digit.local nor IP address available

[Joe Tennis]

Curiouser and curiouser... Going along happy as a clam for several days - decoding lots of APRS, Gating my own traffic (from a different radio/APRSDroid combo) and was developing a line of questions along those lines when this morning I connected my antenna, started up the radio, fired up the Pi4 with Digipi on, and went to my browser and went to digipia.local like I've done for the past couple mornings, and:

This site can’t be reached

http://digipia.local/ is unreachable.

ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

I tried the IP address on the screen (10.0.0.15 in this case) too with the same result.

FWIW, I could get the iGate to come up by pressing one of the buttons on the wee screen, and that would accept local traffic and pass my APRS (SMS at least) from my HT/Phone. Obviously, I couldn't see what was going on as the domain host wasn't avail.

This is no big deal, and I was even thinking of starting from a clean, freshly Flashed card now that I know what's going on, but I'm wondering if you've heard of this before. Is there an easy fix?

I'd changed my password so feel pretty sure someone didn't jump in and lock me out... just not sure what would do that... I shut down politely - well, I did until this morning... 

[Scott Sheppard]

Should the url be http://digipi.local ??

No “a”

Scott Sheppard

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Decatur, GA 30033

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[Joe / KJ0TEN / NC]

thanks Scott - I should have been clearer - I meant to put a parentheses there explaining that I have changed my hostsNames a bit as I have multiple digiPis running on the same network: a digipiA and a digipiB, if you will.

[Craig]

Hi Guy's DigiPi will suggest your router provide DNS services for the hostname
you put in /etc/hostname, from then on, it's up to your router.  I suggest logging
into your router and look for the numeric IP address, then visit that.

It's kind of why I print the IP address on the little screen, and also on
any attached HDMI monitor.

To change the hostname, you need to edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts,
then also press [save configuration], then run wsjtx (or js8call) once, which
writes out a new .Xauthority file.

if it helps,
-craig
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[Joe / KJ0TEN / NC]

Just a followup/closure in case anyone has the same problem in the future:

The closest I can figure is that I have this Orbi WiFi extender in my house which is acting like a local router and assigning these 10.0.0.* addresses (IPv4? I don't rightfully know) and is a pretty random thing - sometimes reassigns mid session... 

So, if you lose connection to what DigiPi *thought* was its IP address when it started up, like Craig wrote before, check your router and what it's doing... I still don't understand it completely, but I'm developing a plan to understand it!