how to find raspberry pi ip

Fing: a Tool to Find What's on Your Network

Complex Networks

In camp situations, or in schools, you may have to handle a complex network. In those cases, it may happen that Fing will hide devices from you. Fing still finds them, but will add a number in parenthesis after the IP address to indicate that many devices are grouped together.

This implies that there are three devices hidden away behind this IP. Possibilities are that those devices are on another band (2.4GHz, while you're on 5 GHz), or they're connected to a different router, even though the routers talk to each other and exchange information. Multiple routers work seamlessly most of the time, but not always. If you "click" or "touch" this entry, you will be taken to a second screen, where all IPs will be listed under "More IP Addresses". Unfortunately, you are not given the hostname to go with each of those IPs, so this is of limited help.

Fing with complex network 2 Find Your Raspberry Pi IP Address

Should you have such a situation, the best way is to make sure that both laptop, cell phone with Fing, and Dex robot are on the same router. Fing will then list them properly, and networking will be easier for everyone.

What If Fing Never Displays My Robot?

If Fing never displays any information about your robot, you know for sure that your robot hasn't connected to your Wifi. You will have to get the Ethernet cable out, and look at the Wifi setup.

If you can, plug the Ethernet cable right into the router. Fing should find it then, and tell you which IP to use. In most cases though, this is not easy to do and you'll have to plug the Ethernet cable into the port on your laptop. Either way, you will have to look at the wifi setup on dex.

If you need to review the steps to set up the Wifi, we have written instructions for GoPigo. They are valid for all our products using Raspbian for Robots.

What If Fing Never Displays My Robot?

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