I'm after advice which may be judged not really relevant to FR24/Pi but it is relevant to me!
My Pi runs Dump1090 and the FR24 software and uploads and all of that is hunky dory. I have a 7" HP7 G2 Tablet which I use as a screen. It's Android 4.4. Most of the time it's shows me port 8080 from the Pi so I can see what's about, or 8754 so I can see what's working. It's also used occasionally for VNC Viewer on 5900 to connect with vino on the Pi - but mostly I use a macbook for that. It's all local ports in other words.
So all the data I want is bouncing back and forth from the Pi to the tablet via the router. That's all fine.
What isn't fine is google/android which is seriously annoying in the amount of time it spends contacting the outside world for updates, unactivated cloud stuff, unactivated everything else stuff, pointless garbage, NSA/GCHQ updates and so on. So what I want to do is set things up so the Pi and the tablet can have little chats with each other locally and that's it.
The networking options available on android are minimal or less, the google apps can't be stopped or blocked or removed (there's little else on the tablet), and so I'm stumped.
My router is a pretty normal Netgear DGN2200 which offers options to block devices but I can't see a way of allowing a device local access while terminating its access to the outside world. I've looked at VPN but I'm not sure how that would be implemented on the Pi to allow it to still connect to the FR24 servers.
If anyone can suggest a simple way I can set things up the way I want them I'd be grateful - but please be aware I'm a network novice so speak slowly and gently.
Thanks.
(Oh, and please don't suggest bluetooth anything. My Pi is a generation first Model B and only has two USB ports - one is for the ADSB dongle and the other the wifi dongle. I don't want to use a hub because of power supply problems etc - I've been through that already and the Pi really isn't up to it the poor dear.)
My Pi runs Dump1090 and the FR24 software and uploads and all of that is hunky dory. I have a 7" HP7 G2 Tablet which I use as a screen. It's Android 4.4. Most of the time it's shows me port 8080 from the Pi so I can see what's about, or 8754 so I can see what's working. It's also used occasionally for VNC Viewer on 5900 to connect with vino on the Pi - but mostly I use a macbook for that. It's all local ports in other words.
So all the data I want is bouncing back and forth from the Pi to the tablet via the router. That's all fine.
What isn't fine is google/android which is seriously annoying in the amount of time it spends contacting the outside world for updates, unactivated cloud stuff, unactivated everything else stuff, pointless garbage, NSA/GCHQ updates and so on. So what I want to do is set things up so the Pi and the tablet can have little chats with each other locally and that's it.
The networking options available on android are minimal or less, the google apps can't be stopped or blocked or removed (there's little else on the tablet), and so I'm stumped.
My router is a pretty normal Netgear DGN2200 which offers options to block devices but I can't see a way of allowing a device local access while terminating its access to the outside world. I've looked at VPN but I'm not sure how that would be implemented on the Pi to allow it to still connect to the FR24 servers.
If anyone can suggest a simple way I can set things up the way I want them I'd be grateful - but please be aware I'm a network novice so speak slowly and gently.
Thanks.
(Oh, and please don't suggest bluetooth anything. My Pi is a generation first Model B and only has two USB ports - one is for the ADSB dongle and the other the wifi dongle. I don't want to use a hub because of power supply problems etc - I've been through that already and the Pi really isn't up to it the poor dear.)
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