Welcome - MiniPiRack

Howdy! We’ve been waiting for you! Glad you made it!

Congratulations on your new MiniPiRack™!

What To Do Next

Unbox the MiniPiRack™. Everything you need to get started is included except for a network cable.
Connect the MiniPiRack™ to your router. You can use either ethernet jack on the back of the MiniPiRack™. (See note below)
Turn on the MiniPiRack™.

* NOTE: The LEDs on Ethernet ports will NOT light up! This is a known issue (Whoops!) and will be addressed in a future hardware revision. To see link status, check the six LEDs on the side of the MiniPiRack™. The two lower green LEDs indicate the link status of the Ethernet ports.

If you have you questions not answered here, check out the FAQ! or drop us a line.

Two very important numbers are included on the insert that’s included in the box with the MiniPiRack™:

Serial Number (format like XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX)
User Token (format like YYYYYYYY)

Don’t lose these! You’ll see how to use these shortly.

How to find the IP Addresses of each host in your MiniPiRack™
The MiniPiRack™ is a headless device by design. Each host ships with DHCP enabled for the ethernet port. It’ll take a little sleuthing to find the ip address of each host.

The host names of the hosts are:

p1-r1
p2-r1
p3-r1

The hostnames follow the format <pi one>-<rack one>, <pi two>-<rack one>, etc. Since the MiniPiRack™ is designed to scale, this naming convention allows for easily addressable racks as the cluster expands. Of course, like everything about the MiniPiRack™, this can be changed to what ever you’d like. It’s 100% customizable to your needs. It’s just Linux, after all!

If you are using OS X or most versions of linux, you might be able to find the IP address by pinging the hostname of one of the hosts with “.local” appended like so:

>> ping p1-r1.local
PING p1-r1.local (10.1.2.139): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.1.2.139: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.914 ms

If that fails, you can use the MiniPiRack™ auto-registration server to discover the IP address of each host. To use the auto-registration server, use curl along with the serial number and user token like follows:

curl http://register.minipirack.com/rack/<serial number>/?token=<user token>

For example:
curl http://register.minipirack.com/rack/0000000/?token=1234ABCD

The auto-registration server should return the current local IP address of each host.

Once you have the IP address of each host, you can ssh default credentials for the Hypriot OS:
Username: pirate
Password: hypriot

The ssh command to use is:
ssh pirate@p1-r1.local
– or –
ssh pirate@<ip address>

Note: The MiniPiRack™ auto-registration server is an optional convenience feature to help make discovering the IP addresses of the MiniPiRack™ quick and simple. If you would prefer to disable the auto-registration feature, refer to /etc/network/if-up.d/update_ip on any MiniPiRack™ host for more information or just delete that file.

Enjoy!