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Internet of Things with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881381
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Understanding and Setting up the Base IoT Hardware 2. Working with Python on Intel Galileo Gen 2 FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with Digital Outputs with Python 4. Working with a RESTful API and Pulse Width Modulation 5. Working with Digital Inputs, Polling and Interrupts 6. Working with Analog Inputs and Local Storage 7. Retrieving Data from the Real World with Sensors 8. Displaying Information and Performing Actions 9. Working with the Cloud 10. Analyzing Huge Amounts of Data with Cloud-based IoT Analytics A. Exercise Answers Index

Retrieving the board's assigned IP address

The board has finished the boot process with the Yocto Linux microSD card and is connected to our LAN throught the Ethernet port. The DHCP server has assigned the board an IP address and we need to know it in order to run commands on a Yocto Linux console. There are many ways for us to retrieve the board's assigned IP address. We will explore the different options and you can choose the most convenient one based on your LAN configuration.

If the board is connected to one of the Ethernet ports of a Wireless router and we have access to the router's Web interface, we can easily know the IP address assigned to the board. Some router's Web interfaces display the wired clients list. As our board is connected through an Ethernet wire, it will be listed as one of the wired clients and the device MAC address will match the MAC address printer in the adhesive label on the board's Ethernet jacket. The following picture shows the Wired...

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