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British Forum => OGN-R PilotAware => Topic started by: steveu on October 12, 2019, 08:29:57 pm

Title: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: steveu on October 12, 2019, 08:29:57 pm

I'm wondering if I can use the Pi's output to run 360 Radar. I've got an old monitor plugged into the HDMI with a HDMI->VGA adaptor.

I'm assuming that for this, the X GUI and a browser will need to be loaded, which I'm hoping I can do via apt-get.

I'm wondering about space and processing power.

Is the SD card re-formatted with a restricted partition size on install? I used a very fast 32Gb card which may have been OTT.

I'm guessing I can look at current loads by just running top?

Or is this a bad idea?

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: steveu on December 08, 2019, 04:54:32 pm

You can't without another Pi.

Insufficient resources and no GUI installed.

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: Ian Melville on December 08, 2019, 09:41:42 pm

I set up a spare Pi 2+ with Linux Mint and tried running 360 Radar on it. It didn't have enough grunt and could not keep up with the updates.

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: exfirepro on December 08, 2019, 10:42:00 pm

Hi Ian,

That's a bit disappointing, I had hoped to do that to run the display at the flying club. I might try it with a Pi3 as I have one spare.

Regards

Peter

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: exfirepro on December 10, 2019, 12:18:23 pm

Update,

Works fine with a (separate) Pi3B.

Peter

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: steveu on December 27, 2019, 12:23:39 pm

I'm running a Pi2B in kiosk mode and am unable to get the 360 Radar screen up. I get the header but nothing else.

It's running Raspbian and I'm going to assume that there's also insufficient grunt, so I'm going to swap it out for a Pi3B.

I'm going to be daft and swap the SD cards over and hope...

Will report back.

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: steveu on December 27, 2019, 05:25:57 pm

Reporting back:

I swapped the Pi2B for a Pi3B, plugged everything into the Pi3B except the WiFi dongle as the Pi3B includes WiFi. I moved the SD card across, and booted up.

Bingo, 360 Radar display. Configured the display how I wanted it, then shut down Chrome so it memorised the set up.

On next boot, everything is happy. I have 360 Radar and the METAR screen on a loop, 45 seconds of each.

I'm using Raspian Buster standard version.

Title: Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
Post by: Ian Melville on December 28, 2019, 12:26:39 am

Thanks for reporting back Steve, guess I need to buy some more Pies