Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:15 pm
To control the remote Pi, to influence its temperature function, something like a web server or MQTT service may be appropriate.
For accessing the Pi's operating system, to keep it up to date etc, you could use Telnet, SSH, VNC, XRDP or similar.
I would also suggest Raspbian as probably the best choice to start with but any Pi Linux may do, Windows IoT and AndroidThings may be suitable, resin.io and the like may be more appropriate.