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wiedehopf edited this page Sep 10, 2020 · 5 revisions

These fr24feed settigs are meant for people who already have dump1090 running / are feeding another site:

fr24feed installation configuration dialogue

  • Receiver: Beast (Network)
  • Host: 127.0.0.1
  • Port: 30005

Checking the configuration file after installation

Open the fr24feed settings:

sudo nano /etc/fr24feed.ini

Change the first 5 lines except for the fr24key to the values shown below:

receiver="beast-tcp"
fr24key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
host="127.0.0.1:30005"
bs="no"
raw="no"

Ctrl-o and enter to save, Ctrl-x to exit

To activate the settings, restart fr24feed:

sudo systemctl restart fr24feed

for people reading this after everything has already stopped working:

If your setup has already stopped working you can try these steps to get it going again:

Or run one of these scripts:

Enabling sensible logging for fr24feed

sudo apt update
sudo apt install perl
sudo wget -O /etc/systemd/system/fr24feed.service https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiedehopf/adsb-scripts/master/fr24feed.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart fr24feed

Log accessible like this:

journalctl -u fr24feed --no-pager
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