. But its important if you have your own radar server.

[vejbymats@gmail.com]

Updated now and it works perfect!
Thanks to Khan, and all others involved!

[Khan]

New version 19-5 published. You can either leave your pi to be automatically upgraded to the new version or run

sudo /usr/lib/fr24/fr24feed_updater.sh

Changelog available at Release Information - Data sharing software

[zitek]

Seems to be a 19-5 available and is working for me right now.
Removed and installed via apt-get and also changed the fr24feed.ini from dvbt to avr-tcp, added host="localhost:30002" instead of path=/dev/... Not really sure what actually made the diffrence.

[Magnusgallstad]

Quick update here. We are doing some tests now and are hoping to have a new build ready sometime tomorrow.

Any news when this issue is solved ?

[vejbymats@gmail.com]

Quick update here. We are doing some tests now and are hoping to have a new build ready sometime tomorrow.

Thanks for info! I was about to reinstall... :-)

[Khan]

Quick update here. We are doing some tests now and are hoping to have a new build ready sometime tomorrow.