SSH in to hydro-system 4

I have 3 hydro-sys4 Raspberry Pi Zero Non WIFI, running and was getting IP conflicts as they all used the same IP for some unknown reason ether this is a DHCP problem or I built all the SD-cards on the same PI 4 and they were exact copies and the configs were the same when I turned of the WIFI.

so using the hydro-sys4 forum, it’s a wealth of information and I have spent Meany a day reading the posts.

I needed to run them all on an ethernet cable rather than WIFI network as I have the networks segmented

Privet, work, home and security, Security has no Access points on it as It has critical system on there. That and we had the soler controller on the home network and my sone would go and check the battery’s and somehow turn off the inverter off so we had to change things a bit.

To get you up and running with static IP addresses

I am not Linux Wizkid I know enough to tinker and brake things and reinstall and start again, lol

Lets get started,

Power off the pi and remove the SD-card, Place it in to a card reader in to a pc and open the SD-card in file explorer. In the BOOT directory of the SD card right click and create a note pad document leave this Body blank.

Go to save as and save the name as “SSH” with the air quotation marks

This will create an SSH file in the boot directory

Unmount the SD-card and place it In the PI

Power on the RPI and let it boot, in the meantime open putty

Connecting to your PI from Putty make shore its looking at port 22 and type in the IP of the PI.

I use ipscan-win64-3.7.6 to check the network devices if I don’t know the IP of a device.

I use a Cheap eBay Ethernet to USB for the Pi so in the scanner it comes up as Real Tech Device.

In putty once the pi has booted type in the IP of the pi and a login will appear

Side Note: Using IP scanner you can check the IP and Mac Before this Setting the Static IP if you have loads of devices you can hunt the device Via Mac Rather than IP

User name: Pi

Password: hydrosys4password

Now once logged in

Cd /etc

ETC/Sudo nano dhcpcd.conf

This will bring up the config file where you can edit the static IP

Find the Static IP section and remove the # in front of the lines

Remember to change the IP setting to reflect your network mine is 192.168.1.xxx

Don’t forget to save the changes Ctrl X and then yes

Now reboot the pi

sudo reboot

Now jump on to chrome and type the IP you have set and log in to the GUI

This should work and now you can have lots of hydro sys servers running I have 3 at the moment running 3 poly tunnels.

I hope you find this useful