Banana Pi Cookbook

Book Image

Banana Pi Cookbook

By : Ryad El-Dajani

Book Image

Banana Pi Cookbook

By: Ryad El-Dajani

Overview of this book

Banana Pi Cookbook

Banana Pi Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installation and Setup

Installation and Setup

Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi

Setting up the SD card on Windows

Setting up the SD card on Linux

Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi

Administration

Determining the IP address and hostname

Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY

Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems

User maintenance

Searching, installing, and removing the software

Updating the operating system

Wireless network on the Banana Pro

External Disks

Mounting a USB drive

Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA

Mounting via fstab

Booting from an external disk

Networking

Sharing files over the network via Samba

Setting up a web application

Securing the Nginx web server using SSL

Synchronizing files over the Internet

Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC

Securing SSH using SSH keys

Setting up a UPnP media server

Using the GPIO Pins

Using the GPIO Pins

Lighting up an LED using the gpio command

Programming the LED

Using the GPIO input with a pushbutton

Multimedia

Configuring the audio device

Getting accelerated video playback

Setting up Kodi

Setting up an infrared remote control using LIRC

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

0

4 star

0

3 star

0

2 star

0

1 star

0

Determining the IP address and hostname

To connect to your Banana Pi via your local area network, you will need to know the IP address or the hostname of your device.

This recipe shows you how to find out the IP address and hostname of your Banana Pi.

Getting ready

The following components are required for this recipe:

A Banana Pi running a Linux system connected to your local network
A configured SD card containing a Linux distribution
A keyboard, mouse, and display attached to your Banana Pi

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to determine the IP address:

Initiate the booting of your Banana Pi and wait for the desktop to appear.
Start a terminal application such as LXTerminal.
Type in the following ifconfig command:
```
$ ifconfig eth0
```
This will output all the information of your Ethernet device (eth0), including the IP address, subnet mask, MAC address, and some additional information. The IP address is the value after inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (for example, 192.168.0.2).
Note
Do not confuse inet...