Where did I goof? Run line in Raspberry Pi crontab

[MK2wx]

Thanks very much evangel,

Once I have a PI3 then I shall look into making it work with some of the ideas you have shown me.

I've got a working set up for now, but it's by no means certain it will stay that way. Running on a PI2 for now.

I did some testing with a friend in the USA and they got all of what MSM2 was putting out except a working map! So clearly there are unknown issues of some kind there. Testing showed that VRS was fine, so that is how I got to where I am now.

Currently I have VRS running from a script (which allows a 20 second sleep to start with while everything else wakes up at boot time) The script itself is fired by crontab at boot. It's all running on the normal and standard PiAware 3.5.0.

The whole thing runs headless, and that's very handy. I'm now looking into auto mount for a USB stick thumb drive, once that is working then I can move the database to that part of the over all storage.

It's working pretty good so far. I'd imagine a regular OS image and dump1090 will make things a little less complicated too. For the future I'd really like to see a 3rd party stats package to the same visual quality of MSM2. That would be a killer app for sure, as FlightAware seem to be drowning in their own success, which leads to slow servers to find out what's been going on. I'm not really into rankings, so I don't need any of that stuff. I'm not that bothered about mlat either.

Oh well, it is what it currently is, and exploring further tweaks should prove fun. 

[Anmer]

as FlightAware seem to be drowning in their own success,

Can you expand on the above?  What are you experiencing?  Have you posted on the FlightAware forum?

By the way, others like to see MLAT plots.

And have you viewed your PiAware stats page?

I'm assuming this is yours?  I did a quick scroll of the UK stats.

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/MK2wx#stats-59174

[MK2wx]

as FlightAware seem to be drowning in their own success,

Can you expand on the above?  What are you experiencing?  Have you posted on the FlightAware forum?

By the way, others like to see MLAT plots.

And have you viewed your PiAware stats page?

I'm assuming this is yours?  I did a quick scroll of the UK stats.

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/MK2wx#stats-59174

Well, each to their own view. Why would you wish to see it expanded upon?

As a matter of fact, yesterday Google Chrome returned it's view that "flight aware" took too long to respond and as such was deemed currently unavailable or some such. I'm sure it's likely to be more expert than either of us on that point.

MLAT is optional you know.

[Anmer]

Why would you wish to see it expanded upon?

I'm just trying to understand what you mean?  In what way do you think FlightAware is "drowning in their own success"?  It would help if we had an example of what you mean.

As a matter of fact, yesterday Google Chrome returned it's view that "flight aware" took too long to respond and as such was deemed currently unavailable or some such. I'm sure it's likely to be more expert than either of us on that point.

Similarly, it would be helpful to know what you were trying to access when Chrome timed out?

No one else has reported a similar experience on the FlightAware forum.  And I don't have any issues here.

[MK2wx]

Oh, right I see, well I went to their web site, might have been main page, or could have been stats and it did not respond all that quickly, to the point where Chrome gave up. I can't be certain which of those two it was of course as it did not arrive. I went off for a coffee and would theehave gone back a bit later probably.

It's not happening all the time, but it does happen from time to time. I take it as saying "we're serving lots just now, and you need to try again."

They have a lot of feeders, and it's reasonable to expect it to be busy at times. Which is what I was alluding to. It was certainly not a critique of any kind, it was in the spirit of noticing it being successful to the point of almost looking or being overwhelmed. I reckon that is a good enough place to be myself, assuming that is what is going on.

Anyway we are a very long way off topic by now.

[Anmer]

Can you post a screen shot and the url next time you see this?

[MK2wx]

Can you post a screen shot and the url next time you see this?

Well, yes, if it happens and I remember; it is sporadic certainly.

What can we do with that info then? 

[Anmer]

What can we do with that info then? 

It depends what you provide.

Maybe you're doing something wrong or  have found an issue that FlightAware can fix.