I guess I'll explain my thinking -
We have a small factory which we're just now adding live monitors to at each department. These are driven by Raspberry Pis, basically just acting as dumb terminals (for now). There are just 5 departments. We don't have a local server, everything runs off our website. I need to be able to connect to each Pi to be able to update them, etc. We just have DHCP and I don't have the ability to set static IPs, so I'm at the mercy of whatever they get assigned to.
My thought was that it would be nice to be able to use the stock install of Pi OS with its native Connect, which is very easy to setup. If I could automate fetching/refreshing the IPs via a hypothetical Connect API, I could write scripts to SSH into each Pi and update configurations, etc.
I'm naturally lazy, so I was thinking it would be much easier to use something which comes with the native OS (Connect) rather than installing a package for reporting the IPs and/or using a 3rd party service to retrieve those IP.
I may be able to get our network guy to setup static IPs based on the MAC addresses, which renders this a moot point, but I figured I'd ask the question in case there was future use case for it.
We have a small factory which we're just now adding live monitors to at each department. These are driven by Raspberry Pis, basically just acting as dumb terminals (for now). There are just 5 departments. We don't have a local server, everything runs off our website. I need to be able to connect to each Pi to be able to update them, etc. We just have DHCP and I don't have the ability to set static IPs, so I'm at the mercy of whatever they get assigned to.
My thought was that it would be nice to be able to use the stock install of Pi OS with its native Connect, which is very easy to setup. If I could automate fetching/refreshing the IPs via a hypothetical Connect API, I could write scripts to SSH into each Pi and update configurations, etc.
I'm naturally lazy, so I was thinking it would be much easier to use something which comes with the native OS (Connect) rather than installing a package for reporting the IPs and/or using a 3rd party service to retrieve those IP.
I may be able to get our network guy to setup static IPs based on the MAC addresses, which renders this a moot point, but I figured I'd ask the question in case there was future use case for it.
Statistics: Posted by SaintPeter — Tue Dec 24, 2024 5:29 pm
