Mobile Access

[johnjv]

Has anyone been able to access coder.local on a mobile device? I'm having no such luck on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus through the mobile Chrome app.

[jmstriegel]

Unfortunately, I don't think Chrome on Android works with mDNS. You'll have to find the IP address of your raspi device and connect directly to that without the friendly name.

I noticed that there are a few mdns browsers in the play store. I haven't tried them, but you should be able to use that to find the ip of the device, and then connect to the ip from chrome. For now, this would be the way to go if you don't have a screen connected to your Pi.

Side note - there's also the findcoder-appengine project in the repo. You can set that up on appengine and edit the config.js file on your coder to ping that server while it's running. It will allow devices on your network to have an easy way to discover the internal ip of your coder device. The only downside is that your coder device is pinging an outside server with its ip all the time, and you have to set up an appengine project to host this... sort of a cumbersome thing to set up the very first time.

[whinge]

I am constantly being told Arduino can only open and run its own programs even Lady Ada is not being recognised even when it is downloaded by Manager! I have now given up with Nexus as a side note!