Thanks in advance
Olly
Connecting a raspberry pi to a laptop no wifi
Hi in the summer I am going on holiday where there is no Wi-Fi or TV and the electricity is 12v and I want to be able to use my pi, I don't have a screen I could use other than a laptop. Would there be a way of using my laptop as a screen. On my laptop there are plenty of USB cables and a micro hdmi port but the hdmi port is output only so I cannot connect it through there, is there some way of making a wireless connection between the raspberry pi and the laptop (its a Lenovo yoga 11.6) using some kind of dongle and if so is it expensive. Or is there a cable which connects HDMI to USB.
Thanks in advance
Olly
Thanks in advance
Olly
Re: Connecting a raspberry pi to a laptop no wifi
Sounds like you want to use VNC.
A VNC server will be installed and run on your Pi and a VNC client on the laptop will then connect to it. The graphical desktop of the Pi is then displayed in a Window on your Laptop. Have search around here for "VNC" or ask Google.
For command line only work I would install Putty on the laptop and then you can log into your Pi using ssh and get a command line window on your laptop. That is how I use my Pis most of the time anyway.
All you need is a length of ethernet cable. Or get hold a WIFI router box and plug a USB WIFI adapter into the Pi. Then as long as you have power for your WIFI router (don't forget to take power plug adapters with you) you will have your own WIFI network where ever you go. Actually that is what I am doing right now whilst traveling over the Christmas break.
Finally get yourself a USB serial adapter. On that has 3.3v serial interface that you can connect to the serial port pins on the Pi GPIO header. Then you can talk directly to the Pi over that serial link which may be very useful if you need to tweak some configuration settings to get networking going. Without a keyboard and screen that is the only 100% reliable way to be sure you don't get locked out of your Pi.
Unless...be sure to take a SD card reader/writer with you and some back up Raspian SD cards.
Happy holiday!
A VNC server will be installed and run on your Pi and a VNC client on the laptop will then connect to it. The graphical desktop of the Pi is then displayed in a Window on your Laptop. Have search around here for "VNC" or ask Google.
For command line only work I would install Putty on the laptop and then you can log into your Pi using ssh and get a command line window on your laptop. That is how I use my Pis most of the time anyway.
All you need is a length of ethernet cable. Or get hold a WIFI router box and plug a USB WIFI adapter into the Pi. Then as long as you have power for your WIFI router (don't forget to take power plug adapters with you) you will have your own WIFI network where ever you go. Actually that is what I am doing right now whilst traveling over the Christmas break.
Finally get yourself a USB serial adapter. On that has 3.3v serial interface that you can connect to the serial port pins on the Pi GPIO header. Then you can talk directly to the Pi over that serial link which may be very useful if you need to tweak some configuration settings to get networking going. Without a keyboard and screen that is the only 100% reliable way to be sure you don't get locked out of your Pi.
Unless...be sure to take a SD card reader/writer with you and some back up Raspian SD cards.
Happy holiday!
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