Hi all,
I am extremely new to all this FR24 stuff (actually < 24hrs) and I am pretty clueless as far as Raspberry Pi and related things are concerned. I don't even know what a 'sudo' is, so you have to assume pond life if you are kind enough to answer my question.
I bought a Raspberry Pi 3B+. I loaded NOOBS and then the Raspbian software and actually got the whole thing to work, with it being plugged into my TV via HDMI. I had seen SSH mentioned before I did any of this and, after Googling what SSH was, I enabled it on my Pi. Good so far...ish
Next I followed the instructions on the FR24 website for downloading Pi24 and 'flashing' it to the SD card using Etcher. When I put the card back into the Pi and re-booted the FR24 screen came up but it didn't see my ADSB dongle. I have the Flight Aware Pro plugged into the Raspberry Pi. Somehow (a LOT more luck than judgement) I managed to SSH into my Raspberry Pi and typed the code as instructed on the FR24 page. That worked and I filled in all the necessary data and, long story short, actually managed to get all up and running.
I've been awarded a business account and if I go into the data it shows that I've seen some aircraft and their ranges. The weather here is pretty horrible at the moment (south of Perth in Western Australia) so I'm not going to see and light aircraft etc for the next few days but I believe my set up has seen some of the traffic for Perth and yesterday evening I am told it saw an aircraft at 168nm
The reason I say all of this because I think all my stuff is working okay. The Pi, dongle etc are now in a cupboard upstairs in my house and not connected to a TV but the Pi is plugged into an ethernet port.
So, the two questions I have that you gurus may be able to answer (please remember that I do not know my arse from my elbow when talking about Raspberry Pis etc and need extremely simple instructions......imagine I am 3 years old, please):
1. Is there a way of seeing if I am actually sending data to FR24? I know I've seen some aircraft but I just don't know if the positions have been fed to FR24.
2. What I would really like to do is install an app on either my MacBook Pro or our home iMac and see the aircraft I'm actually seeing displayed on a sort of radar display. I think this is the sort of thing you see on Dump1090 but, as I have explained, I am absolutely clueless on how I might go about installing that. Hopefully it'll be possible without me having to take the Pi out of its location etc and it's working and I don't want to muck that up if I can help it.
I do know what the IP address of the Raspberry Pi is and I can get the FR24 screen using the IP address:8754 instruction. I know; I'm over-qualified, right
Thank you for any help and advice you may be able to give me and for taking the time to put in idiot language for me.
Cheers,
Paul
I am extremely new to all this FR24 stuff (actually < 24hrs) and I am pretty clueless as far as Raspberry Pi and related things are concerned. I don't even know what a 'sudo' is, so you have to assume pond life if you are kind enough to answer my question.
I bought a Raspberry Pi 3B+. I loaded NOOBS and then the Raspbian software and actually got the whole thing to work, with it being plugged into my TV via HDMI. I had seen SSH mentioned before I did any of this and, after Googling what SSH was, I enabled it on my Pi. Good so far...ish
Next I followed the instructions on the FR24 website for downloading Pi24 and 'flashing' it to the SD card using Etcher. When I put the card back into the Pi and re-booted the FR24 screen came up but it didn't see my ADSB dongle. I have the Flight Aware Pro plugged into the Raspberry Pi. Somehow (a LOT more luck than judgement) I managed to SSH into my Raspberry Pi and typed the code as instructed on the FR24 page. That worked and I filled in all the necessary data and, long story short, actually managed to get all up and running.
I've been awarded a business account and if I go into the data it shows that I've seen some aircraft and their ranges. The weather here is pretty horrible at the moment (south of Perth in Western Australia) so I'm not going to see and light aircraft etc for the next few days but I believe my set up has seen some of the traffic for Perth and yesterday evening I am told it saw an aircraft at 168nm
The reason I say all of this because I think all my stuff is working okay. The Pi, dongle etc are now in a cupboard upstairs in my house and not connected to a TV but the Pi is plugged into an ethernet port.
So, the two questions I have that you gurus may be able to answer (please remember that I do not know my arse from my elbow when talking about Raspberry Pis etc and need extremely simple instructions......imagine I am 3 years old, please):
1. Is there a way of seeing if I am actually sending data to FR24? I know I've seen some aircraft but I just don't know if the positions have been fed to FR24.
2. What I would really like to do is install an app on either my MacBook Pro or our home iMac and see the aircraft I'm actually seeing displayed on a sort of radar display. I think this is the sort of thing you see on Dump1090 but, as I have explained, I am absolutely clueless on how I might go about installing that. Hopefully it'll be possible without me having to take the Pi out of its location etc and it's working and I don't want to muck that up if I can help it.
I do know what the IP address of the Raspberry Pi is and I can get the FR24 screen using the IP address:8754 instruction. I know; I'm over-qualified, right
Thank you for any help and advice you may be able to give me and for taking the time to put in idiot language for me.
Cheers,
Paul
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