Deactivation of Windows feeds (FR24)

[Triple7]

Hi Mike,

Correct - 2 sites, one 3 greens (the new one) one 3 reds (the old one)

Feeder type = PiAware (Debian Package Add-on) 3.7.1

Tim

[Anmer]

Thanks Tim.

I think there's a txt file on the SD card that one can edit to set the feeder UUID.  But I'm not sure hwere it is on the SD card.

I've emailed FA Support with a link to this post, hoping someone will respond to your messages.  Can't get the staff these days. 

[Triple7]

Hi Mike,

You are right and that was the file I was trying to edit but I got the error about "permission denied"

IanH gave this command:

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/var/cache/piaware/feeder_id So I have the old feeder ID

However, trying:

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nano /var/cache/piaware/feeder_id and then changing the code to the new one, also resulted in a permission denied (or something similar) error when I tried to save the amended file.

Tim

[IanH]

You need to be root user to edit the file.

So put sudo in front of the command. See
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/root.md

If you are using a real RasPi, there is now an image you can download and write to the SD card.

I'm not using a real RasPi (OrangePi) so I need to compile/build from source which is what the script does. The script does need modifying occasionally to keep up to date with changes so probably only recommended if you are comfortable with the Linux command line (and possibly figuring out what changes are needed if no one has figured it out already!!).

[Triple7]

Thanks Ian,

I fiddled about yesterday evening and broke it! I think the SD card has failed so I am getting a new one and will try again. I'm thinking about starting with the PiAware image and then adding in the FR24 feed afterwards when I have resolved the issues I had with the feeder id and not seeing an output on ports 8080 or 8088.

FlightAware support did come back to me (thanks Mike for prompting them) but they suggested I look at this link:

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-piaware-feeders-are-identified-updated-2017-07-16/19811

But that didn't really help as it's basically the same Info I already had. No comment on not seeing my own plots on port 8080

Tim

[Anmer]

Hi Tim

Who at FA replied to you?  Was it Matt?

[Triple7]

Mike, it was Jessica

Tim

[Triple7]

Update from me:

New Micro SD card arrived, I decided to "do it myself" rather than use someone else's scripts. I went through the easy PiAware procedure and used the feeder id key from my previous site - that all worked, so I think it was just a permissions thing as IanH said - I missed the sudo bit!

Then followed the very simple FR24 instructions to add that feed and used my existing FR24 key.

Then added MSM2 and that worked but with the error message about google maps - so I added my Google key and that stopped MSM2 displaying anything, just a message saying "something went wrong - check the Java console" I don't know where this Java console is, so couldn't check it. I removed my key and MSM2 displays but with a darkened map - I can live with that unless anyone knows how to find and fix the Java console.

Thanks for all the suggestions

Tim