Simon Griffee · Time, light, movement & distance.

Connect to Raspberry Pi From an iMac

15 July 2014 · 1 minute read

  1. Install Raspbian OS image into SD card
  2. Slide SD Card into Raspberry Pi, then connect an ethernet cable from the Pi to your router and connect a power cable to the Pi (in my case the power cable is also connected to a USB port in the router for power)

  3. Install nmap on Mac to find out IP address of Pi on network and then SSH into the Pi:

    1. brew install nmap

    2. sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24

      :::bash
Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-07-15 19:27 CEST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.1
Host is up (0.0021s latency).
MAC Address: 78:6A:89:42:7A:76 (Unknown)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.3
Host is up (0.092s latency).
MAC Address: 00:88:65:3F:94:A8 (Apple)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.4
Host is up (0.0035s latency).
MAC Address: B8:27:EB:69:DC:41 (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.11
Host is up.
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 3.44 seconds

  4. ssh -X pi@192.168.1.4

  5. Setup VNC server on the Pi

    1. apt-get install tightvncserver
    2. vncserver
    3. vncserver :1

  6. And on the iMac.

  7. And from any device with a terminal in the same network, including an iPhone with an application such as Prompt: ssh -X pi@192.168.1.4

To be expanded with more details.

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