Tar1090 for Uconsole monitor live planes in your area

Calling all Tar1090 fans see Uconsole guide how to get Tar1090 workig on uconsole. Follow the guide below. Powered by Dragon OS thanks to @Rex

STEP1
tar1090 install
sudo bash -c “$(wget -nv -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090/raw/master/install.sh)”

Click the following URL and replace the IP address with address of your Raspberry Pi:
http://192.168.x.yy/tar1090

STEP2
Automatic installation for readsb
sudo bash -c “$(wget -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-scripts/raw/master/readsb-install.sh)”
sudo reboot

Update

sudo bash -c “$(wget -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-scripts/raw/master/readsb-install.sh)”

Handy commands for readsd.
Run until next reboot
sudo systemctl start readsb

disable service
sudo systemctl disable --now readsb

Enable on every boot
sudo systemctl enable --now readsb

To uninstall readsb run:
sudo /usr/local/share/tar1090/uninstall.sh

Tar1090 GitHub - wiedehopf/tar1090: Provides an improved webinterface for use with ADS-B decoders readsb / dump1090-fa

Readsb Automatic installation for readsb · wiedehopf/adsb-scripts Wiki · GitHub



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Well i will attempt to get this working using the sdr lora expanshion card to decode signal.

Used dump with sdrplay rsp1 quite often in the past under Ubuntu and
raspibian, even in remote environment over the local network.
That above suppose to work as is with the same chip like rtl-sdr usb dongles.

That dump1090 repo doesn’t work for me.
The planes are not showing on the screen.

I used:

You will need this too:

I think we need a proper guide for dump1090 for uconsole hopefully we will get it working with the sdr lora module.

You may try with this one:

Dump1090 guide above tested and working with the SDR LoRa expanshion module. If you try to run without the SDR device you will get the below.

I used this do you know how to stop Readsb in the background as it wont alow me to connect to SDA radio.

sudo systemctl disable --now readsb

To uninstall readsb run:

sudo /usr/local/share/tar1090/uninstall.sh

How to renable it when i want to.

Run until next reboot:

sudo systemctl start readsb

Enable on every boot

sudo systemctl enable --now readsb

Run until next reboot
sudo systemctl start readsb

disable service
sudo systemctl disable --now readsb

Enable on every boot
sudo systemctl enable --now readsb

To uninstall readsb run:
sudo /usr/local/share/tar1090/uninstall.sh

New guide above updated using tar1090 and readsb. This conbination is a much better user expireance and works great on the Uconsole using the SDR LoRa expanshion board.