Hi. Do I need to do this in addition of burning 8.2 on the SD card?
You have to do this instead of burning the 8.2 image.
Burn the image with the raspberry pi imager software instead of the method used previously.
Ok. Thanks. I’ll try that.
Nothing happens when I plug the Pi. Where should I look to see it?
You need to connect to the Pi with a terminal program. Download the program called Putty and then you can connect it to the IP address the Pi has.
Or does the Pi not boot at all ? In that case the hardware might be the issue.
RECAP:
My Pi3 would show less and less planes over the days on the main page of PiAware until the’re were none. I burned 8.2 on a new card and used a brand new Pi3 with a new power supply; result is no connection, nothing happens. I then burned the SSH on a new SD card; same result, I don’t see anything happening. The only thing I didn’t touche is the dongle. I run Windows. Don’t know what to try next.
Is the Pi online at all?
That is the first step, then we can start looking into software.
Did you try to hook up a monitor, keyboard and mouse to see what happens when the Pi boots up ?
Is it connected wired or wireless ? If wireless, did you try a temporary connection with a cable?
I just connected the Pi3 to the network WIRED. Everything works fine with the 8.2 version when wired connected. How do I troubleshoot the wireless connection?
Now we are getting somewhere 
So you know now that the system functions and where the issue is.
Is it possible for you to leave it on the wired connection ?
Wi-Fi issues are a pain to solve.
Check this post for some troubleshooting steps.
Maybe your network name or the password have an error in them?
I have all equipment connected wired, so I can’t assist with solving the Wi-Fi issue.
I will leave it on the wired connection. Simpler that way. Big thanks again for the help. Really appreciated!
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Have you tried sudo raspi-config
1. System options
2. SSH enable (yes)
Wait for the RPI to tell you that SSH is enabled
sudo reboot
That should turn your SSH on in the RPI operating software. (OFF by default)
Once it is turned on try to disconnect the wired line and see if the PI boots again.
Then check your Flightaware stats page to get the RPI IP address.
Plug that IP address into your browser URL and your RPI should show up, then open that box at the bottom of that page to get IP of RPI/skyaware
As said before, be sure to set your closest airport, LON, LAT, and antenna height, on your dropdown box by clicking on the upper right “gear” icon…
P.S. Sometimes the wired IP address is different from the wireless address. Check wired IP address first, then if RPI boots up, if may have a different address…
Please do this:
(1) Power off Pi and slip out microSD card from Pi
(2) Insert the microSD card in card reader and plug the card in your Windows computer
(3) In Windows Explorer you will see a drive named “boot”. Double click to open it.
(4) In the opened folder create a blank text file and name it ssh
(5) In this folder you will find a file named piaware-config.txt. Open this file and scroll down till you see following two lines:
wireless-ssid MyWifiNetwork
wireless-password s3cr3t
Replace MyWifiNetwork with the name of your WiFi (aka the SSID of your local network)
Replace s3cr3t with the password to your WiFi
Save and close file piaware-config.txt
(6) Eject microSD card from Windows Computer, slip it into Pi and power up. Your WiFi and SSH will work now.
Please note the local IP for wired and wireless connections are different, see example below:
Wired IP 192.168.2.15
WiFi IP 192.168.2.18