Any step by step on setting up Flightaware and virtual radar on a windows PC

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I have a old AMD A-6 APU machine that I would like to set up. Can find all kinds of stuff for PiAware, but little on windows. Is there a site I can go to to give me some guidance? Looked around here and the Wiki, but nothing for a first timer. Thanks.
 

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After you get this working locally then you just have to port forward it to Flightaware in the settings and options.
 

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I had vr working perfect and now after updating to the latest version I can not get something working. I am able to adsb spy and then virtual radar. I am able to click on my local link (http://127.0.0.1:30010/VirtualRadar/desktop.html). That works fine and I see the planes in my area. When I try to use my ip address to see it over the internet, its not working. (http://xx.xxx.xx.xxx:95/VirtualRadar)

I went into the router and see that it set itself up as seen in the pic below.

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Had it running before. What am I missing? All I want to do is send someone my ip so they can see my antennas reach.
 

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I have disabled windows firewall and still can not get it over internet. I can get local and network working. I have tried on both chrome and internet explorer.
 

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Check your receiver options push box checked? Also check what port vrs wants you to use? Sorry I haven’t messed with vrs in a while I just open adsbexchange.com.
 

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the easiest way I found was use rtl1090 with virtual radar -
SignalsEverywhere: ADS-B Aircraft Tracking with RTL-SDR, dump1090 and Virtual Radar Server
 

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the easiest way I found was use rtl1090 with virtual radar


It's not an adsb or 1090 thing. It vrs and ports. I am able to launch and connect to,

http://127.0.0.1:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://192.168.1.29:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://XX.XXX.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar = This site can’t be reached. XX.XXX.17.197 refused to connect..

I have tried different ports and turned off windows firewall. I do not have any other firewalls running. I have added ports to my router and even rebooted after each change. I had this going before the last update so the set up I had before should be working.
 

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It's not an adsb or 1090 thing. It vrs and ports. I am able to launch and connect to,

http://127.0.0.1:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://192.168.1.29:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://XX.XXX.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar = This site can’t be reached. XX.XXX.17.197 refused to connect..

I have tried different ports and turned off windows firewall. I do not have any other firewalls running. I have added ports to my router and even rebooted after each change. I had this going before the last update so the set up I had before should be working.

Try this URL:

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http://xx.xxx.17.197:95/VirtualRadar

Your firewall settings show that you port forwarded your internet TCP Port 95 to 192.168.1.29:30010 , but you are trying to view http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar

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It's not an adsb or 1090 thing. It vrs and ports. I am able to launch and connect to,

http://127.0.0.1:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://192.168.1.29:30010/VirtualRadar = gets map up and show planes perfectly

http://XX.XXX.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar = This site can’t be reached. XX.XXX.17.197 refused to connect..

I have tried different ports and turned off windows firewall. I do not have any other firewalls running. I have added ports to my router and even rebooted after each change. I had this going before the last update so the set up I had before should be working.
Sorry, I didnt really read through the replies I just replied to the OPost.
So, you have rtl1090 running, and it is not able to get access through the port?

As posted above, make sure the port that is displayed is the right one forwarded
 

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Sorry for the confusion, when I went into my router, vrs had already had set up and was using port 5004. I tried with that and it did not work. I added a rule to router and did port 95 and tried the ip address with port 95. That did not work either.
 

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Just to clarify, what programs are you running? I know youre running virtual radar, but what decoding software? RTL1090?
Im asking because RTL1090 usually works well with ports and doesnt require any manual forwarding
 

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Sorry for the confusion, when I went into my router, vrs had already had set up and was using port 5004. I tried with that and it did not work. I added a rule to router and did port 95 and tried the ip address with port 95. That did not work either.

Dave,

Do you have a way to browse http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar via an external internet source (not through your router)? I ask because some routers will allow you to browse/access the external address from inside your network, and some will not.

Example of what I'm asking:

a. On your internal network you try to browse to http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar and are unable to
b. If you have a cell phone (set to use cellular data, not wifi), try browsing to http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar using cellular data
c. If you have access to some other remote location where you can a browser and attempt to view http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar, do that

If B / C works, then your router simply doesn't allow you to access the WAN IP address / ports from behind the router.

In short, it may actually work for you when you are "outside" of your network.

note: Google "hairpin NAT"

Mike
 

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Just to clarify, what programs are you running? I know youre running virtual radar, but what decoding software? RTL1090?
Im asking because RTL1090 usually works well with ports and doesnt require any manual forwarding

At the moment I am just running virtual radar. That's it. You do not need dump1090, rtl1090 or adsb running yet. Virtual radar has a web server and I cannot access it from internet side. You can access the server with or without a dongle decoding as seen below

Do you have a way to browse http://xx.xxx.17.197:5004/VirtualRadar via an external internet source (not through your router)? I ask because some routers will allow you to browse/access the external address from inside your network, and some will not.

Mike, I tried from laptop and cellphone, both on different networks and keeps saying it can not access the page. I am able to from both cell and laptop connect to vr and see the map from on my network. In vr, I can see my laptop and cell connected.

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After dinner, and hooking the heat back up in the bathroom, i'm going to try to run vr off the laptop and see if I can get in from the pc over the internet.
 

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Why not try running rtl1090? I'm guessing you have a specific reason, but I would definitely give it a shot as I'm pretty sure the first time I used virtual radar I couldn't open my server either until the first time I configured it correctly.
 

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Why not try running rtl1090?
Originally I did and I could not access from the web. Then I tried dump1090 and adsb spy and same result. The playing around over the home network I discovered I could connect without the dongle.




Set up on laptop and same thing. Ran a port scan on 5004 and said it was closed. Ran a scan on 80 - 1000 and it says
All 921 scanned ports on ool-457511c5.dyn.optonline.net (69.117.17.197) are filtered

I am altice optimum. Need to research this,
 

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Originally I did and I could not access from the web. Then I tried dump1090 and adsb spy and same result. The playing around over the home network I discovered I could connect without the dongle.




Set up on laptop and same thing. Ran a port scan on 5004 and said it was closed. Ran a scan on 80 - 1000 and it says
All 921 scanned ports on ool-457511c5.dyn.optonline.net (69.117.17.197) are filtered

I am altice optimum. Need to research this,

You might want to double check that the port forwarding rule that you had added is still in there, and that it is active. Other than that, perhaps OO blocks most if not all ports by default if you have a residential connection (to prevent you from doing things on it that they might feel you shouldn't be doing).

Mike
 

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Somethings up, ran a scan

Open Ports
These are ports which your device can successfully start TCP connections to.

Open ports: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18
 
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