Blog ≫ 2015 ≫ Fixed my home networking issues

I've had problems with all of my raspberry pis (raspberries pi?) since I tried to give them all a static ip address. They've been visible on the network but have not been able to "see out", they can't reach out to the wider internets so can't read data that I sometimes need them to, and can't push data up to this website for example... Well now it's fixed! It was all down to a typo:

# /etc/network/interfaces
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    iface eth0 inet dhcp
    auto wlan0
    allow-hotplug wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.103
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gatweway 192.168.1.254

yes I mistyped gateway as gatweway and pasted it across all my machines, duh. Now this is working it means things like my home brew temperature graph is live again. Even though the brew is finished, and it's really monitoring the temperature inside the beer fridge:

At some point my home brew beer graph would have appeared here. I haven't done home brew for ages, it doesn't quite seem worthwhile, but maybe in times of austerity it will return.

There's a big gap there as I write this, because the pi couldn't connect to the internet so didn't have the right date / time.

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Paulʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married + dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, running, restaurants, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.