I am truly an idiot.
I am now looking at the piCorePlayer that's installed on an SD card I burned and is inserted in my Raspberry Pi. See screen shot for verification. Yesterday, when I had bothered all of you generous people saying I could not connect the RPi to my network and hooking up an HDMI monitor did not solve the problem, I had omitted one very important step. I had not connected the RPi to my router. What I did when I received the micro HDMI cable is I excitedly took my RPi and SD card to my most accessible TV and plugged it in and saw no connection in the display text. I tried other cards and no card with the same result. I thought I would see there a url with the RPi's network address. I had mistakenly understood that the RPi / piCorePlayer somehow would have a network address, I guess, imbedded or maybe it would automatically connect wirelessly. I had previously, as you know, tried to connect RPi to my network by ethernet cables into router sockets but with no HDMI display and could not see it on my list of devices connected to my network. Last night I shot upright in bed at 2:38 a.m. thinking what if the network address is only accessed if the device is plugged in - via ethernet - to the network? In other words it isn't something imbedded or gotten via a wireless connection. I should have taken the TV to the router and RPi not the RPi to the TV. So, this morning I took the smallest TV in the house to the router, hooked up RPi with SD card to the TV, ethernet to router, and turned all on and viola. I feel like a complete halfwit. I apologize to you all. My wife has reminded me for many years that I am the kind of person who has to have everything clearly spelled out. I always assumed she was just talking about things that she told me to do, to which I didn't give my full attention. No, I am thick. Be that as it may, I can now move on to the step: "Main page", scroll down to bottom of page and click the "Beta tab", dismiss warning." as kidstypike instructed way back at the beginning of this fiasco. I hope all goes smoothly now. Again, please accept my apologize and my gratitude. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Screen Shot 2021-07-10 at 7.11.50 AM.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35193| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ anglecard48's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71714 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
