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Offline mburch

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Setup help?
« on: September 06, 2024, 14:40:21 UTC »
Wondering if anyone might be able to give me some guidance on getting my setup working.

I bought the Canakit package with a Raspberry Pi 3B+, power supply, and enclosure, and the recommended Nooelec USB SDR.

First I tested the Pi with the default Raspbian installation, just to make sure it was working - no problems there.

Spent a weekend mounting an antenna in my attic and wiring a new outlet, thinking I was about to get online.

Then I installed the LiveATC card image. Now the Pi goes through its whole boot process and shows a login prompt, but the device seems to crash within about 1 second after the login prompt appears. The display just goes completely dead and my HDMI monitor shows "input disconnected". This repeats every time if I cycle power to the board.

Is it possible I have the wrong hardware? If there's a different Pi model I should have bought, I can give it a try, but I don't want to just throw parts at the problem without reason.

Or - is it possible to install the LiveATC services on top of a default Raspbian installation? I'm not really a unix guy, but I am an engineer and I can follow instructions, if anyone has an example I can follow.



Offline RonR

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Re: Setup help?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2024, 13:59:03 UTC »
Have you tried contacting LiveATC directly?  That might be the best way to go to get your questions answered.  You can do that by going here:

https://www.liveatc.net/ct/fcontact.php

I hope this helps.