https://pi-hole.net/2021/01/19/pi-ho.../#page-content
Get updating.
Indeed, thank you.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Thanks for the heads up. Would've missed that had I not seen your post.
Now updated, thanks again.
If anyone needs a webcam - I'm not sure you can beat this for the price?
https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/accesso...liate%3Ark5fv4
(it also does Windows hello).
Next Raspberry project went into PoC today.
I built a tiny webradio to update our Yamaha bathroom radio. It does now stream my daughter's favourite kids' radio stations via a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Once it has proven that it's running stable, I will put it inside the radio.
I've had a Pi running PiAware, feeding flight data to Flight Aware. Strangely, it just stopped working and it seems that the data on the microSD got a bit messed up. A clean install and I'm back up and running.
Managed to configure it so that dump1090 now feeds 3 service providers simultaneously! 1. Flight Aware 2. Flight Radar 24 3. Radar Box.
The latter, Radar Box is worth doing as it allows you to share what your Pi sees live on their website.
Here's my live feed... could well be quiet/clear when you visit.
https://www.radarbox.com/stations/EXTRPI021481
I'm using this mast, currently propped up inside my study velux window. It only has line of sight out the back of the house so I've a wall bracket waiting for fairer weather and a ladder! I'll be putting it on a 6ft pole to get it clear of the roof which should see a massive increase in my max range.
Last edited by JohnnyE; 25th January 2021 at 11:47.
Hi Johnny
Did you follow a guide to get all 3 set up? I've been sending data to FlightRadar for a couple of years on my pi (using their image). Last night, prompted by you as I fancied getting access to the Radar Box view, i used SSH to get into the Pi and set it up using a script i found to pass data to FlightAware - This now works fine but Flight Radar has now stopped (I suspect the FlightAware Config has taken control of the SDR radio) - So I need to work that out at some point. However I am happy to wipe it all and set up again if there is a a guide to getting all 3 services running and playing nice together?
Cheers
Neil
I'm on my phone Neil. I'll type you up a proper step guide later tonight. I've tried this for myself and my Dad and starting with FR24 adding the rest doesn't work smoothly. Start with flight aware, then add fr24 and radar box.
I'll find the URLs and post here later.
John
Great thanks John!
Another update.
https://pi-hole.net/2021/01/27/pi-ho...v5-6-released/
1. sign up 1st with flightaware at https://flightaware.com/
2. download the piaware image: http://piaware.flightcdn.com/piaware...rd-4.0.img.zip
3. Use balena etcher https://etcher.io/ to write piaware to the sdcard
4. Before moving the SD card to your pi, add a file called ssh to your root folder to enable ssh remote access. User will be pi with password = flightaware
4. Boot up your pi (i use ethernet, so no config needed)
5. Goto Flightaware and claim the pi https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/claim
This is you running just FlightAware at this stage. Dump1090 is capturing and streaming all the ADS-B data. You now want to add the 2nd and 3rd providers but you do NOT want those providers to try and install dump1090 or you'll kill off the initial install. I like using FlightAware as the primary install as their piaware map is better than FR24 imo. You can also see loads of info via the flightaware website - incl your local IP and the ability to trigger remote upgrades, reboots, restarts of dump1090 and more. Very very handy.
Assuming at this point you have a piAware map up and running locally... now install FR24
1. ssh to the pi - I use a cmd prompt in Windows... ssh pi@192.168.1.xxx with password flightaware
2. cd /etc
3.4. The FR24 app will download and install. Fill out your details and say "YES" when it asks would you like to auto configure. Its smart enough to see FlightAware and not mess it up with a 2nd dump1090Code:sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://repo-feed.flightradar24.com/install_fr24_rpi.sh)"
5. Log into FR24 on your PC/laptop and claim your pi https://www.flightradar24.com/activate-raspberry-pi
You'll have 2 running now. Confirm by looking at your account login on the FR24 website, 2nd option from the bottom of the menu "My Data Sharing". You'll see that you are online and feeding.
