Home Assistant Add-on: ADS-B Multi-Portal Feeder (Flightradar24 and FlightAware)

when i try this I get no output. I got a waiting cursor in the terminal only.

docker run -it --rm
-e “SERVICE_ENABLE_RADARBOX=true”
-e “SERVICE_ENABLE_DUMP1090=false”
-e “SERVICE_ENABLE_HTTP=false”
-e “SERVICE_ENABLE_PIAWARE=false”
-e “SERVICE_ENABLE_FR24FEED=false”
-e “HTML_SITE_LAT=45”
-e “HTML_SITE_LON=9”
-e “HTML_SITE_ALT=0”
thomx/fr24feed-piaware /bin/bash

I also can’t get the ADSBEXCHANGE_UUID.

Stop feeding the clowns of adsbexchange :wink:

I tried to get the key again and after 2 days it worked now. I got my key. ADSBFI Mlat on / Radarbox Mlat Off. This brought me the key. Radarbox support told me that there seems to be a problem

who can help?

[radarbox-feeder] Traceback (most recent call last):
[radarbox-feeder] File “/usr/local/share/radarbox-mlat-client/venv/bin/mlat-client”, line 22, in
[radarbox-feeder] import mlat.client.version
[radarbox-feeder] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘mlat’

Radarbox support told me to try this. I guess supo apt wont work

sudo apt purge mlat-client
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install -y git curl build-essential debhelper python-dev python3-dev
cd
git clone GitHub - mutability/mlat-client: Mode S multilateration client

cd mlat-client
sudo apt install -y dh-python
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc

cd
sudo dpkg -i mlat-client_*.deb

This was fixed at the upstream with release 1.27.1 - see

and

I am waiting for their images to be built, and will release on my side as 1.27.1.1 - including new sensors <3

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thank you Max :slight_smile:

It works now :slight_smile:

Hello,
Did you find a solution of this? I have totally the same setup. I have FR24 and rbfeeder on a separate RPi instance. And I want just to use this add-on for a visualization. Add-on is staring properly but there is no info.

I am wanting to put my Flightaware dongle onto a seperate Rpi - running piaware. How do I get the data from it onto my HA instance on a different Rpi? Any help would be appreciated.

in the sensor config, point to the fr24 pi’s address etc
resource: http://192.168.1.153:9988/data/aircraft.json

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Many thanks

Any chance this will work on my x86 instance of HomeAssistant or is it only for arm arch?

Don’t think so. I just use the images provided by GitHub - Thom-x/docker-fr24feed-piaware-dump1090: Docker image of dump1090-fa, fr24feed, FlightAware, adsbexchange, Plane Finder, OpenskyNetwork, adsb.fi and Radarbox. and enhance them with some glitter.

You might ask thom-x in his repo, if he tried to build an x86 image.

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Hey, I installed the DSB-B multi-portal. feeder on my new RaspberryPi 4, but unfortunately, it won’t recognise the RTL2832 stick. What to do? Below are the logfiles.

[fr24feed] 2023-10-02 15:46:43 | [reader][i]Connecting to unknown receiver via (tcp://127.0.0.1:30005)
[fr24feed] 2023-10-02 15:46:43 | BeastBase::connectTcp(): Unable go connect, error: Connection refused[reader][e]Could not connect to tcp://127.0.0.1:30005

Hey!
Have had this installed for some months now, and I have to say, love it and hate it at the same time :smiley:
I had to share my feedback about it, and since I am not sure where to do so, I thought this topic could be the starting point:

I personally wanted to be able to point at a trace on the sky and tell my family “look, that plane left from Lisbon and it is on its way to Rome!” - and be able to do it in a timely manner.
This add-on is the closest I’ve found to be able to do it, but still does not fulfill the case; right now I can only say “look, that plane has a portuguese registration and license plate XYZ123”, which… is a little bit less appealing.

I understand that the destination from the flight is not read straight from the plane’s ADS-B, but since the add-on actually already has the flightradar24 API key, it would be neat if this information was pulled from FR24 as soon as the flight was detected on the feeder.

I am sure this has been requested many times, and there must be a reason why this has not been implemented - but I have been unable to figure it out just yet.

I will be using this post as well to cry for help if someone has managed to implement this somehow - if so, do please reach to me!

Thank you!

are you looking at the addon itself, or some dashboard integration?

At the ui of the addon you can simply click the plane icon and look at the bottom right - there are links to all the portals?
image

hey Max, thanks for the quick reply

my idea is to avoid that extra click and navigation to another page, but rather having it within the same view (my thought was either on the table on the right, or ideally on the table right above that link:

For example, on my phone I cannot select the plane on the map, so those links are not even reachable

Not sure if i understand correctly, but you can click on the Ident? Like the EI-EBC one?