How to find your Raspberry Pi on the Network

Finding the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

Sometimes it can be difficult to find your Raspberry Pi on the network. One way of interacting with the Raspberry Pi is connecting a keyboard, mouse and monitor to it. The preferred method, however, is over SSH. For this, you will need to know the IP address of your Raspberry Pi.

This is a good tutorial on how to find the IP address.

Platform

Strategy

Mac / Linux

Nmap
The use of nmap on the Mac may require a software download.
Use nmap with the following command:
sudo nmap -sn <subnet>.0/24

Example: sudo nmap -sn 1-.4.148.0/24

Among other returned values, you will see:
Nmap scan report for ubuntu.silabs.com (10.4.148.44)
Host is up (0.00025s latency).
MAC Address: E4:5F:01:7B:CD:12 (Raspberry Pi Trading)

And this is the Raspberry Pi at 10.4.148.44

Arp
Alternatively, use Arp with the following command:
arp -a | grep -i "b8:27:eb|dc:a6:32"

Windows

In the command prompt, use nslookup to fnd your Raspberry Pi.
Example: nslookup ubuntu

Connecting to your Raspberry Pi over SSH

Platform

Strategy

Mac / Linux / Windows

Once you have found your Raspberry Pi’s IP address, you can use Secure Shell (SSH) to connect to it over the command line with the following command:
ssh <raspberry pi's username>@<raspberry pi's IP address>

Example:
ssh ubuntu@10.4.148.44
password: raspberrypi

When prompted provide the raspberry pi’s password, in the case of the Silicon Labs Matter Hub image the username is ubuntu and the password is raspberrypi