I have a turtlebot here at work.
I am sick and tired of sshing into randomly assigned IP addresses. Luckily, there’s something called mDNS which allows you to reserve a hostname.local for your turtlebot. Instead of sshing to something like:
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ssh turtlebot@10.20.1.113[/pastacode]
You can ssh to:
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ssh turtlebot@turtlebot.local[/pastacode]
so easy you could make an alias in your bash_profile!
Here’s how you do it:
Always a good idea to get an update and then get the package:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon[/pastacode]
Then you need to make some changes on your turtlebot machine:
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sudo pico /etc/hosts
# edit the line 127.0.1.1 to whatever you want the name to be
127.0.1.1 ___NAME___
sudo pico /etc/hostname
# edit this file to the same name as above
___NAME___
# now you need to tell avahi to set a .local address
sudo pico /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
# uncomment the following line
domain-name=local
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Now just restart the service and reboot your computer!
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sudo service avahi-daemon restart
sudo reboot[/pastacode]