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SSH Troubles

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Make any midi controller portable.

isaac-wellishIsaac Wellish 09/27/2018 at 21:381 Comment

I've spent the last week attempting to SSH into the Raspberry Pi from my mac so I don't have to use a keyboard, mouse and monitor every time I need to access the pi. I have so far been unsuccessful. I'm using a USB Console Cable USB to RJ45 Cable to connect from the ethernet port of the pi to a usb port on my mac. When I connect the pi to my computer and power it up, I am not able to find the ethernet connection anywhere in my network settings on system preferences. I hopped onto the Adafruit Discord project help forum and got some great trouble shooting advice from user Greys. 

Looks like the issue is that the Pi is not configured by default to detect a console connection over ethernet. I may have to just buy a normal ethernet cable as well as an adapter if I want to continue with this set up. If all else fails I can grab a 

Once I can actually SSH into the pi, I'd like to next work on using a knob from any midi controller to switch between instruments on what ever vst if being used. Of course starting with Dexed :) . I'm also considering working on an external button or knob connected to the Pi GPIO pins to switch between instruments to be played with the midi controller. Updates to come!

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Isaac Wellish wrote 10/08/2018 at 17:55 point

Thank you!

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