Can you explain this version difference?

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At first I was confused whether my feeder had upgraded or not. Actually, I have two feeders, I triggered the upgrade on both of them. One was on 8.x, the other on 9.x. They both seem to be on 10.0.1 now. Following the link to my local map display, I see 9.x but I see now that is SkyAware whereas the other is PiAware.

A related question - when I triggered the upgrade, I thought it didn’t work. I didn’t notice the new version until the following day. When triggering an upgrade, I thought it happened right then. Is that not the case? Does it wait until overnight or something?

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Piaware is the software feeding the data to Flightaware and Skysware is the software that is hosting your data on your local machine

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Most web browsers also cache static elements of the web page such as that whole button area and will be in memory or disk for a period of time. Assuming you are using chrome or something like it Ctrl+Shift+R or Cmd+Shift+R (MacOS) will reload while ignoring cache. Cache are web page dependent but often are at least a few hours which would explain why coming back the next day after enough time passed caused it to reload the web page from the webserver.

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We just had a storm that knocked out one of my feeders. It looks like it was mainly the power supply. I replaced that, and few adjustments later, it’s back online, and now it’s displaying Skyaware 10.0.1

Good point about the cache, but I’m fairly certain (not 100% though) that I refreshed.

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Without knowing the details about your installed OS and the update status, it’s hard to say.

Typically BPO is a backport which is meant to run on an older OS version for compatibility reasons

Please excecute uname -a on both devices and show the result here.

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Linux piaware 5.15.76-v7+ #1597 SMP Fri Nov 4 12:13:17 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

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Linux piaware 5.15.76-v7l+ #1597 SMP Fri Nov 4 12:14:58 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux
for the other one

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@ExCalbr
Please post output of following commands for both devices

lsb_release -sd

apt-cache policy dump1090-fa | grep Installed

apt-cache policy piaware | grep Installed
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Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Installed: 10.0.1~bpo11+1

Installed: 10.0.1~bpo11+1

Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Installed: 10.0.1~bpo11+1

Installed: 10.0.1~bpo11+1

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BTW, this morning when I went to my feeder that didn’t have the problem, it showed Skyaware 8.2. When I hit shift-refresh, it changed to 10.0.1. I am using the Brave browser.