Icons missing from the map

[irq74]

Hi all,

Been trawling the forums and the web for a while, and I cannot seem to find why the icons for aircraft are missing from the map.  Silhouettes and data all work as expected, but I don't get any icons on screen, just flight data.

Any suggestions?

I have attached a screen grab showing my issue.

Thanks

[gunterb]

Look here:

https://forum.virtualradarserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=1957


It could be a problem with the mono version.

regards
Gunter

[Anmer]

Been trawling the forums and the web for a while, and I cannot seem to find why the icons for aircraft are missing from the map.

Can you describe your setup?  Receiver on what is VRS installed?

[irq74]

I am running on Linux (DragonOS FocalX 30), feeding from a Raspberry Pi3B running Flightaware.  1090MHz vertical in the loft, notch filter and amp installed.

The Pi is running fine and feeding FlightAware, Plane Finder and Radarbox.

Just the icons on the map are missing afaik.

[irq74]

Look here:

https://forum.virtualradarserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=1957


It could be a problem with the mono version.

regards
Gunter

Thanks Gunter, I followed those instructions, however it did not appear to remove mono.

I set the location in  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list as per the text, then removed mono.

after removing it, and prior to installation, i tried a mono -V again - it shows that v6.8.0.105 is installed?

xxxxx@xxxxx:~$ sudo apt remove mono-complete
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'mono-complete' is not installed, so not removed
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
xxxx@xxxxxx:~$ mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 6.8.0.105 (Debian 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.2 Wed Jun 30 05:34:49 UTC 2021)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
   TLS:           __thread
   SIGSEGV:       altstack
   Notifications: epoll
   Architecture:  amd64
   Disabled:      none
   Misc:          softdebug
   Interpreter:   yes
   LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
   Suspend:       hybrid
   GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)
xxx@xxxxx:~$

Re-installation shows the same version  6.8.0.105.

I might just live without them

[rikgale]

Uninstall mono

Then run this script

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bash -c "$(wget -qO - https://github.com/mypiaware/virtual-radar-server-installation/raw/master/virtual_radar_server_install.sh)"

from here https://github.com/mypiaware/virtual-radar-server-installation.  It installs and sets everything up for you (to a basic level)

VRS works everytime for me using this method. Use the latest preview version v3.0.11 (or somthing like that) when you are asked which version you want to install or the icons will still not show up.

[irq74]

Uninstall mono

Then run this script

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bash -c "$(wget -qO - https://github.com/mypiaware/virtual-radar-server-installation/raw/master/virtual_radar_server_install.sh)"

from here https://github.com/mypiaware/virtual-radar-server-installation.  It installs and sets everything up for you (to a basic level)

VRS works everytime for me using this method. Use the latest preview version v3.0.11 (or somthing like that) when you are asked which version you want to install or the icons will still not show up.

Magical.  That worked - thank you so much.  Icons appearing, and no longer need to add mono at the start

If there was a way to give Kudos, I would be mashing the button like crazy 

[rikgale]

Pleased to hear that it worked for you. The missing aircraft markers is a known problem and there is a table at the bottom of the wiki page which details OS and Mono versions and compatibility. I am always grateful to the chappy who made this script as it saves a lot of bother.

Now you can add some custom markers - https://github.com/rikgale/VRSCustomMarkers

and additional layers - https://github.com/rikgale/VRSCustomLayers (the instructions are a bit outdated, but should work)

and a very repleat localaircraft.txt - https://github.com/rikgale/LocalAircraft

All at work here - https://www.cornwallvrs.duckdns.org/vrs/desktop.html

Barefaced self plug now over

[irq74]

Barefaced plug or not, thank you so much,

I will investigate your github later