RPi Remote Station

[Epitaph]

Hi all!!

I am still very new to the whole world of Raspberry Pi, but enjoying the experience!!

I have a project I want to put in place and was wondering if anyone here would have a little advice on the best way to do it. I want to have an RPi set up on a monitor, and be able to access it from a PC and control it remotely. I'm trying first over a local network, but would like it later on to be remote over internet (one step at a time). The idea is to be able to control the RPi remotely to, for example, start up a video and have it playing on its own local monitor in full screen, and then access later on to change media.

I would appreciate any input anyone might have, because there is a lot of information out there, so much so that it seems a little overwhelming, and not sure which course would be best to follow.

Thanks!!

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi all!!

I am still very new to the whole world of Raspberry Pi, but enjoying the experience!!

I have a project I want to put in place and was wondering if anyone here would have a little advice on the best way to do it. I want to have an RPi set up on a monitor, and be able to access it from a PC and control it remotely. I'm trying first over a local network, but would like it later on to be remote over internet (one step at a time). The idea is to be able to control the RPi remotely to, for example, start up a video and have it playing on its own local monitor in full screen, and then access later on to change media.

I would appreciate any input anyone might have, because there is a lot of information out there, so much so that it seems a little overwhelming, and not sure which course would be best to follow.

Thanks!!

?? RealVNC Connect ?? https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/get-ba ... c-connect/

[Epitaph]

Thanks. I'll have a read on that blog and see how that goes

[Epitaph]

Thanks again for that information, it is a very good way I am finding. The connection is stable, the ability to connect from a smartphone is good too, I'm liking it a lot for my personal applications, which is between houses basically (family stuff like communicating with my grandfather at a distance who is deaf and can now read the screen easily and type back, things like that)

A friend with the typical dollar signs in his eyes was picking up on this to make some remote "kiosks" to install in places with publicity, and connecting remotely to update things that come on the machines. I see the VNC option does offer a paid commercial use which is quite reasonable I think for the price, especially seeing how well it works, but my friend is a little concerned, or maybe I should say obsessive with security. I think, from what I've seen of the program, it's pretty secure, especially considering they have made it with businesses in mind, but he was talking about SSH.

What would be the best option in this case, if we go ahead with it?

Right, I'm going to get back to trying to sort out other things, because I can't get the user name or password to change. I've had the password changed from "raspberry" to my own, confirmed, but when I log out and log back in to try it out, it won't accept the new one, instead only accepting the original "raspberry" one... I think I need to dig a little more to figure that one out, which isn't really a problem for my personal applications, but if we decide to go the kiosk route, I would need to have that figured out first hehehe

Ahhh... the joys of learning something totally different hehehehe