History:
The original Stratux software was released under the BSD3 license, it is freely available and may be modified. This has led to the desired effect that cyoung’s software, originally written for North America, has been extended and adapted (forks) by many developers.
The software developed by cyoung „only“ evaluates ADS-B data, but also the weather and airfield data (978 MHz) which is widely available in the USA. Since this data service is still under develop in the EU (and especially in Germany) and is far from being available nationwide, developers have set about using the existing hardware to evaluate receivable 868 MHz-data (e.g. FLARM) instead. The approach to decode FLARM data originally comes from the OGN and was first published in the Stratux-fork by PepperJo. 868 MHz-technology is not very common in North America and therefore of greater interest to Stratux users in Europe.
Since there are more and more forks and extensions over time, b3nn0 has made it their business to maintain a european variant of the software, which includes all sorts of useful additional features and also always quickly implements the changes from the original code of cyoung.
software „installation“:
The software can be downloaded as an image from GitHub (see links below). The image must be flashed to the micro SD card (copy+paste does not work!).
1 – free software is needed for flashing:
balenaEtcher https://www.balena.io/
2 – select and download a Stratux image via GitHub:
https://github.com/cyoung/… Stratux
https://github.com/PepperJo/… Stratux + 868 MHz (FLARM)
https://github.com/b3nn0/… Stratux Europe Edition (incl. 868 MHz – FLARM / OGN / PAW / FANET / PilotAware) (tested + recommendation)
In each case, directly select the zip file, download and unzip.
3 – Flash the unzipped image file to the SD card using balenaEtcher.
The whole thing is also explained in detail in the following video:
Video tutorial (from BL-Solutions)