pombredanne / iplog

Log your IP address

IP Log

Small Flask website that displays the current IP address.

This IP address can be stored if the store parameter is present in the url.

An optional note parameter can also be provided, whic could be used to store the local IP address.

Usage

Help out a friend

Need to connect to a remote desktop to help a friend? Just provide him the link to your IP log install, and ask him to click on the "store" link and provide a small note for you to quickly find which IP it is.

Where's my Raspberry-pi?

By default, the Raspbian image has the network configured to grab an IP address using the DHCP. This means that when you start your RPi, it could have just any IP address.

To know which IP address it has, it could use the IP Log site to specify its local IP address (using the note parameter).

Here's how to do it in your shell:

curl "http://some.site.com/?store=true&note=`ifconfig|xargs|awk '{print $7}'|sed -e 's/[a-z]*:/''/'`"

There's a simpler solution that seems to work well on a Raspberry-pi:

curl "http://some.site.com/?store=true&note=`hostname -I`"

Add one of those two lines to the /etc/rc.local script, that is launched on each boot.

For more information and other tips regarding the Raspberry-Pi, check https://gist.github.com/magopian/7854957.