Last section... feeding Radar Box.
1. Sign up to radar box on their website.
2. SSH to the pi
3.4. You'll see the usual stuff fly by... answer yes to all.Code:sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - http://apt.rb24.com/inst_rbfeeder.sh)"
5. When its done, show your sharing key that was allocated to you
6. Now enter that key in the Radar Box website https://www.radarbox.com/raspberry-pi/claimCode:cd /etc sudo rbfeeder --showkey
7. You'll be asked to place a marker on your house to setup MLAT data sharing - do that and save. This writes your lon/lat into the pi remotely
8. Now see are you feeding on Radarbox. ACCOUNT/STATIONS in the menu.
9. MLAT didnt kick in until I powered off the pi and did a hard reboot.
That is it.... I'm sure I've missed some, but thats the crux of it.
Useful link for lon/lat and height above sea for MLAT config https://www.freemaptools.com/elevation-finder.htm
Let me know how you get on.
Last edited by JohnnyE; 28th January 2021 at 00:27.
Awesome. Thanks John. I'll give it a go in the morning!
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All up and running! Thanks for taking the time to add the instructions John!
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yeah just bought the antenna you linked and have eyed up a spot on top of the chimney to locate it once the wind/rain dies down.......
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Here's an interesting one - I've always had spotify premium - however my phone contract came with Youtube Premium - for the same price (if I was paying) you get all the same music as spotify but also ad-free youtube and other features (youtube downloads).
Yes I know you can fudge some of this but if anyone is looking for a paid music services, it's worth a look because of being music PLUS...
Can I clarify, you get to keep your Spotify premium account and playlists etc as is and YouTube premium is a bolt on
Or YouTube premium has the same music as Spotify?
I ask as I thought Id read that YouTube premium was replacing the Google music platform and there had been a number of teething problems
Anyone able to share their experience with webradios? My PoC is stuck.
I used Pi Musicbox, which is based on Mopidy and am not very happy. Firstly, it is very slow to react, starting new streams takes a very long time and I also find the web-UI slow and not very user friendly.
Anyone experience with streaming internet radio stations via a Pi? Or is this because I use a Zero with only 512 MB RAM?
It has the same music choice as spotify - they are unrelated services. Having used the app for a bit it's as good as the spotify one - the branding is a bit confusing you end up with:
* YT Music - the music service
* YT Premium - YT with no ads, downloads, able to play in the background, additional shows.
My point was that if anyone was starting from scratch and looking to pay - I'm not sure I'd pick spotify over Youtube Premium - because you get more for the same price...
Second vote for volumio, also have mine running logitech media server, and the bbc sounds plug-in for lms so all live radio and catchup, plus spotify
volumio can find asset server on my desktop where the FLACs live
At the moment have a pi3 B+ with iqaudio dac+ HAT in a full naim olive system, sounds great
Thinking of getting another pi 4 with HiFiberry DacHD but everywhere out of stock
Even for a Pi numpty it was pretty easy to set up
Raspberry Pi users of Raspbian or derivatives (most I suspect) may wish to read this:
https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/4083
TT
So teams had an update and you can make an emoji appear over your video stream - a friend of mine was doing a redundancy meeting and actually hit the button to make a laughing smiley appear while he explaining to people their jobs were going... this did not go down well.
Raspbian users reacted calmly once they discovered the surreptitious addition of a Microsoft software repository into their distribution, expressing elevated levels of peevedom. In response, the Raspbian maintainers expertly followed the hallowed internet guidebook and marketing bible called "Needlessly Making Things So Much Worse". Denying, then admitting, then defending, then contradicting themselves, before locking the discussion thread and taking their ball home.
In a highly unexpected twist that must have taken everyone quite by surprise, this caused peevedom levels to rise. Some users declared themselves actually irked. Others threw Raspberry Pi burning parties, swearing never to pay the distribution maintainers another cent and threatening to take their loyalty and totally valueless business elsewhere. A situation known in the Linux distro community as "the status quo".
