ADSB Raspberry Pi questions

[SurgePGH]

My adsbexchange SDR came today. I installed the SDR, the Micro SD card and configured it. (I think)
My Pi booted up, I set the Lat Lon and WiFi settings. The Pi rebooted and I used the default Username and Password when prompted. When I go to the adsbexchange website to verify that it is online I have the two green smiley faces.
My screen on the Pi is just at a prompt pi@adsbexchange:~$
No UI. Nothing other that the prompt.
Should I see some sort of desktop?
Should there be some sort of graphical UI?
I feel like I am missing something.

 

[nosoup4u]

type view1090 (view1090-fa if you used the flight aware image) and hit enter, see if you see anything. If it is working it should fill. up the screen with aircraft ID's

 

[SurgePGH]

type view1090 (view1090-fa if you used the flight aware image) and hit enter, see if you see anything. If it is working it should fill. up the screen with aircraft ID's

Command Not Found
I am at a basic prompt screen. The prompt is just pi@adsbexchange:~$
When I type view1090 I get the command not found,

 

[scanbc780]

I dont believe there is a desktop environment on ADSB-X, point your browser to the internal IP address assigned to the Pi and you will find a GUI you can use.

 

[a417]

Command Not Found
I am at a basic prompt screen. The prompt is just pi@adsbexchange:~$
When I type view1090 I get the command not found,

with any linux application, if you do not have the program/command's root directory listed in your PATH environment variable, you will need to be in the same folder at the shell prompt in order to run it.

you appear to be in the user's home directory (depending on how your shell is set up), so there might be a subfolder in which view1090 was installed in.

 

[edweirdFL]

No UI. Nothing other that the prompt.
Should I see some sort of desktop?
Should there be some sort of graphical UI?
I feel like I am missing something.

From a computer on the same network as the Pi, open a browser and go to http://adsbexchange.local/
You should see options and display stuff.

I haven't used the browser on my Pi to do that, but I do on my home PC all the time.

 

[SurgePGH]

From a computer on the same network as the Pi, open a browser and go to http://adsbexchange.local/
You should see options and display stuff.

I haven't used the browser on my Pi to do that, but I do on my home PC all the time.

So if I'm running this on my Pi I can not run anything else?
I'm OK if it runs in the background but would like to still run other stuff on my Pi

 

[edweirdFL]

On my Pi4 with both ADSBExchange SDRs installed I'm seeing below 20% CPU utilization. Seems to me to have enough resources to do some other things at the same time. I'm not an RPi4 expert, just have one for running the Broadcastify image, and one for the ADSBExchange image.

 

[invergordon]

So if I'm running this on my Pi I can not run anything else?
I'm OK if it runs in the background but would like to still run other stuff on my Pi

Yes you certainly can run other things. My ADSBExchange Pi runs a bunch of PHP scripts for sendin ADS-B data to a remote database for storage and reporting. I have used it for weather station usage. My Pi4 only consumes about 5-6% CPU with all the stuff running. BTW I'm running the OS Lite headless version so no graphical overheads.

 

[SurgePGH]

Yes you certainly can run other things. My ADSBExchange Pi runs a bunch of PHP scripts for sendin ADS-B data to a remote database for storage and reporting. I have used it for weather station usage. My Pi4 only consumes about 5-6% CPU with all the stuff running. BTW I'm running the OS Lite headless version so no graphical overheads.

I'm just not familiar with it enough.
I used the SD Card that came with it. Once everything boots up the ADSB is reporting properly but on my screen is just a prompt. No desktop like I am used to. I run the Broadcastify app on another Pi and it runs on a desktop I can still use it for other things but the ADSB one doesn't.