This topic is about remote control. It can cover SSH, security, and other topics related to the non-local control of the pi.
Questions tagged [remote]
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Find Raspberry PI address on local network
I need to find the Raspberry PI IP address on local network without connect the Raspberry to a monitor. How do I do it on Linux or Mac OS systems?
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I failed to remote connect to Raspberry Pi 3 from Ubuntu
I just bought raspberry pi 3 with Rapbian Jessi with Pixel and I have a Lenovo laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on it.
I want to remote connect to it from my laptop. I enabled the VNC server on Raspberry Pi and I tried to connect to it from either…
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How to login as root remotely?
I am trying to login to the raspberrypi as root user via winscp, but it only says "Access denied", same thing for trying to login directly as root on ssh.
I have tried loging in as pi and doing sudo passwd root, which results in the console output…
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How can my Raspberry Pi turn on/off my Samsung TV
I want to be able to turn my Samsung TV on (and off) the raspberry pi is hooked up to my TV via a HDMI cable.
My cousin already did this with other Tv and it worked, but with the Samsung seems not to work.
What is the easiest way to do this?
How is…
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Is there an IDE I could use to edit code from a personal computer over the network in real time?
I know it's possible to use FTP and various version control systems to upload or commit code developed on a full computer to the Raspberry Pi. Another possibility would be to simply use SSH and Vim (or Emacs).
Is there an IDE that supports…
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How to disable local terminal showing through when playing video
Any local terminal text (login prompt, etc) is showing through areas of the screen that are not covered by video (i.e. the black bars on the top and bottom) when I use a remote terminal to play video with omxplayer. If I wait 10-15 minutes, the…
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SSH - connection timeout when connecting
My RPi is running Raspbian. I am trying to get SSH set up.
I followed these steps to get a static IP on my Pi:
Since my PC was connected to the LAN via WiFi, I used ipconfig to get the IP address, gateway, etc. of my WLAN card
I used this data to…
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Cannot connect to RasPi by SSH with WiFi interface only
I'm observing really annoying issues with connectivity to RasPi on WiFi network. I have device connected on both LAN cable and WiFi. If both cable and WiFi dongle are plugged - both interfaces are working fine and I'm able to connect to RasPi…
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USB HID device only firing 1 event
I have a eDIO USB Multi Remote Controller( a Infrared Reciever) that came with ASUS PSR 2000 Web Surfing Remote Control.
I am trying to connect the Remote COntroller to my pi so that it recieves the keystrokes sent by the remote.
The controller is…
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Develop a Raspberry python script from a windows
I want to develop a Raspberry python script from the windows side, for several reasons:
I want to keep all the code (more) secure on my computer, in case I fry the RPi/try another project/reinstall the Pi.
Also my main computer with the two screen…
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How to have remote desktop on Macbook with Raspberry Pi?
I want to ssh into the raspberry pi from a mac and be able to run an application with a basic GUI.
SSH is already working and good. I thought it'd just be as simple as ssh -X myusername@mystaticip
Then I could launch my program via the command line…
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How do I figure out the brand and type of an SD-card on the commandline?
How do I figure out the brand and type of an SD-card remotely on the commandline via SSH? I so far tried:
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
gdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
dmesg | fgrep -i mmc (the boot entries were already rotated out of the ring buffer)
zfgrep -i mmc…
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How to display an image via ssh?
I have connected to my raspberry via ssh from another pc.
I would like to show an image that is on my raspberry to the screen of my PC.
I tried to follow the answer of this question by astrogeek.
Suppose my raspberry user is pi and the user pc is…
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Raspberry pi remote access active session
When I remote access the raspberry pi with software now installed I do not get to access the current session displayed on my tv, but rather a new session.
Is there software to access the current running session so I can use the keyboard and mouse…
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Is this the correct usage of rsync to create a Raspberry Pi backup?
Pardon my ignorance, I am a new user of this site, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi.
The following is a link to a question, from which I used user goldilocks' well documented answer of using rsync, to create my own rsync command to make a backup to a…
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