BCFY-pi - Trunk Recorder concurrent connections?

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Is there a maximum of how many pi's you can have going on one connection ingesting calls via trunk recorder?

I have four pi's operating at my house - 3 doing bcfy calls duty and 1 doing flightaware/adsb exchange duty. All four share the same power outlet via power strip, but each use their OEM (Canakit) voltage adapter. All four share the same antenna using an Electorline EDA-2800 zero loss amp splitter. On that splitter are multiple BCD996xt/BCD996p2's. And of course, all 4 use the same internet connection with their own local static IP address assigned. The bcfy's use RTL-SDR's, flightware/adsb exchange uses the flightaware branded blue stick.

It seems as though I can only reliably have 2 of 3 pi's going for bcfy calls. I plan on sitting down tomorrow and doing some more through troubleshooting, but as of right now, it seems any combination of one or the other will knock the third off, an I just haven't been able to pinpoint anything specific yet. Anything in particular I should check first? Thanks for any suggestions.

Also, has anyone been able to figure out the VNC 'Cannot currently show the deskop' message? I'm not pi proficient, so I do rely on the GUI, but it seems I can only VNC to the one I have hooked up to a screen.

 

[kslager]

Is there a maximum of how many pi's you can have going on one connection ingesting calls via trunk recorder?

I have four pi's operating at my house - 3 doing bcfy calls duty and 1 doing flightaware/adsb exchange duty. All four share the same power outlet via power strip, but each use their OEM (Canakit) voltage adapter. All four share the same antenna using an Electorline EDA-2800 zero loss amp splitter. On that splitter are multiple BCD996xt/BCD996p2's. And of course, all 4 use the same internet connection with their own local static IP address assigned. The bcfy's use RTL-SDR's, flightware/adsb exchange uses the flightaware branded blue stick.

It seems as though I can only reliably have 2 of 3 pi's going for bcfy calls. I plan on sitting down tomorrow and doing some more through troubleshooting, but as of right now, it seems any combination of one or the other will knock the third off, an I just haven't been able to pinpoint anything specific yet. Anything in particular I should check first? Thanks for any suggestions.

Also, has anyone been able to figure out the VNC 'Cannot currently show the deskop' message? I'm not pi proficient, so I do rely on the GUI, but it seems I can only VNC to the one I have hooked up to a screen.

I chalked this issue up to some defective ~6" USB pig tales that I had put between the pi's and RTL-SDR's. Seems like every time I would bump or mess with one, another would go offline. When I did a reboot on them, they worked great for hours until I started messing around again. Apparently a slight loss of power or connection and the RTL-SDR will crap the bed and it can not recover its self. I did a wiggle test individually and got rid of a couple bad cables.