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Managing a remote station using ZeroTier
If you wish to manage and view data from a remote adsb station, follow the steps below before you deploy to the remote location
ZeroTier is a peer to peer networking tool that is free (for up to 50 devices). Unlike other tools such as OpenVpn which route all traffic over the VPN, ZeroTier selectively routes only some of your traffic. In practice if both your remote station and local computer are 'members' of the same ZeroTier network then they appear to be on the same local LAN. This guide assumes you have physical access to the machine you wish to install ZeroTier on.You should create a ZeroTier Account, and install the ZeroTier client on the machine you intend to use to connect to your remote station as per these
instructions .Now you need to create a ZeroTier 'network' for your devices to connect to - this is as simple as clicking on the
Create a Network button once you have logged in to ZeroTier. If you need help, have a look at the Getting Started guide (but stop before the step where you assign IP address ranges).You should now have a unique 16 character Network ID e.g.
255724d630f06682. Make a note of this as you will need it in the next steps.The next step is to deploy a ZeroTier container on your remote station, feel free to choose your own container, but in this example we will use this well maintained container with multi-architecture support by
bltavares.Open the
docker-compose.yml file that was created when deploying ultrafeeder. Append the following lines to the end of the file: zerotier:
image: bltavares/zerotier:latest
container_name: zerotier
restart: always
devices:
- /dev/net/tun
network_mode: host
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
- SYS_ADMIN
environment:
- net=host
volumes:
- '/var/lib/zerotier-one:/var/lib/zerotier-one'
Once the file has been updated, issue the command
docker compose up -d in the application directory to apply the changes and bring up the zerotier container.Open a shell inside the
zerotier container with the following command. sudo docker exec -it zerotier bash
and then join your network
zerotier-cli join xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the 16 digit ID of your network.
finally exit the shell with the command
exit
Now that your remote station has joined the network you need to authorise it. Logon to your ZeroTier account in a browser, click on the network you created earlier and scroll down to the
Members section. Check the box marked Auth for your remote station and take note of the Managed IPs Section.You can now use the Managed IPs to communicate as if your devices were on the same network.
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