Raspberrypi to Windows connection

The steps to connect raspberrypi to Windows pc using an ethernet is described here. Once the connection is setup you can use your laptop's keyboard and monitor to connect to pi. cool :)

The steps assume that raspberrypi already has internet connectivity via wifi.

1) Windows LAN properties setting

Open Windows LAN properties

On Networking >IPv4 >

Check the follwing--

Obtain an IP address automatically

Obtain a DNS server address automatically

  

2) SSH to Raspberrypi from Windows

Luckily SSH is enabled by default in Rasbian Jessie 4.4. First download PuTTY from here.Just double click the putty.exe to run PuTTY. 

Enter the following in the PuTTY window

host name : raspberrypi

port : 22

Leave all other setting in their default values.

click open

3) Find the raspberry pi's IP

On the terminal type

hostname -I             

## The first ip listed is the ethernet ip and the second one is of the wifi on pi

Note down the ip of the ethernet connection

4) Install and configure VNC server on pi

To install VNC server on raspberrypi on the terminal type
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

vncserver :1  ##launch vnc server on pi 

You will have to set the password for the connection.

In case you forget the password use sudo vncpasswd to change vnc password. :)

Now lets configure pi a bit -

sudo raspi-config  

Go to Advanced options >VNC >enable    ## enable VNC server

5) Launch VNC server on Raspberrypi boot

To configure for VNC server auto start as a service when the Pi boots up:

Open any text editor in pi (nano/vi) to create a file to auto start Tight VNC Server

sudo nano /etc/init.d/tightvncserver

Type in the following in the file :

#!/bin/bash

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          tightvncserver

# Required-Start:    $syslog

# Required-Stop:     $syslog

# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

# Short-Description: vnc server

# Description:

#

### END INIT INFO

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/init.d/tightvncserver

# Set the VNCUSER variable to the name of the user to start tightvncserver under

VNCUSER='pi'

case "$1" in

  start)

    su $VNCUSER -c '/usr/bin/tightvncserver :1'

    echo "Starting TightVNC server for $VNCUSER"

    ;;

  stop)

    pkill Xtightvnc

    echo "Tightvncserver stopped"

    ;;

  *)

    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/tightvncserver {start|stop}"

    exit 1

    ;;

esac

exit 0

Press Ctrl+x, then Y to save the file

Edit the permissions of this file to make it executable and active

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tightvncserver

sudo update-rc.d tightvncserver defaults

sudo reboot

6) Download and configure VNC viewer for Windows

Download VNC viewer from here. Double click the downloaded exe file to launch vnc viewer.

File>New connection

Enter the IP of Pi (obtained from step 3) followed by :1

If pi's Ip is 169.254.1.193, we enter 169.254.1.193:1

After pi reboot in step 5 you need to again find the pi's IP (steps 2-3)

If an error message comes up enter the ip as

169.254.1.193:5901

Now go to expert tab of the connection and change ColorLevel from pal8 to full.

Click OK

Double click the connection created.Please be patient...

Enter vnc password created in step 4 when prompted.

And there you are on pi.........