Thanks Mulburg. My computer is not plugged into the router but I can plug the Pi into the router. I can also connect the monito, keyboard, and mouse into the Pi.
I saw that address in the instructions but I thought all the IP address were dynamic.
Sometimes devices will have a management IP that’s static out of the box. Mainly because there might not be an easy way to tell what the dhcp IP will be. In your case, it‘s going to be easy once you hook up your keyboard and monitor.
You may want to reconfigure the pi to static anyway. I make all my machines static so a reboot on a powerfail ends with all the machines with the same address. dhcp can be a bit of pot luck depending on timing. To find the current address, just do a "ifconfig -a" at the command line and look for the number after the inet: Of course all this assumes you are running ipv4 not ipv6!
v4 is the "old" networking method. Allowed up to 4 billion devices on the network. More than anyone thought was necessary back in the 60's. Of course now, billions is nothing. So ipv6 came out in the 1990's I think, and adoption has been very slow. My ISP offers it, as do many others. In the US though, most configure their side of the network as v4 and use nat to allow multiple devices on their one v4 global address. But with v6, nat is not necessary. It offers 2**64 addressable objects on the network. I think my ISP gives me a 65K unique ipv6 addresses as an example of the numbers. Whereas on V4, I get one and my router handles my multiple devices on my LAN going out to the WAN internet. Unless you run ports visible outside, it usually is not something people encounter.
I just thought of this.
Volumio comes with a hotspot built in.
From the Quick Start guide:
"
2. Wireless Network with VOLUMIO HOTSPOT: If your device has wireless capabilities (and a supported Wireless card) Volumio will create a Wireless network.
Name: Volumio Password: volumio2"
Worth a try.
Volumio comes with a hotspot built in.
From the Quick Start guide:
"
2. Wireless Network with VOLUMIO HOTSPOT: If your device has wireless capabilities (and a supported Wireless card) Volumio will create a Wireless network.
Name: Volumio Password: volumio2"
Worth a try.
A pi is capable of this builtin. But I think if you use it that way it will not hook up to your network. I use a couple of pi's in bridge mode to extend my wifi outside. To do this you connect the wired ethernet port of the pi to your network and then use a package called hostapd that configure the wifi of the pi to act like a wifi access point. But when it is an access point the wifi is an incoming connection point for other devices and will not make an outgoing connection point. Also I strongly suggest changing any default wifi passwords. A recipe for being compromised. I even change the pi default login credentials on all my pi's and they are on the inside of my firewall. The amount of probing that goes on to compromise systems is staggering. Think seconds before an attempt will be made by someone in the world. So even before you put anything on the interwebs, you should change default passwords. Really anything on the open internet should be configured fully before it is connected.
Maybe I just get lost easily, but if you get up to the office today and don't get success, it might be good just to lay out what you have (manufacturer, model number good but not super critical) and how you have (or want) them set up, like this:
Office:
Cable Company internet modem --connected to --> Cable Company Router (or like mine, an all in one modem/router/wireless access point)
Windows desktop - connected by Ethernet cable
Mobile Phone:
iPhone (?)
Android (?)
Downstairs:
Windows Laptop - connected by WIFI (2.4 or 5 if known).
iPad (?)
Mac (?)
Music Room:
Volumino Pi - unknown (but no Ethernet in the room for final configuration).
Office:
Cable Company internet modem --connected to --> Cable Company Router (or like mine, an all in one modem/router/wireless access point)
Windows desktop - connected by Ethernet cable
Mobile Phone:
iPhone (?)
Android (?)
Downstairs:
Windows Laptop - connected by WIFI (2.4 or 5 if known).
iPad (?)
Mac (?)
Music Room:
Volumino Pi - unknown (but no Ethernet in the room for final configuration).
I flashed the SD card with Volumio and got the Pi hooked up to the net with monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I went through all the files in Pi and don’t see Volumio.
I use moode instead but the set up is similar. I think you are skipping the step of connecting to the pi via the hot spot wifi network volumino creates on first boot. from a (different) computer that has WIFI you can access the network using the ID and password in the set up guide.
I did everything you are doing until I worked out the missing sentence in Moode Audio's instructions. From a different computer, was the part I was missing.
Once I learned to connect to the WIFI network created by the pi and access the device by the given IP address, set up became so easy.
The newest Rpi imager can even make moode setup more simple
Once I learned to connect to the WIFI network created by the pi and access the device by the given IP address, set up became so easy.
The newest Rpi imager can even make moode setup more simple
I seem to remember reading something like that. I'll have to get back into it when I'm off work. The weird thing is I flashed Volumio ion the mini-SD, but I can't find it on the Pi when I put the SD in it.
I'll do a step by step read through of the Volumio instructions.
I'll do a step by step read through of the Volumio instructions.
That is a good idea. I just searched for the quick start guide. Seems like it would be an easy set up. Good luck
I figured out why I couldn’t get it working before. I had it connected to my Schiit DAC and couldn’t find it with my phone. Turns out I didn’t have WiFi there. Today I installed a NEST and now I have strong WiFi there.