🥧 Pi-connect

Connect to your Pi without mDNS

This module is built for connection to your raspberry pi without using mDNS. This is useful in cases where

You are setting up your pi in headless mode.
The IP address of your raspberry pi changes constantly.
Broadcasts do not work reliably on your network for mDNS.
Finding your pi's IP is time-consuming (No access to router / large subnet).

⚡ Quick start

Install

go install github.com/andylolu2/pi-connect

Usage

Set environment variables

Option 1:

Add MONGODB_URI=value to .env file.

echo 'MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://<connection_str>' >> .env

Option 2:

Set MONGODB_URI directly.

export MONGODB_URI='mongodb+srv://<connection_str>'

Option 3

Pass MONGODB_URI to command.

MONGODB_URI='mongodb+srv://<connection_str>' pi-connect postip

Help

pi-connect -h
# Posts and gets the ip address of the hosts to mongodb. Can be used to find the local ip address of raspberry pi in headless setup.

# Usage:
#   pi-connect [flags]
#   pi-connect [command]

# Available Commands:
#   completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
#   getip       Get the specified host machine's ip address from a mongodb document.
#   help        Help about any command
#   postip      Post the host machine's ip address to a mongodb document.
#   ssh         Start ssh session to the specified host machine's name.

# Flags:
#   -h, --help   help for pi-connect

# Use "pi-connect [command] --help" for more information about a command.