Relocating Pi using MLAT

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After using my 2nd RPi as an antenna tester for the past month, I’m thinking of moving it to my parents’ house (middle-of-nowhere Wisconsin), since there appear to be few stations around where they live. I have 2 questions for the experienced folks here:

  1. I’m currently feeding FA, FR24 and ADSB-exchange from my setup - with MLAT active. Can I move the Pi and just “update a few fields” (somewhere) to get all the websites understanding where I’ve moved, or is it easier in the long run to just wipe the SD-card and reinstall everything?

  2. I’m going to be in Wisconsin next week, but then not likely back for several months. I’d like a way to be able to remotely access the Pi behind my parents’ ISP/cable modem once I get back home. An IT friend suggested using TeamViewer - https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/solutions/remote-desktop/raspberry-pi/
    I’m curious if anyone here has used that software for such a purpose - or someone has an alternative to suggest.

Thanks.

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For PiAware, it’s just a case of updating the site location on your site stats page on the main FlightAware website.

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That’s great! The MLAT will probably take some time to update, since it needs to find the nearby sites, right?

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TeamViewer is perfectly fine for that purpose. As an IT guy I use it for management of my systems and those of our customers :+1:t2:

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Only if you want to have the GUI operational. For just CLI single SSH access is sufficient.
I never used Teamviewer on any of my devices

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SSH access can do the trick but you will have to enable port forwarding in the router on the opposite end.
For local networks you could use SSH only.
When communicating over different LAN’s there are more tools that can do the trick beside Teamviewer.
I have Teamviewer active logging into the CLI when needed, it depends what you choose in the booting sequence of the Raspberry Pi.

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To avoid port forwarding, Zerotier would do the trick.

Nothing required, simply working. Teamviewer would be possible as well.

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Teamviewer doesn’t need port forwarding as well, as said there are more ways to acchieve the goal.

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You can just rerun the adsbexchange feed client install to change the location:
https://github.com/ADSBexchange/feedclient

FR24 … not exactly sure.

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