Make sure you also pay attention to the distance rating of the SFP. I had a very similar experience with modules not working at the right speed sometimes. Turned out I was running 50 meters of cable over a 30 meter SFP. Got the correct one, and as low wattage rating as possible and it's been rock solid ever since.

Oops, just posted the same thing, you beat me to it, good looking out =)

Can you please share more details on that docker image setup?

I have been using this Docker image on my Pi and it has been rock solid once you get it setup: https://github.com/mikenye/docker-piaware

Hah, you both beat me too it and I didn't realize until I posted the comment. Cheers

If you upload data with PiAware or something similar, FlightAware gives you an Enterprise level account, not sure if that offers API benefits though - https://flightaware.com/commercial/premium/#subscriptions https://blog.flightaware.com/201802-free-benefits-with-your-...

oh yea! great point, I forgot about that. I am using PiAware to handle the decoding so I do have an Enterprise Account. I will have to check if I can make API calls for free.

Unfortunately FlightAware Enterprise doesn't get discounted API access.

The FlightAware API I was using (they have multiple) didn't provide all the data I wanted either. The ADSB Exchange Rapid API was more comprehensive, but came at a cost.

The aircraft don't broadcast everything over ADSB - so these sites are all pulling from a database somewhere else. It appears ADSB Exchange and some of the pi based UIs use the tar1090-db. This was easy to work with and free - just need to update it periodically due to registration changes.

https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090-db

Very slick! Were you using PiAware or listening to ADSB prior to this project?

I remember starting a similar project years ago when I got my first RTL-SDR adapter - didn't get too far, but probably cheaper than this setup https://web.archive.org/web/20160228105159/http://simonaubur...