Stats here – click on top users: Yeri (#13 atm).

Due to interference (GSM? WiFi (very very unlikely)? High voltage power lines?) we moved it to the side, as seen below.

While it is blind from half a side, it can see all the way up to London and beyond.

This is the result:

As comparison, this is T-EBBR43 (Not placed as high, at my parents’ house):

Merged data from EBBR43, EBBR44 and EBBR55:

The updated cookbooks are on Github.

Changes (commits):

• Better key management
• fr24feed.ini
• No more separate dump1090 launch
• newest fr24 version

While I run it on EfikaMX, it should work on most Debian based devices. Just be sure to modify the FR24 software download URL.

This Ansible playbook is untested on its own. It comes out of a way bigger (private) Ansible playbook, and I kind of just copy pasted this part, as others might benefit from it.

After running Ansible, you should reboot for driver blacklisting to work in cases it’s needed on your device (it is on RPis). And be sure to edit /root/flightradar24.sh with your key.

Be sure to have the right hardware: flightradar24.com/dvbt-stick and … obviously … a RPi.

I got a NooElec from Amazon because I didn’t have the patience to wait for something (that might not work) from AliExpress.

As root:

apt-get update && apt-get install cmake gcc pkg-config libusb-1.0 make git-core libc-dev git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git cd rtl-sdr mkdir build cd build cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON make && make install ldconfig cd ../..

And be sure to Blacklist the normal driver:

echo “blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu” > /etc/modprobe.d/dvb-t.conf

And at this point you should reboot.

As regular user (screen part is no longer needed as the new FR24 program will automatically launch and execute it for you):

git clone https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090.git cd dump1090 make ln -s dump1090 /bin/ screen -dmS dump ./dump1090 –interactive –net –net-beast –net-ro-port 31001 –net-http-port 8888 cd ..

Now get the FR24 software. In case you get a 404, get the latest version here new Raspberry Pi version is here, Linux (AMD64 & ARMv7) is here. You can get your long & lat here. Follow the updated howto on the page. The underlying code is no longer relevant.

wget https://web.archive.org/web/20141002002531/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66906/fr24feed_arm-rpi_242.tgz tar xvzf fr24feed* ./fr24feed_arm-rpi_242 –signup

I’ll ask a couple of questions (answer them correctly):

Step 1/5 - Enter Latitude (DD.DDDD) $:50.927358 Step 2/5 - Enter Longitude (DD.DDDD) $:4.399928 Step 3/5 - Enter your email address (username@domain.tld) $:yeri@tiete.be Step 4/5 - Enter your the hostname of the data feed (leave empty for localhost) $: Step 5/5 - Enter your the port number of the data feed (leave empty for 30003) $:

[…].

It will give you a key (and e-mail it to you) after a couple of minutes. Keep this key, as it’s important.

That’s it. As dump1090 is already running, all you have to do is start flightradar and you’re good to go.

This is the script I use to start it all (in screen, allowing me to check it). As normal user:

nano -w flightradar.sh

And copy paste the following (+ edit the variables):

#!/bin/bash KEY=YOUR-KEY-EDIT-THIS DIR=/home/PATH-TO-YOU-SCRIPT

screen -dmS flightradar24 ./fr24feed_arm-rpi_242 –fr24key=$KEY

And run: chmod +x flightradar.sh

To start the script, simply run ./flightradar.sh, and check what’s happening with screen -r dump or screen -r flightradar.

To auto start this script at boot time, I edit rc.local as root:

nano -w /etc/rc.local

And add the following at the end but BEFORE exit 0:

su yeri -c /home/yeri/flightradar.sh

Obviously, modify the path and the user it should run under (in this case as “yeri”).

PS: Be sure to signup again every time you move your Raspberry around (the coords seem to be hardcoded in the key). PPS: You can get Premium access here now: flightradar24.com/premium (and check fancy graphs about your “radar”).