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Raspberry Pi headless setup

Started by fox, April 06, 2021, 01:01:38 PM

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fox

Here is a good, easy to follow article on how to set up your Raspberry Pi and run it headless.
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Jason

That's cool. Looks very beginner-friendly. One criticism though. For the love of God, don't use Putty. Linux already has a built-in SSH client and it's really not that hard to use. There's no need for putty. I believe Windows' Powershell also has ssh. Just type:

ssh pi@100.110.120.130

(substitute pi with whatever username you have if it's not the default and the actual IP address. You can also add an entry to /etc/hosts so that the IP address can be represented by something 'foxmulder' so you do:

ssh pi@foxmulder

The rest is fine although you can set up X-forwarding over ssh which may give you better performance than VNC. Somewhere there are presentation notes I gave on using ssh. You should also set up a static IP so that if your router is rebooted, you can still get into the Pi. I think my notes showed how to do this but you can google it. It's easy.

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fox

Thanks, Jason. Now that you mention it, I think I did follow your instructions when I set up my Pi to work headless. I was only doing it to play around and my Pi isn't connected to anything right now. I put it aside, but I'll have to get back to it.
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ssfc72

Thanks Fox for the Link to the RPi headless article. I have bookmarked it on my computer.
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ssfc72

Thanks Jason for your tip about using SSH on the RPi. I will have to fire up my RPi and try those commands.

Quote from: Jason on April 06, 2021, 01:32:46 PM
That's cool. Looks very beginner-friendly. One criticism though. For the love of God, don't use Putty. Linux already has a built-in SSH client and it's really not that hard to use. There's no need for putty. I believe Windows' Powershell also has ssh. Just type:

ssh pi@100.110.120.130

(substitute pi with whatever username you have if it's not the default and the actual IP address. You can also add an entry to /etc/hosts so that the IP address can be represented by something 'foxmulder' so you do:

ssh pi@foxmulder

The rest is fine although you can set up X-forwarding over ssh which may give you better performance than VNC. Somewhere there are presentation notes I gave on using ssh. You should also set up a static IP so that if your router is rebooted, you can still get into the Pi. I think my notes showed how to do this but you can google it. It's easy.
Mint 20.3 on a Dell 14" Inspiron notebook, HP Pavilion X360, 11" k120ca notebook (Linux Lubuntu), Dell 13" XPS notebook computer (MXLinux)
Cellphone Samsung A50, Koodo pre paid service

gmiller1977


Jason

* Zorin OS 17.1 Core and Windows 11 Pro on a Dell Precision 3630 Tower with an
i5-8600 3.1 GHz 6-core processor, dual 22" displays, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB Nvme and a Geforce 1060 6 GB card
* Motorola Edge (2022) phone with Android 13