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Like a bunch of folks, I got notified to update my flightradar24 process from 1.0.34-0 recently and as the previous instructions that I’d used, had been done with a manual install of the fr24feed via dpkg, I had to manually update it again. Luckily, https://www.allthingstech.ch/flightradar24-amd64-debian-repo had figured out and provided the initial hint to create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fr24.list with: deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.feed.flightradar24.com flightradar24 raspberrypi-stable' But, that gave me key signing errors. I found wiki pages that referenced the now deprecated apt-key but https://www....

I’ve yet to get on the container bandwagon and use a bunch of virts on my home server to partition out various use cases. But, it also means a bunch of instances that need management. One of the things that I want to automate is having the available updates installed. For Ubuntu, the easiest way that I’ve found is to do the following: sudo apt install unattended-upgrades And then set the configuration of /etc/apt/apt....

My Flight Radar 24 raspberry Pi was beginning to get really flakey. It would stay online, not trigger an outage warning from fr24.com but it would just stop sending data. I suspect that the SD cards were causing trouble but there were no obvious log messages showing problems. Luckily I recently came upon https://forum.flightradar24.com/forum/radar-forums/flightradar24-feeding-data-to-flightradar24/217119-alternatives-to-rpi, which allows you to run a fr24 ADS-B receiver on a x86 instance. I’ve now ported over my ADS-B reciever into a new dedicated virtual server and so far, so good....

A long long time ago, I was on livejournal and followed the herds through FB/TW and now back to blogging. I’ll likely use this as a place to dump notes and how I do various geeky things. Mostly because I need somewhere better than my shell history to keep a record of various things. More to come …