Virtual Radar Server Raspberry Pi 3 stand-alone img

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Left it snooping for a couple of hours using an LNA4ALL into the 1090 antenna, nothing locked. Not surprising I suppose.

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Llew said:
Left it snooping for a couple of hours using an LNA4ALL into the 1090 antenna, nothing locked. Not surprising I suppose.

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I have just got an aerial plugged in to my 978 dongle.

I also found the psu to the pre amp for 1090 was under running it.

Hopefully things will pick up over the week.
 
I managed to use a download manager

What worked for me was:

  1. Open Browser in Private/incognito mode
  2. Open the download url for example it is https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B08CMVb2YK_EMkUyRmc4a0NtazQ&export=download
  3. File size is larger so it will show you warning just click Download anyway the file will start downloading.
  4. Make sure download starts in your browser (I used Firefox 51).
  5. Go to downloads (Ctrl + J) copy the link and don't stop the download yet!
  6. Paste the link in your download manager, (I used FDM)
  7. Soon as download begins in your manager feel free to stop the download in the browser.
  8. If the download stops for some reason, just go through the above steps again, and replace the old download link with the new one in your download manager and resume!

Secondary: Tinker Board is not booting ........
 
EmilK said:
I managed to use a download manager

What worked for me was:

  1. Open Browser in Private/incognito mode
  2. Open the download url for example it is https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B08CMVb2YK_EMkUyRmc4a0NtazQ&export=download
  3. File size is larger so it will show you warning just click Download anyway the file will start downloading.
  4. Make sure download starts in your browser (I used Firefox 51).
  5. Go to downloads (Ctrl + J) copy the link and don't stop the download yet!
  6. Paste the link in your download manager, (I used FDM)
  7. Soon as download begins in your manager feel free to stop the download in the browser.
  8. If the download stops for some reason, just go through the above steps again, and replace the old download link with the new one in your download manager and resume!

Secondary: Tinker Board is not booting ........
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Forgive my ignorance, will a raspberry pi img work on an asus tinker board?
 
Theoretically should but is not booting....
Anyway I installed the Tinker OK, VRS server, the Webadmin package but is not starting......
Im out of ideas right now
 
EmilK said:
Theoretically should but is not booting....
Anyway I installed the Tinker OK, VRS server, the Webadmin package but is not starting......
Im out of ideas right now
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For the pi you also need to install a config file.

wget http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/Files/VirtualRadar.exe.config.tar.gz

Then run this first time to set up a user

mono bin/VirtualRadar.exe -nogui -createadmin:admin -password:<your password here>

For second and subsequent runs do

mono bin/VirtualRadar.exe -nogui

Or as I did create a script to auto start at boot using mono bin/VirtualRadar.exe -nogui
 
OK thanks Chris for the information , I missed also that part with the config file.
 
Up and running :-) thanks Chris
 
Any idea how to keep it running after closing the ssh session? The "&" option is not working in my case
 
And to make it even worse the 8080 port is "dead" where is the config file or better formulated how can I reconfigure VRS?
Dont answer now, take your time, today is "game over" for me and thanks again for your help
 
Create a file for your startup script and write your script in the file: sudo nano /etc/init.d/VRS.sh

Paste this into VRS.sh

mono bin/VirtualRadar.exe -nogui &

Save ctrl x and yes.

Make the script executable:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/VRS.sh

Register script to be run at startup:

sudo update-rc.d VRS.sh defaults
 
EmilK said:
Any idea how to keep it running after closing the ssh session? The "&" option is not working in my case
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Have you tried:
> nohup mono bin/VirtualRadar.exe -nogui &
> exit
This will leave the process running even if it gets hang-up signal from spawning process (the shell).
(don't have a PI running VR this myself, so apologies for if this does not apply to your system)
This will have to be entered each re-boot, so Chris' solution is neater, by the way.
 
EmilK said:
And to make it even worse the 8080 port is "dead" where is the config file or better formulated how can I reconfigure VRS?
Dont answer now, take your time, today is "game over" for me and thanks again for your help
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The config file should be in the VRS fold you created when installing the program, I don’t know what or where you saved it to.

If you are using the img I made you would have avoided all this configuration, that’s what took me a few days to get just right.

The config file is located in a folder called rm in the pi img I made.

You can change port 8080 so I am told, as the main problem is dump 1090 and VRS in mono wants the same port numbers.
 
Maybe good to have it written:
in my case (Tinker Board) the config.xml file location is
"/home/linaro/.local/share/VirtualRadar/Configuration.xml"
 
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