anglecard48 wrote: > I am truly an idiot. > > I am now looking at the piCorePlayer that's installed on an SD card I > burned and is inserted in my Raspberry Pi. See screen shot for > verification. > > Yesterday, when I had bothered all of you generous people saying I could > not connect the RPi to my network and hooking up an HDMI monitor did not > solve the problem, I had omitted one very important step. I had not > connected the RPi to my router. > > What I did when I received the micro HDMI cable is I excitedly took my > RPi and SD card to my most accessible TV and plugged it in and saw no > connection in the display text. I tried other cards and no card with the > same result. I thought I would see there a url with the RPi's network > address. > > I had mistakenly understood that the RPi / piCorePlayer somehow would > have a network address, I guess, imbedded or maybe it would > automatically connect wirelessly. I had previously, as you know, tried > to connect RPi to my network by ethernet cables into router sockets but > with no HDMI display and could not see it on my list of devices > connected to my network. > > Last night I shot upright in bed at 2:38 a.m. thinking what if the > network address is only accessed if the device is plugged in - via > ethernet - to the network? In other words it isn't something imbedded or > gotten via a wireless connection. I should have taken the TV to the > router and RPi not the RPi to the TV. > > So, this morning I took the smallest TV in the house to the router, > hooked up RPi with SD card to the TV, ethernet to router, and turned all > on and viola. > > I feel like a complete halfwit. I apologize to you all. My wife has > reminded me for many years that I am the kind of person who has to have > everything clearly spelled out. I always assumed she was just talking > about things that she told me to do, to which I didn't give my full > attention. No, I am thick. > > Be that as it may, I can now move on to the step: "Main page", scroll > down to bottom of page and click the "Beta tab", dismiss warning." as > kidstypike instructed way back at the beginning of this fiasco. I hope > all goes smoothly now. > > Again, please accept my apologize and my gratitude.So was the original issue > just that you didn't know the IP address of the Pi and connecting the monitor allowed you to find it? If so looking at devices connected to your router or using a phone app like Fing would also have allowed you to find it. I thought that was suggested earlier but maybe not.
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