Raspberry Pi - Find IP Address and Connect with SSH from Mac OSX

On Mac OS it is easy to find the find the IP address of a Raspberry Pi and connect to it with SSH. I had issues with the builtin network utility ( I think the’ve discontinued this at this point unfortunately ) so I ended up downloading a third party application. You might actually be better off using NMAP as an alternative to this though. One advantage of the scanner that I used is that it will automatically scan your current network and it automatically identifies which host is the Raspberry Pi ( probably based on MAC address ).

• Make sure that you are on the same netowrk (ex. same wifi network )
• Search for and download “Port Scanner” from the Apple App store.
• Run a scan by just opening the app ( this scanner scans the current network you are on and identifies which host is your Raspberry Pi )
• Open up a terminal ( built into MacOS, you can find it on the launch pad )
• Use the SSH command to connect to the IP of the host. ( see snippet below )
• Enter password

Example ssh command, swap for your user and IP address. ( default user is “pi” )

  ssh pi@192.168.0.231

Video Instructions

As you can see it is really easy to connect to and manage Raspberry Pi’s or other types of Linux hosts from a Mac running MacOS.