1y ago

Raspberry Pi Connect: an easy-to-use way to access your RPi remotely, using just a web browser

www.raspberrypi.com

Just a moment...

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from anywhere on the planet, using just a web browser.
The poor astronauts on the International Space Station miss out on so much.
- They'll still find a way to connect.
  Our friends on Mars, on the other hand...
- https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geoip.png
Raspberry Pi Connect needs your Raspberry Pi to be running a 64-bit distribution of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that uses the Wayland window server. This in turn means that, for now, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 4, or Raspberry Pi 400.
At the moment, the Raspberry Pi Connect service has just a single relay (TURN) server, located in the UK. This means that if rpi-connect chooses to relay traffic, the latency can be quite high.
Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices.
- I miss the name "Raspbian".
- Meanwhile you could just set up all of it yourself and learn a couple of things along the way but instead rPi insists on giving its users training wheels for everything. I think it would be much more useful if they provided a dns service with dynamic ip handling.
  
  What's wrong with training wheels?
  Worst thing all these stupid guides do is not explain what the commands you are entering do.
I'm not sure what this offers vs just using any screen sharing method, or SSH, with a mesh VPN.
- I think it offers not having to know enough about each of those pieces to pick one of each and set them up.
  
  If you're using a Pi I don't see why you'd want to avoid learning Linux. Setting up and connecting to SSH servers is an essential skill for anybody doing anything on Linux that isn't purely desktop use.
  
  Under no circumstances should anyone have a device exposed to the Internet unless they have learned about all of those.
- The VNC server they previously bundled with raspberry pi os is not compatible with Wayland.
  
  Do you really need to use Wayland on the Pi?
- I'm guessing ease of installation/use.
Just use SSH.
- Yeah that won't work outside lan unless you vpn or something
  
  SSH jump host is the same as this. You still have to have a public available service somewhere, that's how routing works.
  
  Not true. SSH works over the open Internet just fine. It is simply an attack vector. Just like Pi Connect would be. So if both are attack vectors, go with the proven technology that is well documented as to how to prevent said attack.

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