sep33Sep 13, 2025

Situation: you dont have monitor and peripherals, nor an Ethernet cable (another fun solution), but you know your #raspberrypi and your laptop are on the same network (or will be…) you can use #avahi on the pi to advertise itself on the local network as HOSTNAME.local.

Practically, this means once set up, you don’t need to know the current #ip of the Pi to be able to #ssh in.

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@sep33 Or run a service at system startup that sends a message via pushbullet or pushover that has the Pi's IP address

#raspberrypi

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@bls yeah, there are a bunch of ways to do this involving various services. I have my class use #systemd to push the IP to GitHub, but it’s not secure. An AWS instance would also work, but same security problems.
Sep 14, 2025 at 12:43amMastodon for iOS
Show threadblsSep 14, 2025
@sep33 Ah...class...that's new news! You could put a small LCD on each Pi that displayed the IP address, or blink the IP address in the lights. Using MDNS (avahi) works altho problematic if multiple classmates pick the same hostname
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@bls true, but each #raspberrypi has a unique host name. Ultimately, the students are modeling #installation artists so this is part of the preparation and troubleshooting for if/when the installation breaks and they need to remote in to fix things. Screens are not part of the configuration - no additional hardware is allowed :) (and not just because we lost our funding…)
Show threadblsSep 15, 2025
@sep33 if they have different host names then you're good. I was assuming the worst, esp since you mentioned "my class" 🤣