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Network Configuration

This section covers the network configuration of the FruitNanny which is one of the more complicated topics.

Connect to Home WLAN

The accessing device only needs to be in the same local network as the FruitNanny in order to use the web UI. This meas if the FruitNanny is later connected to the local home WLAN, the web UI can accessed from any device in the home network.

  1. Select Network via the app main menu in the top left corner.
  2. Go to the WLAN tab and select the network of choice.
  3. You will be prompted for the password.
  4. Connect your device to the same WLAN and go back to your browser within 60 seconds. Wait for the connection to be established.

Note

FruitNanny implements a safety mechanism to avoid you locking yourself out of your FruitNanny when changing network settings. A checkpoint is created before any change in network configuration is performed. This checkpoint will automatically rollback any change after 60 seconds. This means, if you have messed up the your configuration, do not worry, your FruitNanny will be back after one minute.

The web UI will try to clear the checkpoint. This is only successful if your device is able to connect to the FruitNanny after the network settings were changed.

SSH Access – Advanced

The FruitNanny can be access via SSH with the standard Raspberry Pi method as user pi. It is recommended to use public key authentication instead of passwords.

User pi has password-less sudo access. It is important to run no service as user pi.

# Connect to FruitNanny
ssh pi@fruitnanny.local

Using IP Addresses

If for some reason mDNS does not work in your network or on your device which means your device is not able to resolve fruitnanny.local, this section describes how to use IP address to connect to the FruitNanny.

Most of the time, your network router will assign an dynamic IP address to the FruitNanny. This means, the address can change over time. The dynamic address can be determined via DNS service discovery (DNS-SD). This is a list example apps for different mobile platforms:

Browse the .local domain for _http._tcp services. The FruitNanny should be available as FruitNanny Web UI.

Last update: May 29, 2020