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RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER HOW TO
RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER INSTALL
RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER WINDOWS 10

This very well documented on the RPi website ( Link ) It is very small and can be set up to run on boot or you can SSH to the RPi and start the VNC Server just when you want to use it.

RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER HOW TO

If you are not using a Windows computer for your client or just wish to use VNC rather than RDP here is how to do it. RDP has a menu accessible by right clicking on the top most bar, the one with the RPi’s URL and Remote Destop connection in it.Ī very useful menu choice is “Smart Sizing’. Your RPi desktop should appear on your Windows desktop! Wait a few seconds for the screen to be transmitted………… Type the IP Address of you RPi in the Computer: fieldĮnter your RPi username and password whan asked (Pi/raspberry) You can run RDP by typing Remote in your Window’s search bar. XRDP will load when you restart your RPi without any further changes. Login to your RPi via SSH and run the following command:

RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER WINDOWS 10

I have found it in Windows 7 Professional and Windows 10 Home. RDP may not be available on all Windows platforms.

This is well covered in the linked page above but will go over the steps here so we have should the link go down. If you save the PuTTY’s SSH configuration you can easily come back to it, so long as the RPi’s IP address hasn’t changed. This will give you access to your RPi’s command line: The default RPi login is pi and the password is raspberry. Start PuTTY and enter the RPi’ ip address in the Host Name field, leave the port on 22, check SSH, click Open We will use PuTTy to access the RPi via SSH to set up the VNC. It is not really an install, just an exacutable file.

RASPBERRY PI VNC VIEWER INSTALL

Install PuTTy ( Link ) on your windows desktop. Note: You may want to increase the DHCP lease time so this address does not change. The Manufacturer will be ‘Raspberry Pi Foundation’. Now look in the results for the address of the RPi. I like to use a Windows program called Advanced IP Scanner ( Link ) it will display all of the IP addresses on your network.

Turn on your RPi and determine its ip address.

Whatever approach you take you will need SSH functioning. Secure Shell (SSH) allows you to access the RPi command line remotely. *** We will do this entirely headless, the only connection to the RPi will be the mico B USB for power. It does not require any modifications to make it load on boot and for now is my ‘go to’ remote application RDP ( Link ) works very well and has some advantages over VNC. I will not cover how to install it on your RPi as that is well covered in the link and it functions the same as the Tight VNC server described below. X11VNC ( Link ) is a VNC server that works with almost any VNC client such as the Tight VNC viewer. In the course of researching VNC, I stumbled on two alternatives X11vnc and Windows Remote Desktop, aka Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). This allows you to access your headless RPi, no monitor etc., from another computer over your home network as if you were sitting in front of the RPi monitor etc. It did not take long to find the answer on-line: Virtual Network Computing (VNC).

Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)Īs a new Raspberry Pi 3 owner I found having another monitor, keyboard and mouse to be just a little too much for my limited work-space.