Claim a receiver that is already feeding
Until today, becoming a Skydex station worked in exactly one order. You signed in, pressed Register, we handed you a UUID, and you pasted it into your feeder's config. Anything arriving with a different id, or with no id at all, was welcome traffic and nothing more. It helped coverage, it counted toward the aircraft the network sees, and it earned the person running the antenna absolutely nothing: no station page, no uptime, no range, no badge on their profile.
That was a gap we could afford to ignore while every feeder came from our own instructions. It stops being affordable the moment the first image sets us up on its own. Feeder images generate a UUID per network, locally, without asking anyone. So a person who flips a Skydex switch in an interface we don't control sends us an id we have never seen, and under the old rules there was no way for them to ever connect that stream to their account. The only fix was to know, somehow, that they had to overwrite the id their own software had generated. Nobody would know that.
So /feed learned a new answer. Press "Check my address" and, if something is arriving with an id no account holds, the page now says so plainly and offers a button. One click and that receiver is yours: it keeps its id, nothing on the antenna changes, no config is edited, and every day it has already recorded comes with it. The history was never lost, it was simply unattached, sitting in our daily rollups under an id with no owner.
The proof we ask for is the address, not the id. We bind only streams our ingest can see arriving from the same network you are browsing from, which means a UUID pasted into a forum thread while asking for help is not enough to take somebody's station. Two honest limits come with that. People sharing one public address, behind carrier NAT or an office router, can claim each other's unclaimed receivers. And if your browser is on mobile data while the Pi is on home broadband, the check cannot match you, so the button will not appear until you ask from the same network.
Two smaller things changed alongside. The check used to answer "already credited to an account" for any stream carrying an id, whether an account actually held it or not, which told exactly the wrong thing to the people this feature exists for. It now separates the two. And if several unclaimed receivers feed from one address, we refuse to guess which one you mean and ask for the id instead, because the wrong guess binds the wrong box to your account and spends one of your five slots on it.
If you already run a station with us, nothing here affects you. If you have been feeding anonymously, or from an image that made its own id, the page will now tell you what your antenna has been quietly building.