question

I have looked all over in the UI, and within VRM, I cannot find anything....but if you are a bit tech savvy, you can do this:

From what I am reading you can ssh into a non-rpi CCGX?

If that is so, you could easily setup a cron job to do something that would update the IP in some outside location.

here is an example of a cron job you could run and put it in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.daily

import urllib

import re

import smtplib

import sys

# Setup our login credentials

from_address = ''

to_address = ''

subject = 'CCGX IP'

username = ''

password = ''

# Setup where we will get our IP address

url = 'http://checkip.dyndns.org'

#print ("Our chosen IP address service is ", url)

# Open up the url, then read the contents, and take away our IP address

request = urllib.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')

# We extract the IP address only

ourIP = re.findall("\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}", request)

ourIP = ourIP[0]

print ("Our IP address is: " + ourIP)

def send_email(ourIP):

# Body of the email

body_text = ourIP + ' is our PlayPi IP address'

msg = '\r\n'.join(['To: %s' % to_address, 'From: %s' % from_address, 'Subject: %s' % subject, '', body_text])

# Actually send the email!

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')

server.starttls() # Our security for transmission of credentials

server.login(username,password)

server.sendmail(from_address, to_address, msg)

server.quit()

print ("Our email has been sent!")

# Open up previous IP address (last_ip.txt) and extract contents

with open('/data/home/root/last_ip.txt', 'rt') as last_ip:

last_ip = last_ip.read() # Read the text file

# Check to see if our IP address has really changed

if last_ip == ourIP:

print("Our IP address has not changed.")

# ucomment out this line next if you want to send email regaurdless

# send_email(ourIP)

else:

print ("We have a new IP address.")

with open('/data/home/root/last_ip.txt', 'wt') as last_ip:

last_ip.write(ourIP)

print ("We have written the new IP address to the text file.")

send_email(ourIP)