Raspberry Pi Remote Desktop Connection

Dear friends welcome to another Raspberry Pi tutorial! This is Nick from educ8s.tv and today I am going to show you how to connect to your Raspberry Pi remotely using Remote Desktop on Windows. Let's start! If you want to make some serious work on the Raspberry Pi, like writing code, or even a simple document, you have to connect a keyboard, a mouse and a display to it. This option is not very tempting because it is time-consuming. Another option I showed you some time ago, is to connect to your Raspberry Pi using SSH remotely but you have to use the command line only. Again this option is not very tempting for everyday use. Luckily, there is another option, to use Remote Desktop and connect to the Raspberry Pi from your computer and have the standard GUI of the Raspberry Pi. Your Raspberry Desktop UI will live in a Window and you will be able to use your PC and the Raspberry Pi at the same time! Cool! Let's see how to achieve that. I am going to use the Raspberry Pi 3B+ today but this procedure works on any Raspberry Pi board. I made a fresh install of the Raspbian OS on my Raspberry Pi. Now, we have to update the system. Open the terminal the type the following two commands: 1. sudo apt-get update 2. sudo apt-get upgrade These commands will update the software of the Raspberry Pi to the latest version. Now, all we have to do is to run three more commands and we are ready. Run the following two commands: 1. sudo apt-get install xrdp 2. sudo apt-get install tightvncserver That's it. After a couple of minutes, all the needed software is installed and we are ready to use the Raspberry Pi from the Desktop computer. All we have to to do now is to note down the local IP address of the Raspberry Pi. One way to find the IP address is to type the command ifconfig in the terminal. That's it, that's the IP address of my Raspberry Pi on my local network. Now let's go to the desktop computer. I am using Windows 10, but this procedure works on other operating systems as well, you just need to use the right software. In Windows 10 we just run the built-in Remote Desktop app. We enter the local IP address of the Raspberry Pi we press connect and we are connected to the Raspberry Pi! All we have to do now is to log in to it. I am using the default user name and password. Username “pi”, password “raspberry”. After a few seconds, the Raspberry Pi desktop appears! Cool, we can navigate around, and use it just like we were connected physically to it. The cool thing is that I can quickly return to my Windows desktop, work on something and get back to the Raspberry Pi. For best results, connect the Raspberry Pi to the network using an Ethernet cable and not with WiFi. This way, the speed of the Remote Desktop connection will be good enough to use it for serious work. I am using this feature all the time when I need to work on the Raspberry Pi and I hope that you find it useful as well! Thanks for watching this tutorial, I will see you next time!

Channel: educ8s.tv

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Keywords: ssh, remote desktop, Raspberry Pi, mini computer, tutorial, Python, setup, Raspbian, robotics, arduino, sentdex, educ8s, educ8s.tv, raspberry pi, haus-automatisierung.com

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Length: 3min 26sec (206 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2019