For Beginners - How to Get Back Existing Station Number in A Fresh Install

Ok, do this:

  1. Power-off RPi, slip out microSD card, slip into card reader, and plug the card reader to your desktop/laptop.

  2. In File explorer / File manger of desktop/laptop, double click on the drive letter of microSD card. You will see many files. One of these is named piaware-config.txt. Open this file, scroll-down to bottom, and at bottom add following line:

    feeder-id xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

    (Replace xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx by the Unique Identifier you have copied from your stats page)

  3. Save the file piaware-config.txtafter adding this line.

  4. Eject the mocroSD card, slip out from card reader, slip into RPi, and power-up.

  5. Wait for 5 minutes, then while logged-in to Flightaware, click this link, and see if all buttons are green.
    https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/

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