Moved mSD card from raspberry pi B to pi 2 : stats are down

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Hello,

I have Move the micro SD card from raspberry pi B to a pi 2 and my stats for flightaware are down.
Planefinder and fr24 are still fed and I can reach my dump muta 1.15 development Webpage that show planes.

What did I miss?

Best regards,
Regis
PS : I run latest update/upgrade and kernel already.

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By changing the Pi, your MAC-address has changed (the unique address of your Ethernet adapter).

This is the hardware address that identifies your site. You have to register a new site, because of that, even you did not change the location.

There are also ways to fake your MAC-address, so that it looks like your new Pi has the address from the old one, but if you are not experienced, I would not suggest to do so.

Kabuse

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You do need a better antenna or antenna placement - it looks like you have a maximum range of just over 50nm - it shouldn’t be difficult to get 3 or 4 times that wit even a simple antenna placed outside.

See ads-b-flight-tracking-f21/three-easy-diy-antennas-for-beginners-t20177.html

as for stats being down, it could be due to weather or relocation of antenna.

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I keep same wifi adapter but this sounds rational as per flashing message on flightaware with a mac address

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I got top notch FA antenna gain +6from Wifi expert on eBay and I am about to set the filter amp for +12 gain.

I moved to PI2 to use one usb to power the filter amp using one free port (consume 60ma).

I need to get a MINI usb cable tonight and I will reclaim the device.

I live in ground floor level in city… I know this is not optimised, but I train to move the setup in November to Eastern France where I expect more efficient capture.

EDIT: new device reclaim, but I wonder why I did not claim the device under wifi, I wouldn’t have this problem today.
I tried for a bit to spoof the mac address but I failed and rolled back. It makes like a new device, fresh start, with pre-amp filter, I am looking forward for improvements.

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It’s the hardware MAC address of the Pi that is used, not the wifi or any secondary ones.

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Just like I’ve said before, it’s the address of the ETHERNET-adapter!

This makes perfectely sense.

Who will identify a site by the MAC of a WIFI-dongle that can be changed all the time?

The RasPi ist the site, not the WIFI-dongle!

Kabuse

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Thank, confirmed and resolved