Hi All
This is probably directed at Keith really, but if I post it here then the community can also help
I have been chatting to Philip Lee at 360Radar, he runs a community (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/701885719892641/) that has 400+ ADSB receivers, mainly on Pi's, spread across the UK (
https://mlat-server.co.uk/coverage/), mainly with the aim of filling in the Military gaps left by FlightRadar24 etc.
His users broadly follow the install instructions here (
https://radar.lowflyingwales.co.uk/), which takes a vanilla Raspbian image, adds the SDR setup and then adds the MLAT client setup.
It should (famous last words) be relatively easy to get some of his users to follow the OGN installation instructions here (
http://wiki.glidernet.org/wiki:raspberry-pi-installation), followed by the PilotAware installation instructions here (
http://pilotaware.lode.co.uk/downloads/OGN/README.upgrade) to add both OGN and PilotAware functionality to their devices.
The only addition to those instructions would be due to having two SDR dongles you need to tell the two RTLSDR programs to use the different dongles. Info for example here (
http://wiki.glidernet.org/multiple-receivers-configuration-on-raspi).
I can confirm that having OGN, PilotAware & ADSB, uploading to OGN, FR24 and 360Radar does indeed work, and I have been running like that for a couple of weeks (although only 1 decent antenna for P3I and Flarm at the moment, so I get good reception of one or the other, but not both, will be solved soon).
Philip is happy for us to talk to him more, but is cautious - if we break things he will get the support workload
Maybe the starting point is a post on the 360 group (with Phil's permission) asking if a few more technical users would be happy to work through it with us?
Obviously cost wise for the users it is a Bridge, a Dongle for OGN, a PilotAware Antenna and a Flarm Antenna.
(BTW, I have shown that the PilotAware antenna, the rubber duck, 10cm above the ridge line of the house gives darn good reception on Flarm without using the 9db Flarm antenna -
http://flarmrange.onglide.com/?#EGBKE,max,d30,52.3227_-0.7062,9,#00990000:#009900ff,
I'm not sure what deal Keith is doing on Bridges and a couple of antennas
Anyway, enough rambling, thoughts? Gotchas?
Cheers
Kev