Raspberry Pi to Laptop

[Black Scythe]

If I plug the raspberry pi to my laptop will it erase everything on my laptop?

[morphy_richards]

Only if you have evil hamsters with wings and pointy teeth.

[Black Scythe]

So no

[Black Scythe]

now how exactly do I connect my raspberry pi to my laptop ii followed the instructions but I'm not getting anything

[Joe Schmoe]

now how exactly do I connect my raspberry pi to my laptop ii followed the instructions but I'm not getting anything

What are you trying to achieve?

I've never connected my Pi to a laptop.

[Black Scythe]

What I am trying to do I plug my raspberry pi to my laptop so I have a screen keyboard and mouse all in one instead of getting a separate screen keyboard and mouse.

[Joe Schmoe]

What I am trying to do I plug my raspberry pi to my laptop so I have a screen keyboard and mouse all in one instead of getting a separate screen keyboard and mouse.

There is no way to do this at the "electronics level" - i.e., you can't just plug it in (to your laptop) and have it work as if you had a regular USB keyboard and USB mouse and HDMI video monitor. I think that some of the extant "instruction" web sites/pages imply that it is possible - these sites do everyone a disservice.

Instead, what you will need to do is get the Pi working and install something called "x11vnc", then run "vnc" viewer on your laptop to connect. Details on how to do this are available elsewhere on the forum, but the fact is that you will probably need to get and hook up the regular USB keyboard, USB mouse, and HDMI video monitor - in order to get it (x11vnc) working.

[morphy_richards]

Not entirely sure about this as I haven't done it before but in theory you could set up your pi by plugging it into your laptop's Ethernet port with a short patch cable like the one you might get supplied with your home internet router. This is assuming you have created an sd card and put the raspbian image on it and put it in the pi.
http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
Switch it on and wait for a while then on your laptop get a command prompt (windows) or a terminal (mac) and type ping raspberrypi
That should tell you its ip address.
You could then install putty on your laptop which will then give you a basic text interface to do the rest of the setting up. http://www.putty.org/

After you have done that you can use x11vnc to connect to it with graphics.

If ping doesn't work you could also try nmap to find out the pi's ip address
http://nmap.org/download.html
Edit - actually on second thoughts I would plug your pi into your internet router not to the laptop itself.

[blueexpert11]

This might help:
http://pihw.wordpress.com/guides/direct ... onnection/

[brettliff]

Not entirely sure about this as I haven't done it before but in theory you could set up your pi by plugging it into your laptop's Ethernet port with a short patch cable like the one you might get supplied with your home internet router. This is assuming you have created an sd card and put the raspbian image on it and put it in the pi.
http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
Switch it on and wait for a while then on your laptop get a command prompt (windows) or a terminal (mac) and type ping raspberrypi
That should tell you its ip address.
You could then install putty on your laptop which will then give you a basic text interface to do the rest of the setting up. http://www.putty.org/

After you have done that you can use x11vnc to connect to it with graphics.

If ping doesn't work you could also try nmap to find out the pi's ip address
http://nmap.org/download.html
Edit - actually on second thoughts I would plug your pi into your internet router not to the laptop itself.

you're talking about remote access vpn and its extremely common. once raspberrypis are set up a majority of them never see a screen or keyboard/mouse again, all remote. all you have to do is get a jelly keyboard that you can roll up and stick out of the way when your not using it for 5USD (no way around this, this websites buying guide even said its a requirement in or to be able to set it up) so to the OP; next time you buy something, see what you need to use it, i.e, batteries not included.

go to your pi, open the terminal, type ifconfig and get your ip address. then go to dash>remote desktop sharing>enable desktop sharing.

go to your windows machine or virtual machine>open up remote desktop connection>type the ip address in and hit connect.

also you can just turn pi into xbmc server, download that os, theres an app for android and iphone that allows you to control it with a on screen mousepad and keyboard just like using the celphone first.


i'm using a type B for my media server running xbmc with a WD1TBMBL and a type a running my streaming camera in the kitchen 24/7/365

[mwrich4]

Maybe they had seen the Motorola Lap Dock setup.

I got hold of one for $50. Nice 1360 x 768 LCD HDMI display with sound, plus USB Keyboard, trackpad, hub, battery with external charger and still extremely thin.

[explainer]

If your pi is on the network, then you should be able to use something like putty or vnc to access the pi by its ip address. But, before that can work, the pi must have enabled 'remote desktop sharing', which I have yet to find in my pi. I tried looking for 'dash' as described above, and all I got was a terminal window, so the mystery deepens.

In other debian-based Linux systems, like Ubuntu, there is a settings or system-settings app that can be used to toggle options, but I have not yet found the raspbian equivalent. If anyone has a clue, I would appreciate it.

I had to buy both a usb keyboard and a usb mouse in order to get my new raspberry kit set up, both of which are bigger and cost more than the pi! Once I get remote desktop sharing working, that keyboard and mouse go into the parts drawer.

[explainer]

I just found this:http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rasp ... c/overview, which I used to get my pi accessible from my desktop machine. It worked fine.