Last update - April 12, 2019:
It has become very common that users want to install multiple feeders to feed multiple sites like FlightRadar24, Flightaware, Planefinder, Adsbexchange, Radarbox24, etc etc.
Basically feeding to any site requires following software:
(1) An Operating System like Noobs, Raspbian, Ubuntu etc.
(2) A Decoder software like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, ModeSDeco2 etc.
(3) An exclusive data feeder for each site like fr24feed (FlightRadar24), Piaware feeder (Flightaware), PFClient (Planefinder), rbfeeder (RadarBox24) etc. The data feeder of a Flightaware & Adsbexchange (which provides feedback of MLAT results) also install their MLAT Clients.
Various Options to Install Software
OPTION (A): Pi24 image from Flightradar24.com
OPTION (B): Raspbian image from Raspberrypi.org + dump1090-mutability ver 1.15~dev
OPTION (C): Raspbian image from Raspberrypi.org + dump1090-fa
OPTION (D): Piaware image from Flightaware.com
FR24 FEEDER CONFIGURATION
OPTION-1:
If NO external decoder (like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, or ModeSDeco2 etc) is installed,
and you want to use dump1090-mutability v1.14 provided by Pi24, then:
FR24 settings - Integral dump1090.png
OPTION-2:
If an external decoder (like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, or ModeSDeco2) is installed, then select:
"Receiver: ModeS Beast (TCP)" and "HOST/IP: 127.0.0.1:30005"
OR
"Receiver: AVR(TCP)" and "HOST/IP: 127.0.0.1:30002".
See screenshot below.
fr24feed setting BEAST-TCP using dump1090-fa or dump1090-mut v1.15.png . fr24feed setting AVR-TCP using dump1090-fa or dump1090-mut v1.15.png
BLOCK DIAGRAMS
FR24 Block Diagram - Receiver DVBT-2.png . FR24 Block Diagram - Receiver AVR or Beast-2.png
It has become very common that users want to install multiple feeders to feed multiple sites like FlightRadar24, Flightaware, Planefinder, Adsbexchange, Radarbox24, etc etc.
Basically feeding to any site requires following software:
(1) An Operating System like Noobs, Raspbian, Ubuntu etc.
(2) A Decoder software like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, ModeSDeco2 etc.
(3) An exclusive data feeder for each site like fr24feed (FlightRadar24), Piaware feeder (Flightaware), PFClient (Planefinder), rbfeeder (RadarBox24) etc. The data feeder of a Flightaware & Adsbexchange (which provides feedback of MLAT results) also install their MLAT Clients.
Various Options to Install Software
OPTION (A): Pi24 image from Flightradar24.com
- Burn microSD card with Pi24 image. This image contains: Raspbian Lite OS + dump1090-mutability v1.14 + fr24 data feeder.
- Slip out microSD card from card reader, slip into RPi and powerup.
- Signup by command sudo fr24feed --signup.
- Configure FR24 Feeder as shown below
- Install feeders from respective sites:
Flightaware (Install piaware data feeder only. Do not install dump1090-fa)
Planefinder
Radarbox24
NOTE: The Pi24 image sometimes mounts as "read-only file system". As a result installation of other feeders fails and gives erro messages. In this case first change read-only file system to read & write system by following command, then try again to install other feeders.
Code:sudo mount -o remount,rw /
OPTION (B): Raspbian image from Raspberrypi.org + dump1090-mutability ver 1.15~dev
- Burn microSD card with Raspbian Lite image. This image contains only Operating system.
- Enable SSH: While the microSD card is still in the card reader of your Laptop/Desktop, in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) click on drive letter of the microSD card (labelled boot) to open it. It will open folder /boot which has many files & few folders. In the folder /boot, create a new text file and name it ssh.
- Slip out microSD card from card reader, slip into RPi and powerup.
- Install dump1090-mutability
- Install feeders from respective sites:
Flightradar24
Flightaware (Install piaware date feeder only. Do not install dump1090-fa)
Planefinder
Radarbox24
OPTION (C): Raspbian image from Raspberrypi.org + dump1090-fa
- Burn microSD card with Raspbian Lite image. This image contains only Operating system.
- Enable SSH: While the microSD card is still in the card reader of your Laptop/Desktop, in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) click on drive letter of the microSD card (labelled boot) to open it. It will open folder /boot which has many files & few folders. In the folder /boot, create a new text file and name it ssh.
- Slip out microSD card from card reader, slip into RPi and powerup.
- Install dump1090-fa
- Install feeders from respective sites:
Flightradar24
Flightaware
Planefinder
Radarbox24
OPTION (D): Piaware image from Flightaware.com
- Burn microSD card with Piaware SD card image. This image contains: Raspbian Lite OS + dump1090-fa + Piaware data feeder.
- Enable SSH: While the microSD card is still in the card reader of your Laptop/Desktop, in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) click on drive letter of the microSD card (labelled boot) to open it. It will open folder /boot which has many files & few folders. In the folder /boot, create a new text file and name it ssh.
- Slip out microSD card from card reader, slip into RPi and powerup.
- Install feeders from respective sites:
Flightradar24
Planefinder
Radarbox24
FR24 FEEDER CONFIGURATION
OPTION-1:
If NO external decoder (like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, or ModeSDeco2 etc) is installed,
and you want to use dump1090-mutability v1.14 provided by Pi24, then:
- Select "Receiver: DVB-T". See screenshot below.
- Set "Process Arguments: --net --lat xx.xxxx --lon yy.yyyy".
- To see map, in your Browser type address http://<IP of Pi>/dump1090/gmap.html
- If Flightaware feeder Piaware is also installed, you will need to enable MLAT input to port 30104. To do this, set "Process Arguments: --net --net-bi-port 30104 --lat xx.xxxx --lon yy.yyyy"
- To change gain of Receiver (DVB-T) from default "max" (=49.6), add --gain to process arguments like this: "Process Arguments: --net --net-bi-port 30104 --lat xx.xxxx --lon yy.yyyy --gain zz" , where zz is the gain value you want to set.
FR24 settings - Integral dump1090.png
OPTION-2:
If an external decoder (like dump1090 MR, dump1090-mutability, dump1090-fa, or ModeSDeco2) is installed, then select:
"Receiver: ModeS Beast (TCP)" and "HOST/IP: 127.0.0.1:30005"
OR
"Receiver: AVR(TCP)" and "HOST/IP: 127.0.0.1:30002".
See screenshot below.
fr24feed setting BEAST-TCP using dump1090-fa or dump1090-mut v1.15.png . fr24feed setting AVR-TCP using dump1090-fa or dump1090-mut v1.15.png
BLOCK DIAGRAMS
FR24 Block Diagram - Receiver DVBT-2.png . FR24 Block Diagram - Receiver AVR or Beast-2.png
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