Moving an already adopted device to a new controller?

Alta Control
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I did post this in the routers section before realising it would likely be better here.

Hi,

We are testing the Alta Labs route10 routers and its working great. We are likely to start supplying these to various customers and as such want to manage these via our own local controller or possibly an Azure hosted controller.

My question is if we adopt the first few using the Alta Labs Web controller, is it possible to then remotely re-adopt those routers into a new controller? If so will doing so have any negative affects or will it just get moved? We are hoping this can be done remotely as well instead of using the setup prompt on the router. Maybe via the SSH CLi or something?

thanks!

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This is possible with the following steps:

  1. Make sure the device is not showing up in your target local controller
  2. Shift-Click on the Alta Device’s name in manage.alta.inc, and run these commands:
screen
echo https://$YOUR_DDNSID.ddns.manage.alta.inc > /cfg/domain.txt
rm /cfg/rcapi.txt
/lib/sh/factory-reset; reboot
  1. Delete the device from manage.alta.inc
  2. Click Set up on the local controller when the device shows up in the local controller
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Thanks for this!

If using our own local controller can we change the domain-name to anything of our choosing? for example https://ourlocalcontroller.company.com as long as the domain points obviously to the local controllers location?

Thanks again!

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Yes, as long as the controller is up and running on that hostname, you can use that hostname when setting up the domain.txt file.