Hi All,
I have been running on a Raspberry Pi 2 and just ordered a Pi 3. Can I simply take the SD card out of the pi 2 and stick it into the pi 3, claim the new install on this site and go? Will all my stats and everything continue as they are now?
If you are running a later version of the O/S, like Jessie, then the card should work.
Wheezy won’t work on an RPI3.
The stats are tied to the MAC address of the card. A new session will be created when you start up the new RPI.
You can search for forums for how to clone the MAC address so the stats continue.
To spoof MAC address in RPi 2, I used following method (did not try with Pi3):
First copied the MAC address of my old Pi from my Flightaware stats page.
Then edited file cmdline.txt
~ $ sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
This file has only one line:
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
I added the following to the end of the line:
smsc95xx.macaddr=##:##:##:##:##:##
where ##:##:##:##:##:## is the MAC address of old Pi copied from Flightaware stats page.
The line will now look like this:
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait smsc95xx.macaddr=##:##:##:##:##:##
Sae the file and reboot.