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First in what I suspect will be a long series of posts about software that you just have to have either on your Pi or on your PC in support of it. I work on Windows, so if you’re on a Mac, the software may be available for you too, but I haven’t looked for it.

First up is the Advanced IP Scanner which is a free network utility to scan a range of IP addresses and tell you various pieces of information about them, including their network name.

This is vital for those of us who use the Pi ‘headless’ (aka without-a-screen) and don’t always know the IP address we’ve been assigned. When a network uses “DHCP”, the IP address you are assigned can vary and the Advanced IP Scanner will scan the network and show you what IP address your Pi has.

And yes, that was a lot of semi-repeated text, just in case someone is searching for information and not using the exact wording one is expecting!