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Title: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: rx100 on February 06, 2023, 09:23:34 PM: https://www.radarbox.com/stations/EXTRPI003427

Hi, I've been feeding RB over port 30005 for a couple of weeks now. All seems to be working fine, except that every now and then, RB loses the data feed. I also have FR24 and ADSBX on the same stream and they work 100% of the time. Also, MLAT is not working although it is active in the settings... is there anything I should change in rbfeed.ini and why is RB losing its data feed randomly ? thanks

this is the contents of rbfeed.ini

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[client] network_mode=true log_file=/var/log/rbfeeder.log key=xxxxx sn=EXTRPI003427 lat=46.xxx lon=6.xxx alt=458 [network] mode=beast external_port=30005 external_host=192.168.x.xx [mlat] autostart_mlat=true mlat_cmd=/usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/mlat-client [dump978] #dump978_enabled=true
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: Runway 31 on February 06, 2023, 09:42:27 PM: You shouldnt show your sharing key

Re MLAT are you on Buster or Bullseye

Maybe support can assist with your query regading loosing the data feed

Alan
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: rx100 on February 07, 2023, 07:32:00 AM: thanks for your hint regarding the key ಠ_ಠ !!

I'm on bullseye.. I was hoping that by now there would be a fix other than downgrading. Maybe the occasional data loss is also related to the OS version.

Greetings
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: Runway 31 on February 07, 2023, 09:20:13 AM: I posted details of a new MLAT client in early December, re-produced below, have a look and install it

Please note that I have been advised as follows that a new MLAT client is available which should fix the previous issue

Package mlat-client is updated in our repository using the latest published version from mutability (0.2.11), but ours is "1:0.2.13" just because we need to change version number to 'force' apt-get to understand that is a new version (the code is the same).
Should work for every new installation by now.

Note that the packages are updated only for the latest (current) version of raspbian OS (AKA Bullseye), not for older versions (buster). If we have A LOT of users running older OS's, we can create a package for that.....but my recommendation is to update the operating system.

Alan
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: rx100 on February 08, 2023, 11:36:19 AM: Sorry if this is a stupid question but if I do a

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sudo apt-get install mlat-client -y
a new version of the RB mlat-client will be installed and it won't interfere with the other stuff running on the Pi (see screenshot of other processes running on it) ?

thanks..
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: Runway 31 on February 08, 2023, 02:19:37 PM: Now thats a question I cant answer as I have no knowledge of Linux

Otherwise wait till someone with Linux knowledge comes around or maybe ask support

Alan
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: abcd567 on February 13, 2023, 08:57:49 PM: Quote from: rx100 on February 08, 2023, 11:36:19 AM
Sorry if this is a stupid question but if I do a

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sudo apt-get install mlat-client -y
a new version of the RB mlat-client will be installed and it won't interfere with the other stuff running on the Pi (see screenshot of other processes running on it) ?

thanks..

(1) Yes, above command will install new version of mlat client if you run following command BEFORE running the install command

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sudo apt-get update
(2) No, installing new version of mlat-claient wont affect any other process currentlt running on Pi.

(3) Noted that you are using beast-splitter. Is your receiver Jetvision's Mode S Beast?
Title: Re: Feeding RB from Flightaware box
Post by: rx100 on March 16, 2023, 08:31:18 PM: hi, sorry for the late reply. No, its a Flightaware Flight Feeder box. Port 30005 feeds raw/unparsed messages in Beast binary format.