Test and configuration questions

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I’m putting together a feeder for my son that lives 800 miles away and would like this to be as plug and play as possible. My thoughts are to build this, configure for my location, and check operation as a second feed on my account. Once connectivity is confirmed I’ll unlink from my account, reconfigure adsb-config.txt and wpa_supplicant.conf for his location and ship it. Would there be any problem unlinking this from my account and him linking to his account in the near future?

Also, I’ve managed to scramble the file system on a few projects by just shutting off power, so on headless Pi projects I like to add a pushbutton and reconfigure gpio 21 for the gpio shutdown overlay, especially since this project will operate so far from me. Does the feeder system look at this pin for any reason or will using this overlay affect the feeder operation in any way? Thanks!

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Not sure there’s any value in linking it to your account?

I would just set it up with a temporary/test MLAT name and your location, confirm that it receives, feeds and does MLAT OK (i.e. basically verify the hardware), then reimage and configure with a permanent MLAT name and his location. It’ll get a new UUID after the reimage. I’ve not tried configuring WiFi for an SSID that’s not present - there is a place to manually enter an SSID. You could try that, then maybe verify that wpa_supplicant.conf looks right before you ship it. The test instance will expire and disappear from ADSBx after a while.

I’m not aware of any use of GPIO by the ADSBx software…

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I’m new to ADSB myself and still uncovering the details. My main concern was having the same UUID showing feed from two different locations but your suggestion makes perfect sense and eliminates that concern, much appreciated.

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The only problem would be if the same UUID was feeding from 2 places at the same time, feeders move all the time.

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As usual I spent time over-thinking this. Burned a new image to SD card for his receiver, edited adsb_config and wpa-supplicant with my own information and it was up and running in 2 minutes with no other action required. I’ll get his local info and edit said files before I ship it out and I’m sure it will be plug and play for him as well. Thank you both for the help!