Monday, May 01, 2017

[howTo] Improve piaware results

I noticed I've got drastically better results with piaware ( Raspberry Pi + Flight Aware ADS-B ) by enabling SSH, and upgrading the underlying raspbian packages.

Enable ssh on raspbian:

  • Mount the micro-sd on another computer. 
  • Create an empty file called "ssh" 
  • Boot the Pi
  • sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Alternatively you can go through flightware and issue an "Upgrade all installed Debian Packages" command. 

My results went from: 18k reports to 50k reports (Fri vs Fri comparison). With no change to antenna placement or hardware. 


Dramatic difference. Pretty obvious when the change was made. 


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