Remote Connection of Raspberry pi with Laptop

Remote connection of raspberry pi from your Laptop

Raspberry pi is  low cost and powerful  minicomputer, Its very popular among the makers, researchers and artist group. This mini computer comes with a HDMI port to connect it with the display unit. Most of the time its not possible for the developer or user to connect it with display unit this the HDMI port due to many constrain. For solving this issue i am providing you the step by step process to connect Raspberry Pi with Laptop or desktop with the help of VNC server and Putty.

 

 Step wise process for connecting Raspberry pi with Laptop

Step1-

Install tight VNC server on your Raspberry pi:

1.     Boot Up your Raspberry Pi and once you are on the desktop, open the terminal and type in the following command:

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

2.     Then, run the TightVNC server, which will ask you to enter a password(length must be less or equal to 8).

 The command to run the VNC server is:

  Tightvncserver

Now we need to run VNC server, type command in raspberry pi terminal

vncserver:1

Now you will be prompted to set password not more than 8 character.

Step2-

Enabble SSH in your Raspberry pi-

Secure shell (SSH) is a feature of Linux which allow you to open terminal of rapberryPi from the host computer.

1.     Type in sudo raspi-config in the terminal

then go to shh and press enter and select Enable or disable ssh server

That’s it! You’ve enabled SSH on your device.

Step3-

If you are Windows user then install PuTTY in your computer
if you are Mac user then install VNC viewer in your machine

 

How to use PuTTY:

1.     Download PuTTY

2.     PuTTY does not have a installer package, so just run it. You will get a screen like so:

*Get IP of your raspberryPi by typing command “ifconfig” on your Raspberrypi terminal

Ifconfig

3.     Type the IP address of the Pi into the Host Name field and click on the Open button.(To find out the IP address of the Raspberry Pi, type in hostname -I on the terminal in Raspberry Pi.)

4.     You will get a warning message like so(Don’t worry this comes just once):

5.     You’ll get a login prompt. Log in with the same username and password you use on the Raspberry Pi. (The default username and password for Raspberry Pi is pi and raspberry)

6.     You’ll now get screen of Raspberry Pi terminal in your machine.

7.     Type startx to see GUI of Raspberry pi