The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the UK by Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic Computer Science in schools.
According to Raspberry Pi Foundation, more than 19 million Pis were sold by March 2018.
Sometimes you need to access a Raspberry Pi without connecting it to a monitor. Perhaps the Pi is embedded in something like a robot, or you may want to view some information from it from elsewhere. Maybe you simply don't have a spare monitor! You can find more information on accessing your Raspberry Pi remotely here.
- IP Address
- How to find your Raspberry Pi's IP address in order to connect to it.
- Access Over Internet
- Remote access to the Pi over the internet by configuring port forwarding or using a third-party service.
- VNC Viewer
- Remote access to the Pi's graphical interface, viewed in a window on another computer.
- SSH
- Access the command line of the Pi from another computer.
- SFTP
- Copy files between your Pi and another computer using SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).
- SCP
- Copy files between your Pi and another computer using SCP (Secure Copy Protocol).
- SSHFS
- Copy files between your Pi and another computer using SSHFS (Secure Shell Filesystem).
- rsync
- Synchronise folders between the Pi and another computer using
rsyncover SSH.
- Synchronise folders between the Pi and another computer using
- FTP
- Copy files between your Pi and another computer using FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
- Web Server
- Set up a website or a web page to display some information about the Pi, using a web browser on another machine, on the network or on the internet.
- Samba/CIFS
- Sharing folders from or to Windows-based devices.
README written by Mohammed Ismail