Guide: How to setup a community ADSB Feeder Receiver - adsb-related-code/how-to-setup-community-adsb-feeder GitHub Wiki

• Most feeds will work on any architecture
• FA / FR24 feed will only run on a Raspberry Pi (there are workarounds, but this guide does not cover that)
• If you're not using Raspberry Pi OS but have installed Debian / Ubuntu, start with point 2 to install the decoder
• If you don't have the required hardware yet have a look at this shopping list: https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-wiki/wiki/adsb-receiver-shopping-list
• Join our Discord community if you have any questions: https://discord.gg/jfVRF2XRwF

NOTICE: If you already have a flight feeder setup that outputs BEAST data, you can add the airplanms.live feed software to your setup using the instructions below.

Client Installer link

This guide also works with other Raspberry Pi OS images. There is no need to install a Desktop GUI.

Guide with photos

Use the Raspberry Pi Imager to install Raspberry Pi OS Lite to the SD card:

• https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#using-raspberry-pi-imager
• Place the SD card in your SD card reader (use MicroSD to SD Card adapter if needed)
• Run the Imager software
• Select Raspberry Pi OS Lite under "Raspberry Pi OS (Other)"
• Click the gear icon
• Enable SSH access to manage your Pi over network
• Add an user account and password
• Configure Wi-Fi if you want to use that
• Click save and choose your SD card as the storage
• Start the write process

Once the SD card is ready, get the Pi up and running:

• Place the SD card in the Pi, power up the system and wait few minutes for it to start up

• Find the IP address of the Pi

LINK: Raspbian Guide for Pi IP

Example using ping output with mDNS from any PC connected to the same local network:

ping raspberrypi.local

PING raspberrypi.local (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pi.hole (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.091 ms
64 bytes from pi.hole (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms`

• Connect using an SSH client and log in with the credentials configured above, see the following links depending on your operating system:
• https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/remote-access.html#secure-shell-from-windows-10
• https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/remote-access.html#secure-shell-from-linux-or-mac-os

All logs you need should be available via journalctl and are stored in memory / lost on reboot. To reduce disk writes to the SD card, it is advisable to remove rsyslog as it is not really needed:

sudo apt remove rsyslog -y

• The imaging part, booting the system and connecting via SSH depends on the system
• Feeding sites besides airplanes.live using a laptop is more complicated and is not described here
• graphs1090 and most other feeder utilities should work on all Debian based Linux systems (for example Ubuntu)
• The scripts for installing readsb and feeding airplanes.live should work on CentOS as well

• Script installation: https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-scripts/wiki/Automatic-installation-for-readsb
• Building from source: https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-wiki/wiki/Building-readsb-from-source

Try a reboot if it's not working. There can be permission issues with the SDR when librtlsdr is installed for the first time.

• To ensure the local map and graphs have all functions, it is important to set the location as described in the decoder you are using
• After the script installation of readsb you can use:

sudo readsb-set-location 50.12344 10.23429

• If you need to enable the bias tee on RTL-SDR v3
• https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-wiki/wiki/RTL%E2%80%90SDR-Bias-Tee

• Run airspy-conf after installing the decoder of your choice
• https://github.com/adsbfi/airspy-conf#airspy-conf

• Requires decoder like readsb or dump1090-fa
• Automatically installed with the readsb install script linked above

https://github.com/adsbfi/tar1090#tar1090

• https://adsb.fi
• https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-fi-scripts

You should start seeing MLAT results on your local tar1090 if there are aircraft without ADS-B in your area and the coverage is sufficient.

If you don't want to optimize gain manually, install this and it will slowly get to the right setting

https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-scripts/wiki/Automatic-gain-optimization-for-readsb-and-dump1090-fa

For a dual 1090 / 978 system

https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-wiki/wiki/Dual-1090-978-setup

https://github.com/adsbfi/graphs1090#graphs1090

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dpkg --print-architecture | grep -qs -e armhf && URL="https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/f/flightaware-apt-repository/flightaware-apt-repository_1.1_all.deb"
wget -O /tmp/piaware-repo.deb "$URL"
sudo apt purge -y piaware-repository &>/dev/null
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/piaware-*.list
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/piaware-repo.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y piaware

sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-scripts/raw/master/fr24-nopackage.sh)"

sudo fr24feed --signup; sudo systemctl restart fr24feed

Would you like to use autoconfig $:
no

Step 1.3 - Would you like to participate in MLAT calculations? (yes/no)$:
no

Step 4.1 - Receiver selection:
Enter your receiver type (1-7)$:
4 ModeS Beast (USB/Network)

Step 4.2 - Please select connection type:
Enter your connection type (1-2)$:
1 (Network)

Step 4.3A - Please enter your receiver's IP address/hostname (127.0.0.1 is correct for everyone, means same computer)
127.0.0.1

Step 4.3B - Please enter your receiver's data port number
30005

Step 5.1 - Would you like to enable RAW data feed on port 30334 (yes/no)$:
no

Step 5.2 - Would you like to enable Basestation data feed on port 30003 (yes/no)$:
no

Step 6 - Please select desired logfile mode:
0

sudo fr24feed-status
sudo journalctl -u fr24feed --no-pager

sudo systemctl disable --now fr24feed

echo 'server.modules += ("mod_alias")' | sudo tee /etc/lighttpd/external.conf
sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/08-disable-ipv6.conf <<EOF
# disable IPv6
#
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
EOF
sudo reboot