I recently upgraded my Rpi5 8GB and noticed I had the RPi connect icon. I didn't know what it was at first and it slipped my mind to research it.
I reloaded a RPI4 8GB I had running PiHole because it was on a 32bit OS (only one available when I flashed the HDD) and it was starting to get bloated with junk ect.. from playing with software and what not so I gave it a nuke and installed 64bit Bookworm on it.
I again noticed this icon for RPi connect. This time I investigated it and man I know its its beta still and it has its quirks now and then. But what an awesome tool. I have a BUNCH of RPI4's and another RPI5 16GB that I'm waiting for the case to arrive to get it going. Its so nice to have a secure method to access them all anywhere!!!
So BRAVO to all the RPi team who have contributed to this project, its BRILLIANT!!. I have my MFA setup so it uses my MS Authentication app on my phone that I have to use for work so it gives that second layer of protection from bad actors!
FYI I have found that Chrome seems to work the most consistently, Firefox usually works but sometimes it just sits there saying its loading and never does. I try Chrome and bam, works right away. I am personally not a fan of Chrome, but I have it for exceptions where FireFox simply fails me, so its no big deal.
I can't wait to see what it looks like when it comes out of beta!!! I'm sure people have shared about the copy/paste being quirky, it would sometimes work other times wouldn't so I just gave up and don't use that. I noticed too one day I was connected to a RPi and I lost internet, there was a big outage in my area and I was hard down for like 30 minutes, however my remote session to that RPi continued to work! I'm guessing your code looks to run the VNC like screen share off the local users network first if possible and then falls back to internet? I dont't know but I thought that was cool. I should have tried launching a window to another RPI and seeing what happens.
I'm a tad worried that once this is no longer beta and it all works well (enough) that its going to be a paid service, I really really hope that you all don't go that route. I'll be honest I'll pay it because I have so many of them and almost all are headless (but still with a GUI installed) because they are not in places for a full keyboard/mouse/monitor setup unless troubleshooting is needed. Usually SSH is enough.
RPi team keep up the great work!!! I am eager to see the final product and the improvements you make to it. Been a huge fan of Raspberry Pi the company. I support you all with buying the magazine and think you all doing a great thing.
There's only two things I have a minor gripe about but I'm sure there are legitimate business reasons for:
1. Not including the PCI lane on the RPI 500, I saw a tear down where the mother board you designed has the spot for it? What gives? That would have made the RPI 500 one awesome little computer!!
2. No plans to fix the silicon issue on the RPi Pico 2350 with the issues with the pull up / pull down resisters. I scoped up one from Pimoroni that had wifi and more memory (before you all released the 2W) and I was playing with it refreshing some of my micro-python knowledge as it had been awhile and simple projects were not working and it was driving me insane. I eventually was convinced there is something wrong with the MP build that was released or the board itself was damaged (by me and soldering maybe?). Did a quick google search and that's when I learned about the issue and that its documented 1300 pages into a manual that most people are not going to read start to finish. I'm a bit sad that it seems like you have no intention to fix the issue. That bums me out. Yes the documented workarounds work but now I have to remember that when building projects and if they don't work right double checking to see that issue isn't the reason. Anyways maybe you will release a Pico 2W-S since it seems that -S is used in cars as "sport" or aka faster version. And fix the silicon and add more RAM on to it. People will eat them up!
Anyways side rant that's not important, this whole post is not important. I just wanted to say great job with RPi connect and keep up the hard work for the full blown production version!! Oh and please don't charge us, that would feel like a bait and switch Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Cheers!
I reloaded a RPI4 8GB I had running PiHole because it was on a 32bit OS (only one available when I flashed the HDD) and it was starting to get bloated with junk ect.. from playing with software and what not so I gave it a nuke and installed 64bit Bookworm on it.
I again noticed this icon for RPi connect. This time I investigated it and man I know its its beta still and it has its quirks now and then. But what an awesome tool. I have a BUNCH of RPI4's and another RPI5 16GB that I'm waiting for the case to arrive to get it going. Its so nice to have a secure method to access them all anywhere!!!
So BRAVO to all the RPi team who have contributed to this project, its BRILLIANT!!. I have my MFA setup so it uses my MS Authentication app on my phone that I have to use for work so it gives that second layer of protection from bad actors!
FYI I have found that Chrome seems to work the most consistently, Firefox usually works but sometimes it just sits there saying its loading and never does. I try Chrome and bam, works right away. I am personally not a fan of Chrome, but I have it for exceptions where FireFox simply fails me, so its no big deal.
I can't wait to see what it looks like when it comes out of beta!!! I'm sure people have shared about the copy/paste being quirky, it would sometimes work other times wouldn't so I just gave up and don't use that. I noticed too one day I was connected to a RPi and I lost internet, there was a big outage in my area and I was hard down for like 30 minutes, however my remote session to that RPi continued to work! I'm guessing your code looks to run the VNC like screen share off the local users network first if possible and then falls back to internet? I dont't know but I thought that was cool. I should have tried launching a window to another RPI and seeing what happens.
I'm a tad worried that once this is no longer beta and it all works well (enough) that its going to be a paid service, I really really hope that you all don't go that route. I'll be honest I'll pay it because I have so many of them and almost all are headless (but still with a GUI installed) because they are not in places for a full keyboard/mouse/monitor setup unless troubleshooting is needed. Usually SSH is enough.
RPi team keep up the great work!!! I am eager to see the final product and the improvements you make to it. Been a huge fan of Raspberry Pi the company. I support you all with buying the magazine and think you all doing a great thing.
There's only two things I have a minor gripe about but I'm sure there are legitimate business reasons for:
1. Not including the PCI lane on the RPI 500, I saw a tear down where the mother board you designed has the spot for it? What gives? That would have made the RPI 500 one awesome little computer!!
2. No plans to fix the silicon issue on the RPi Pico 2350 with the issues with the pull up / pull down resisters. I scoped up one from Pimoroni that had wifi and more memory (before you all released the 2W) and I was playing with it refreshing some of my micro-python knowledge as it had been awhile and simple projects were not working and it was driving me insane. I eventually was convinced there is something wrong with the MP build that was released or the board itself was damaged (by me and soldering maybe?). Did a quick google search and that's when I learned about the issue and that its documented 1300 pages into a manual that most people are not going to read start to finish. I'm a bit sad that it seems like you have no intention to fix the issue. That bums me out. Yes the documented workarounds work but now I have to remember that when building projects and if they don't work right double checking to see that issue isn't the reason. Anyways maybe you will release a Pico 2W-S since it seems that -S is used in cars as "sport" or aka faster version. And fix the silicon and add more RAM on to it. People will eat them up!
Anyways side rant that's not important, this whole post is not important. I just wanted to say great job with RPi connect and keep up the hard work for the full blown production version!! Oh and please don't charge us, that would feel like a bait and switch Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Cheers!
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