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Find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

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Find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

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- I was working on a project at my friend's cabin. The Raspberry Pi was in a waterproof container with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor attached. I planned to communicate with the Raspberry Pi using VNC or SSH on a separate computer, but I realized that, on my friend's network, I didn't know the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and I couldn't communicate with it over the network. This week let's look at ways to discover the IP address of a Raspberry Pi on the network. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross and welcome to this week's edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. Every week we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. There are lots of ways to do this and let's start from what I think is the easiest. Be aware that some of these may not work depending on your network configuration. If you don't get the IP address using one method, try the next. Let's start with a simple 'ping'. 'ping -4 raspberrypi' 'ping' reaches across a network…

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