I’ve been running a PiAware installation for the last couple of months but after a reinstall I notice some problems specifically with dump1090 provided by the PiAware installation instructions. After searching on various forums I decided to give dump1090-mutability a fork of dump1090 a try and can report great success which is why I decided to list the steps needed to configure dump1090-mutability in a Raspbian install.
Current set-up: Raspbian Jessie Lite on a Raspberry Pi 2 + RTL2832U.
Prepare Raspbian
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Dump1090 Mutability Install
Download the necessary .deb from GitHub.
wget https://github.com/mutability/mutability-repo/releases/download/v0.1.0/mutability-repo_0.1.0_armhf.deb
Install the downloaded .deb. Notice the version number.
sudo dpkg -i mutability-repo_0.1.0_armhf.deb
Once again update the installation.
sudo apt-get update
The GPG key provided with mutability-repo_0.1.0_armhf.deb expired which will result in an error every time you run apt-get we can fix the source for the error.
W: GPG error: http://repo.mutability.co.uk wheezy InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1451307476 KEYEXPIRED 1451307476 KEYEXPIRED 1451307476
Now re-install mutability-repo this will pull the latest version with a valid signature.
sudo apt-get install mutability-repo
Install dump1090-mutability the version from the repository at the time of this writing was dump1090-mutability v1.14.
sudo apt-get install dump1090-mutability
Install the web server.
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
Enable module.
sudo lighty-enable-mod dump1090
Reload web server for changes to take effect.
sudo service lighttpd force-reload
Or you can reboot the entire installation which is why I recommend.
sudo reboot
On a web browser and enter the IP address for your Raspberry Pi followed by /dump1090.
http://your_ip_address/dump1090/
PiAware Install
For the latest version of PiAware check the FlightAware page. At the time of this writing the current version was piaware_2.1-5.
wget http://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/piaware_2.1-5_armhf.deb
Install the downloaded package.
sudo dpkg -i piaware_2.1-5_armhf.deb
You will receive multiple errors regarding missing dependencies let apt-get install the missing dependencies.
sudo apt-get install -fy
Auto-update the PiAware Software.
sudo piaware-config -autoUpdate 1 -manualUpdate 1
Connect To FlightAware
Connect the PiAware install to flightAware by providing user credentials.
sudo piaware-config -user your_username -password
Restart PiAware.
sudo /etc/init.d/piaware restart
View the status of the install.
lventura@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo piaware-status
dump1090 is not running.
faup1090 is running.
piaware is running.
dump1090-mutabi is listening for connections on port 30005.
faup1090 is connected to port 30005.
piaware is connected to FlightAware.
dump1090-mutabi is producing data on port 30005.
The new install should start feeding data back to FlightAware.
