- @david
Hi, I've used the Tinypilot so far and it worked fine. Yesterday, I bought a 2 new ones and I tried to change the hostname of it. It showed me an error but now for some reason all three Tinypilots are not working. Can you please help me to resolve this issue?
David @david2024-11-04 12:22:50.493ZHi @sherif, I'm sorry you're no longer able to connect to your devices.
I think the simplest solution here would be to disconnect all of your TinyPilot devices from the network and then:
- Pick one TinyPilot device
- Reflash its microSD card to return it to factory settings (to make sure its hostname is the default
tinypilot) - Boot the device and access its web interface
- Change its hostname
a. If there's an error changing the hostname, could you take a screenshot of the error to share with me? - Confirm you can access the device's web interface from the new hostname
Once you've confirmed a device is working and accessible under its new hostname, you can add new devices to the network by repeating the same process. If you leave the known-working devices connected to the network, that may help avoid any edge cases when introducing the next device to the network (like hostname clashes or IP address assignment).
I hope that helps!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
- RSheriff @riff
I successfully executed steps 1-3 however, I experienced an error in changing the hostname.
- RIn reply toriff⬆:Sheriff @riff
Hello @david. the web interface works (still does ) . I was able to change the name however, I can't ssh to connect it to tail-scale. Using ssh pilot@systemname.local in the terminal of my mac runs nonstop without showing that it successfully connected (i.e. pilot@systemname:~ $). How can I fix this ?
David @david2024-11-07 12:05:01.726ZI'm sorry you're unable to log in with SSH, @riff.
It's worth double-checking that your device has SSH enabled (you can check this in TinyPilot's System > Security menu). However, from your description, it sounds like the issue could be that your Mac can't find your TinyPilot on the network via its hostname when using SSH.
If you have access to the TinyPilot web interface, could you navigate to System > Networking > Status to find your device's IP address?
Once you have the IP address, could you try logging in via SSH using the IP address, rather than the hostname?
# Replace the IP address with your device's IP address. ssh pilot@192.168.0.1I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.
- Progresswith handling this problem
- David @david2024-11-06 12:15:28.011Zreplies toriff⬆:
Thanks for the update @riff! I'm glad you're up and running with multiple device now.
Feel free to reach out again if you have any questions.