I use to use "nmap -sn 192.168.0.1/24" to find the IP address of my Pi box since it always change with my router after reflash new image. It works good in small set of devices like my home. :)
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Victor Palau <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, here in the office environment I can tell you that at least there > are 3 ubuntu-core devices :) Nice to know that there is one more work > around to try. > > But we need a more robust solution IMHO > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Loïc Minier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I agree this isn't great; I wanted to mention an old but still working >> workaround: mDNS. Snapweb should publish a snapweb.local mDNS record on >> your LAN, so ssh [email protected] should work. Note that this only >> works for one device at a time, so you want to change the hostname to have >> e.g. rpi3-xyz.local. >> >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Victor Palau < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an issue, and talking to a few people they had it too, where I >>> set up my user link to my sso via console -conf and failed to write down >>> the ip address of the box. >>> >>> Even having a keyboard and screen connected to the device (RPI2) does >>> not help to get access to the box, since I never had a chance to set up a >>> password. So I had to reflash the device and try again. >>> >>> My concern is that if I take the device somewhere else or I loose the >>> lease for that ip and did not set up a password, my only option would be to >>> reflash the device (if I dont have admin access in the network router i am >>> connected). This seems a bad user experience. >>> >>> Could we not at least have the ip address for the device always >>> displayed on the console login prompt. >>> >>> However, it still feels very fragile user experience >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Victor >>> >>> -- >>> Devices mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.snapcraft.io/mai >>> lman/listinfo/devices >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> - Loïc >> > > > -- > Devices mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.snapcraft.io/ > mailman/listinfo/devices > >
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