Installation
Step 1: Begin by flashing your microSD card with the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS using the Raspberry Pi Imager.
Step 2: Before flashing the SD card, open the advanced options by clicking the gear icon.
Step 3: From the advanced options window, set your device’s hostname and password, enable SSH, configure your wireless LAN, and select your locale settings. Click Save. Choose your storage media and click Write to burn the image to your SD card.
Step 4: Once written to the microSD card, insert it into the Pi. Plug the SDR USB dongle into one of the Pi’s USB ports and power up the Pi.
Step 5: With your Pi booted, connect to the Pi via SSH to install the Adsb.fi software. Note that this can also be done locally on the Pi by connecting a keyboard, mouse, and monitor directly to the Pi and opening a terminal window.
Using a program such as PuTTY or Tera Term, open an SSH connection to your Pi using either the local hostname you set up when configuring the image or the local IP address of the device. In his example, the hostname is raspberrypi.local
For help determining the local ip address of the Pi, please use reference the following guide.
https://all3dp.com/2/find-raspberry-pi-on-network/
Step 6: Once logged into your device, make sure your Pi’s software is up to date by entering the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
Step 7: Allow your Pi to reboot, then reopen the SSH connection or terminal window.
Your site’s latitude, longitude, and elevation will be needed for the next steps. This information must be accurate as it will skew the MLAT calculations if incorrect.
The following site https://www.daftlogic.com/projects-find-elevation-on-map.htm is a good resource for this information. Click on the map and the coordinates and elevation are displayed in the lower box.
Step 9: Enter the following commands in your ssh console or terminal window and answer the prompts to install the READSB Decoder Software
sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-scripts/raw/master/readsb-install.sh)"
sudo reboot
Step 9: Enter the following commands in your ssh console or terminal window and answer the prompts to install Adsb.fi feed software.
curl -L -o /tmp/feed.sh https://adsb.fi/feed.sh
sudo bash /tmp/feed.sh
Step 10: Test that your feeder is sending data to the Adsb.fi community network.
Visit https://adsb.fi from a web browser on the same local network as your new feeder. You should see “You are feeding data” in the lower-left corner of the screen. You can click this link to view your feed status.
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