Using the website go to my adsb then open the site settings. Click on update and restart. All looks to work well but after refreshing the website still running 6.0. Hard stop and cold start the Raspberry PI does not work either…
Any assistance is appreciated!
Get yourself a spare SD card and start with a clean install.
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Thanks! Wanted to avoid that but will do! New learning experience!
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Yeah, I understand, but with a new card, you can set it up while it’s in a PC and just swap cards in a single visit.
If you’ve made an error (or don’t like it etc.) you can swap back to a known working card while sorting out the problems.
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Again, thank you for the tips and positive boost!
Will let you know the outcome… Have to get to Microcenter to get several SD cards. Have a spare PI 4 that needs a new card.
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Also while running your old system, write down the old Unique Identifier information on the system. Mine looks like this on the FlightAware User page:
Unique Identifier: e6f48ef4-4508-421d-8c37-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Then edit the /boot/piaware-configure.txt file and add the following at the file end:
#feeder-id e6f48ef4-4508-421d-8c37-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Of course use the real Unique Identifier information from your old system, might work better than xxx’s.
Lots of other posts here on setting up a new system and keeping your old stats. Also recommend you add @wiedehopf ’s graphs1090. Those graphs help you make your system easy to improve.
Whatever you do, have fun and enjoy. Nice improvements since 6.0 too!
Following command will output existing feeder-id on
- RaspberryPi OS image with package install
- Piaware SD card image
cat /var/cache/piaware/feeder_id
For Beginners - How to Get Back Existing Station Number in A Fresh Install
For Beginners - Piaware Feeder-id Mechanism
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New installs are pretty quick.
If you want to keep your old account details ( not essential) then after installation just get your Unique Identifier number from your stats page
Manually edit the /etc/piaware.conf file
On the last free line enter enter feeder-id followed by space then that long ID number.
Reboot then all data still remains.
Geoff
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Thanks! Getting all parts required together today!
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WOW! Yes! Quick and easy! Up and running with Piaware 8.2!
Thanks for the positive feedback!
UP and RUNNING! Picked up 2 new SD cards, installed the latest Piaware. Pulled the old SD, pushed in the new SD waited 5 mins and WOW!
THANKS for the assist!
ps – as I was putting up the spare SD and the along with the old one, found another spare I had with my spare Pi 4! So worked out all the way around.
On to the next project!
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