Virtual Radar Server - Trouble shooting!

[Archive-8]

Chris,

If you don't mind I think it would be better to have a go at that lot tomorrow morning, or some other time tomorrow, as I am feeling a little "tattered" now and I still have some things to do around the house (feed the cats, get something to eat, "relax"!)

Ok mate, talk tomorrow.

 

[jeallen01]

Chris

Good morning

OK to start whenever you are.
PS: Have now got the following set up - only slight problem there is that the flags are not showing up in the VRS web view, although the silhouettes are .

 

[Analoguesat]

It may be a silly question but have you unzipped the files?

If you have it might be worth moving them up a folder or two so they are just inside the add-ns / country flags folder

 

[jeallen01]

A/S

Yes, all the flag folders contain "unzipped" flag image files which I can see when I look there.

I have a VRS folder which contains a sub folder for the "run" files for the VRS, and another one which contains all the "add ins" folders including one for the "Country Flags", with all the individual flag sub-folders inside that, and the current version of the above screen shot shows the "Flags Folder" field pointing to that Country Flags folder

Another thing: last night I said that the MLat CLient Command Line was showing "connected" but there did not appear to be any data exhanges, but this morning it is showing regular data exchanges.

 

[Analoguesat]

You have the VRS path pointing directly at the folder with the bitmap icons in it in it?

My operator bmp flags are in the operatorlogos1 folder - it doesnt seem to work if you are a folder too high:

 

[jeallen01]

A/S

I note that your operator bmp flags are 4th level down from the root on your hard disc, and yet my Country flags are also 4th level down but I don't see them - as here

 

[Analoguesat]

Hmm. Might be worth unzipping one of the operator logo zips them into a different folder on your hard drive & pointing the folder path at that one to see what happens.

 

[jeallen01]

A/S

Tried two things
- Moving the Flags folders up another level
- Copying the complete Flags folder to my C:\ drive.

Then also closed and restarted Dump1090, MLat Client and VRS - nothing worked

Now I'm wondering if VRS does not "like" being on anything other than the C:\drive - will take a look at that.

Edited:
Now copied VRS to the C:\ drive, and then moved the Country Flags folder directly up to the root of C:\, then pointed VRS directly to the Small Flags folder in that folder, then - still "nothing"!

So tried completely uninstalling (from the Control Panel) and reinstalling VRS to whatever folder it "wanted to be" - which turned out to be C:\Programme Files (X86) - and then looked at the Options, which, funnily enough, showed the Flags (etc.) folders boxes are still pointing to the same ones as before I uninstalled VRS, which I thought was rather "odd". Of course, still no Flags on the webpage!

Oh well - "never mind"!

 

[Archive-8]

@jeallen01 so sorry i wasn't able to get back to you until now. My sdr PC is not running at the moment as waiting on parts. And I have to go out again, and won't be back until Wednesday.

 

[jeallen01]

Chris

No problem at all, and I have other things to do anyway - so get back in touch whenever it is convenient to you

 

[Archive-8]

@jeallen01 to add location to VRS

tools>options>receiver locations



click the green +


and then you should see a box like this



enter your location details

 

[Archive-8]

then load vrs in your web browser

and click the menu button



and then options

 

[Archive-8]

and look for current location


untick all boxes except set current location.

 

[Archive-8]

then close the menu box and move the drop pin to your location

then we need to go back to the VRS menu menu>options>current location

and untick the set current location box so you have the show current location box ticked.

 

[Archive-8]

now go to map

and look for the range circles box


set them to your liking

 

[Archive-8]

back to VRS


it should open your browser and look like this



click the export settings



copy all the garbage to the clip board

 

[Archive-8]

now go back to vrs tools>options>website>initial settings



and paste the clipboard to the big blank box


then click ok

 

[jeallen01]

@chris
Back to the "Splatter Diagrams " problem - on the previous page of this thread you showed this


However, when I do the same thing, I only get this


So the setup procedure must have gone wrong somewhere - will have another go in a few minutes after I've had a cup of tea and so on

BTW: location is correctly set in both the Map menu, and in the local VRS setup

 

[Archive-8]

@chris
Back to the "Splatter Diagrams " problem - on the previous page of this thread you showed this
View attachment 101192

However, when I do the same thing, I only get this
View attachment 101193

So the setup procedure must have gone wrong somewhere - will have another go in a few minutes after I've had a cup of tea and so on

BTW: location is correctly set in both the Map menu, and in the local VRS setup

Hit the export settings button, copy to the clipboard, and go to initial settings in the vrs prog.

 

[jeallen01]

Hit the export settings button, copy to the clipboard, and go to initial settings in the vrs prog.

Chris

That's what I've now done, and it seems to have made some difference to the number of "#xxxx" lines when you go to the Settings.html page - have now completely rebooted that PC to see if that helped, and this is what that page looks like now:


Still not seeing Splatter diagrams though