Hey-
Anyone else ever have this happen? We have two sites. I went on vacation for a month and one of my Pi’s ended up getting a corrupted SD card and went offline.
My account still shows that unique receiver ID tied to the account, but somehow my Site ID and the associated three years of data tied to it are now gone.
Any ideas?
Thanks
To recover your site, first copy the receiver IDs ftom the Linked Piaware Receivers page to a text file on your computer for later use. Keep that file!
Sadly, the three years of data were kept on the corrupted SD card and may not be recoverable. I had a SD card that failed to boot, but using a usb/SD card adaptor was able to recover some files as only the bootable OS files seemed to be corrupted. All depends how the SD card failed.
On a newer SD card, install the current PiAware image, and then edit
sudo nano /boot/piaware-config.txt
Add the following below the line: # Additional settings can be added below.
#feeder-id e6******---****-**********0c
#feeder-id 6d******---****-**********1e
Customize the names to your names or site number, and put the feeder ids in the respective positions. Remove the # from the ID you want to use. The # character creates a comment field and lline is then ignored.
I keep a saved copy of my piaware-config.txt files in my computer. Other handy lines can be included in this file for when you need to customize your setup after a fresh install. I add a couple of lines to help me get a new system up and running quickly.
#sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get upgrade
#sudo apt-get install git unzip
#// install helpful graphs of ADSB performance
#git clone GitHub - wiedehopf/graphs1090: Graphs for readsb / dump1090-fa / dump1090 (based on dump1090-tools by mutability)
#cd graphs1090
#sudo ./install.sh
#// to update:
#sudo bash -c “$(wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiedehopf/graphs1090/master/install.sh)”
This file is yours to customize as you desire, just keep the Piaware portions intact.
Others here will likely have some better ways to recover, this is just a way I do it myself. Hope all goes well on your recovery. Have fun.
Once I serialized the dongles, added the existing feeder back into the missing site ID listing above, the site automatically reassigned my old feeder ID back despite it not appearing in the list in my screenshot above initially.
Seems like a weird website but but resolved.
Thanks!
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