Best choice for an ADSB receiver on a remote location

[MerNion]

Hello,

I was thinking on installing an ADSB receiver in one family house which is very high on a mountain but it is not always attended.. So I would like an option to be as remote controlled as possible.. Maybe a mini-pc with a receiver...? Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Anmer]

It depends what "attention" is available?

Power outages, router reboots, ISP failures. physical antenna/cable damage can make the receiver/data processing unusable.

[MerNion]

There will be someone to do a reset by switching off and on the power..
I will be visiting once every 2-3 months so if there is a physical damage to the antenna cable or antenna I will fix it then.. but on my sbs that is running at home for more than 10 years i never had a problem with the antenna or cable etc.. So i most worry for the architecture of the system more, like if it is better to use a small minipc or another embeded solution etc..
In order to not use long antenna cable and have signal loss I wouls rather put the receiver or the minipc or whatever as close as possible to the place where the antenna will be, so I am thinking of a waterproof electrical box outside next to the antenna with just a power, ethernet and antenna cable coming out.

Has anything like that been done before so it might be another forum thread, blog or something to check it out..?

Thanks

[Anmer]

I know of many instances of people putting an RPi/SDR receiver combination in a weatherproof box externally.  Some use PoE to provide power.

This can be a low cost setup compared to an SBS or other specialist Mode-S receiver and a PC.

You can use SSH to access the RPi remotely.

The only downside I've exoerienced is some of my RPi/SDR sets do not always reconnect to the local network if there's been a power outage.  A power reboot fixes it.  But sometimes my SBS has the same problem.

[MerNion]

A power reboot is not a problem because I can either have the power on a remote controlled power outlet or ask someone to go and do a reset on the power..

I only had SBSs in the past, I don't know anything about he RPi or other SDRs so I will read on those.. Do you know if the Raspberry Pi supports feeding data to Flightradar24, Radarbox24, adsbexchange etc?

[Anmer]

Do you know if the Raspberry Pi supports feeding data to Flightradar24, Radarbox24, adsbexchange etc?

Yes.

[MerNion]

Thanks! I read about it now on some other posts.. I will try with a rpi for start and we will see from there..

[Anmer]

Don't forget you'll also needa DVB-T/SDR receiver such as a Pro Stick, and an antenna:

https://flightaware.com/adsb/prostick/

https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build

[MerNion]

Yes I found a tutorial on building one.. Plus power adapter, plus ethernet cable etc... Thanks!