What's my new printer's IP address?

OS X

If you're on a network with Mac computers, the new Robo C2 printer does a good job of advertising its name to the network with a Bonjour-like method. So if you were trying to connect to the Raspberry Pi 3 computer inside, you'd look at the serial number on the label on the back and then use something like ssh to connect using the serial number as the hostname from the Terminal:

Code:

ssh pi@serial-number.local

Since the software advertises in a method that OS X understands, this should work out and without knowing the IP address.

Windows

For those whose computers don't do Bonjour (Windows), then it sounds like people have to deduce the IP address that was issued by their router for the new printer.

Fortunately, Adafruit makes a Pi Finder application which can help. If you haven't used the Robo's LCD screen to connect to your wi-fi yet, you'd need to connect your printer via an ethernet cable initially to get things going.

Download the Adafruit-Pi-Finder software. More info.

 

The Fing app does all the network searching you need. https://www.fing.io/

Note that Bonjour is available on Windows and installed by default along with iTunes, so anyone who uses an iOS device will have it already.