You need to first make sure you are in Desktop mode (with the mouse and menus) before starting the VNC Server. Running the RealVNC Serverīack on the Raspberry Pi you need to start the VNC Server. You can download a suitable viewer from the RealVNC website. How you install that software depends on what sort of computer you have. To make use of VNC you will need Viewer software on another computer. Installing RealVNC on the Viewing Computer Where is the license key you obtained above. Use it to license your software by typing in the following on your Raspberry Pi: sudo vnclicense -add Once you have filled in the form you will see the license key, and it will be emailed to you. They are free for private use, and can be obtained from the RealVNC license page. To install the Server software, type the following into the terminal window, replacing the name of the file with the one listed when you extracted the software: sudo dpkg -i VNC-Server-5.2.bīefore you can use RealVNC Server you must obtain a license key. We are just going to install the Server software here. If you want to use the Raspberry Pi to view the screen of another computer, then install the Viewer software. ![]() If you want to just view the screen of your Raspberry Pi on another computer you only need to install the Server software. You will need these in the next step, which is to install the software. The next command will extract the viewer and server software from the file you have just downloaded above: tar xvf Īs the files are extracted you will see the Server and Viewer software file names listed. Here, curl is getting the latest RealVNC software version from the RealVNC website. ![]() The 'curl' command downloads the contents of a URL to your PC. To install the RealVNC on the Raspberry Pi, turn on your Raspberry Pi and type the following into a terminal window: curl -L -o ![]() While the basic VNC software is free, there are some additional features that require the purchase of a license, like encryption of the information between the server and viewer, better performance and support.Īs mentioned above, there are two parts to the Remote Access software the Server, which will run on the Raspberry Pi and serve the screen view to other computers, and the Viewer, which you use on other computers to view what is being shown by the server. One of the best VNC products from a company called RealVNC. They were founded by the inventors of VNC, and have made it available recently for the Raspberry Pi. VNC is free and open-source, so it will cost you nothing to use unless you want more advanced features. In this tutorial we are going to be looking at VNC, which is a cross-platform piece of software, which means it can run on a PC, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Android, IOS or Linux computers. In both cases you need a 'server' on the computer you want to access, and a 'viewer' on the computer you are using. Another way is to view the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the 'remote' computer. The most basic is from the 'command line', where all you can see is text in a window and you can only type into that window. There are a few different ways to do this. 'Remote Access' is a way of accessing one computer from the other.
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