If you are concerned, there is a suggestion in the referenced post that will remove the Microsoft link. At least until the next update, or the maintainers of your distro decide to make it optional.
TT
Yes. We all use it at work either in Virtualbox VMs or via WSL see https://pbpython.com/wsl-python.html for example
So I thought I'd give Edge another go because it has chromium underpinning it - on both my phone and desktop devices it seems much quicker than chrome? (even after I've put in my add-ons).
I've run a RPI with a GPS timing receiver for years, using it as a local NTP server. A few weeks ago I had to change out the Trimble timing receiver as it was becoming unresponsive commands. I put in a Uputronics GPS/RTC board made for the RPI.
Best wishes,
Bob
I got a SSL (Solid State Logic) S2 usb audio interface for its microphone preamp, so that I could use a decent microphone (Behringer XM8500 dynamic) for teaching and meetings. I've started to use the SSL S2 as a DAC and headphone amplifier. I'm suprised how well it sounds, especially as a headphone amplifier. I feed the main output to a small class-D amp connected to JBL Control One monitors. This is okay, but the class-D amp probably holds it back. But, all in all, a pretty good setup for my desktop computer audio.
One of the nice things about using it for microphone input and as a headphone amp is that it has real knobs. If I want to make sure the microphone is off, I just turn down the gain to 0. Similarly, the heaphone and main output are controlled by independen knobs. Much better than messing around with a mouse and virtual controls.
(I use an Apeman A80 action camera which I altered by putting in a lens with a narrower FOV for the video side of things. Much better than a standard webcam.)
Best wishes,
Bob
Because I can!
Also, to calibrate my program for analysing watch escapements. Also, although not so much recently, network timing for house wide sync'd music.
In any case, for these things, the important thing is to have a local, reliable, NTP server. It needn't be quite as accurate as the GPS disciplined server. Actually, none of the watches I wear need to be better than about +/- one minute a day. But they are.
Best wishes,
Bob
PS
Actually, I have two ntp servers running. The GPS disciplined one, and another which uses the GPS disciplined one as its source. Then all the computers in the house use that secondary one for their ntp source. Even the secondary one keeps time a couple of orders better than it would just using the net. And, more importantly, it has much, much less jitter. So, even the computers using the secondary source keep time much better than they would using a ntp server on the WAN.
RLF
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For the fellow pi-holers, I found this over on another forum, it tells your pi to go check for pi hole updates and install them (if any) at 7am every day:
If you SSH into the Pi, type in crontab -e and it will open a file. Scroll down to the bottom and add the following :
0 7 * * * /usr/local/bin/pihole -up
Save the file.
I doubt you need to do it every day. Just use this https://crontab.guru/ to work out what schedule. Eg once a week you want.
just rebuilt my ubuntu nuc with a couple of vm's one open vpn and the other a pi-hole.
I thought I'd seen a list of recommended black lists etc for the pi-hole on here but can't seem to find them, any pointers?
I use this as the basis https://firebog.net/
Sorry didn't check when I shared on mobile.
You can look here:
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
My old link has died, apologies. You can try this:
https://dbl.oisd.nl/
(enter this in Group Management -> Adlists exactly as above, then Tools -> Update Gravity)
It may be the only list you need. It contains at present over 900,000 domains. Check the bottom of the page on https://oisd.nl/ for some things it is designed not to interfere with. As ever you may get false positives, especially with a list this size, to be ready to whitelist or re-enable your previous list(s) if you prefer.
TT
Thanks both, Ill take a look later.
Strangely I noticed an internet outage on a device pointed directly to the pi-hole for dns this morning, a simple re-start of the dns service and all was well again but strange it failed after being up less than 24hrs, also perhaps only anecdotal but it seems to coincide with a window of ovpn testing from a remote site.
Thanks to Raffe & TT for the pointers, updated on the 17th and no coincidental outages since.