Feeding OGN using balena and Docker

[ketilmo]

Hi @VirusPilot,

Thanks for creating this excellent repo! I'm the maintainer of balena-ads-b, a solution for feeding ADS-B data to the most popular flight tracking solutions using Docker and balena orchestration.

As a paraglider pilot myself, I wanted to create a similar solution for OGN, that could also run side-by-side with the ADS-B feeding. Over the past few years, I've tried to get the default OGN setup working in the Docker and balena environments. While I was partially successful, I could not get it to run on x64-based operating systems, which is required when using balena on RPi 4. But to my delight, I got it to work using your distribution. So thanks a lot for providing this. Great work!

I want to make the modifications available to the community and ask your permission to use your distribution files and scripts as part of this setup. I will, of course, credit you and link back to the original project.

[VirusPilot]

Hi @ketilmo ,

Sure, I am happy to hear that my scripts are useful for your project. Please feel free to use my files and scripts as part of your setup!

[ketilmo]

Thank you so much, @VirusPilot! I appreciate it! I will report back here when I have everything ready.

[VirusPilot]

Looking forward to your next release!

[ketilmo]

Hi @VirusPilot,

It's been a while, but the balena OGN setup is finally up and running. I've been testing and incrementally adjusting it during the past few months at several sites, and it's working well. Now I need to finish the documentation so others can make use of this, too.

You can have a look here: https://github.com/ketilmo/balena-ogn

Thank you so much for your excellent work in this area and your assistance!

[VirusPilot]

Sure, happy to see that it works fine. The OGN libraries have recently beed upgraded to v0.3.2 to ensure compatibility with the latest FLARM update.

[ketilmo]

Thank you! Yes, I updated to v0.3.2 earlier this week. It seems to be working well.

[VirusPilot]

One minor thing - I suggest removing the following from "ogn.conf.tpl" as this was only related to a private project from Pawel who is the main developer behind OGN:

FRB:
{
DetectSNR = 10.0;
Server = "ogn3.glidernet.org:50000";
};

Furthermore please note some more comments in the "Template.conf", e.g. setting the default GSM frequency to "0".

[ketilmo]

Thanks for pointing this out, @VirusPilot! It's appreciated. I have now removed the FRB section from the config, and changed the GSM center frequency and gain according to the values you have in your setup.

[VirusPilot]

Sure, no problem.

[ketilmo]

Hi again,

I have now created the docs and deployed the solution to the balena Hub for easy deployment. Thanks again for your assistance and great work!

[VirusPilot]

Thank you for considering my work!