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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Database Update Requests
« Last post by CarlosAbreu on Today at 01:05:22 AM »
Alan

10-03-2026 Updated file in attach.

Carlos
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Database Update Requests
« Last post by Runway 31 on March 10, 2026, 09:07:20 PM »
Thanks Carlos

Alan
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Logos
« Last post by RodBearden on March 10, 2026, 03:43:47 PM »
Four new ones:

LTX - Aerolytix International (San Marino)
MAF - Mister Air Transport (Romania)
SQB - South Air (PVT) Ltd (Pakistan)
WSK - Western Sky Australia Ltd   
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Install rbfeeder arm64 on Ubuntu / Debian AMD64 PC with QEMU Support
« Last post by abcd567 on March 10, 2026, 10:46:04 AM »
(C) EXPLANATION:
QEMU (Quick Emulator) is a fast machine emulator, and can be run in following modes:
  • User Mode Emulation: Runs programs compiled for one CPU architecture (e.g., RPi's rbfeeder arm64 or armhf) on another (e.g., Linux amd64 x64 machine)
  • System Emulation: Emulates a complete machine, including a CPU, memory, and peripherals.
  • Virtualization (KVM/Xen): When paired with a hypervisor like KVM, QEMU enables near-native performance by running the guest code directly on the host CPU.
The "User Mode Emulation" is simplest and lightweight and does not make any changes to the Linux PC except installing 3 qemu-user support packages from apt repository of Linux OS (e.g. Ubuntu / Debian)

I have prepared two scripts, one for Debian amd64 PC, other for Ubuntu amd64 PC, which use the simpler and lightweight "User Mode Emulution".

These scrips automate the entire process of installation, and can be run by bash command.

These scripts do following:

  • Installs QEMU support (simply by installing packages qemu-user, qemu-user-binfmt, and binfmt-support)
  • Adds architecture ARM64 to system
  • Ubuntu only: adds apt sources.list “ubuntu-ports-arm64.sources” for arm64 (debian does not require user to add separate sources list for arm64)
  • Installs necessary ARM64 library (libc6:arm64)
  • Adds rb24 repository by adding /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rb24.list and /etc/apt/keyrings/rb24.gpg
  • Installs rbfeeder:arm64 using command sudo apt install rbfeeder. The QEMU emulates arm64 / aarch64 environment.
  • Installs mlat-client.

The QEMU install is NOT a Docker install.

Installation and use of any app using QEMU is simple. It uses same commands as normal install on RPi. The user is not required to learn anything new. On the other hand DOCKER has its own syntax and commands, and users are required to learn how to use it, and it is confusing and painful for those who have not used Docker before..

Installation of rbfeeder package on amd64 computer with QEMU support has a big advantage that it does NOT require / use spoofing of any kind (such as spoofing cpu serial, spoofing mac address) to get a Valid Sharing Key.
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Database Update Requests
« Last post by CarlosAbreu on March 10, 2026, 01:43:05 AM »
Alan

09-03-2026 Updated file in attach.

Carlos
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Database Update Requests
« Last post by Runway 31 on March 09, 2026, 06:48:14 PM »
Thanks Carlos

Alan
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Logos
« Last post by RodBearden on March 09, 2026, 03:10:52 PM »
Two new ones:
BSW - Zhong Dong Business Jet Co. (China)
IBD - Lufthansa Aviation Training Switzerland AG

and two replacements:
ATJ - CTR Atmospherica Jets (Czechia) replacing our current logo
DTH - Tassili Airlines (Algeria) have rebranded to Domestic Airlines
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Logos
« Last post by RodBearden on March 09, 2026, 11:48:09 AM »
Thanks Terry - that's gone.
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AirNav Radar Discussion / Install rbfeeder arm64 on Ubuntu / Debian AMD64 PC with QEMU Support
« Last post by abcd567 on March 09, 2026, 09:04:04 AM »
List of Contents
  • (A) INTRODUCTION
  • (B) INSTALLATION SCRIPTS
  • (C) EXPLANATION (Please Scroll Down to Next Post)

(A) INTRODUCTION:
The Radarbox24 feeder on first run sends information to Radarbox Server which identifies the rbfeeder's architecture, computer's MAC address, and the CPU Serial.

The Radarbox24 server sends back the sharing key and station number which is saved in file /etc/rbfeeder.ini

For unknown and unfortunate reason, the key and station number supplied by Radarbox24 Server are INVALID if it is a non-RPi installation (i.e. the installed rbfeeder package does not have architecture arm64). Since Ubuntu and Debian installed on a PC have architecture AMD64, these cannot cannot run rbfeeder for RPi (arm64), and can run rbfeeder only with architecture AMD64, which runs perfectly well, but fails to get a valid Sharing-Key.

This problem is overcome by first installing qemu-user-support packages on Ubuntu / Debian AMD64 PC, after which rbfeeder package for RPi (64-bit  arm64) can be installed and runs successfully on Ubuntu / Debian AMD64 PC. The arm64 RPi package gets a valid Sharing-Key from RB24 server.

Just run the following bash script on your Debian / Ubuntu AMD64 PC, and the rbfeeder:arm64 will be installed, a valid Sharing-Key will be obtained, and rbfeeder will run successfully.


(B) INSTALLATION SCRIPTS:

(B.1) For Debian 12 & 13 (bookworm & trixie)
This script is very long, and it’s right-most part may not be visible directly.
Please scroll right to view and copy it in full
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sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://github.com/abcd567a/temp/raw/main/install-rb24-qemu-debian.sh)" 



(B.2) For Ubuntu 22 & 24 (jammy & noble)
This script is very long, and it’s right-most part may not be visible directly.
Please scroll right to view and copy it in full
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sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://github.com/abcd567a/temp/raw/main/install-rb24-qemu-ubuntu.sh)" 



(B.3) Future Upgrading to Newer Version of rbfeeder
User of Ubuntu and Debian PC can upgrade to any new version released by RB24 by issueing following commands:
Code: [Select]
sudo apt update 

sudo apt upgrade rbfeeder:arm64
 

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AirNav Radar Discussion / Re: Database Update Requests
« Last post by CarlosAbreu on March 09, 2026, 12:11:29 AM »
Alan

08-03-2026 Updated file in attach.

Carlos
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