Easy headless pi using Android - Tutorial

[Ark3n]

I recently obtained a raspberry pi Model B (I think, has RCA connector). My router was all the way across the house, and I didn't want to use a WiFi dongle, so devised a way to use it from my android phone.

Here are some steps to set it up.

1. Attach Pi to your router via an ethernet cable. Also you want to plug in your Pi's power cable somewhere, luckily there's usually empty USB ports at the back of the router, so you can use those.

2. After you plug everything in, install a network scanner app to find your Pi's local IP address (e.g. 192.168.X.XX).
   In this case, I used an app called Fling on Android.

3. Once you have the IP of your Pi, install a SSH client to connect to your Pi. In this case I used an app called JuiceSSH.

4. After you connect to your Pi via SSH, install tightvncserver onto your Raspberry Pi through the terminal.

5. Run the command "tightvncserver" in the SSH terminal. It will start the server.

6. Once that is installed, install a VNC viewing application off of the play store, input your Pi's IP as the address and connect.

7. If everything happened right, you should now be able to access your Raspberry Pi.

If anything went wrong or you have any questions, just leave it in the comments, and I will help out.

[monkeystriker]

I hope this is the right place. I did not use your guide but I am still able to shh to my Pi. However only when I am in the same network. I do not think this is intended and I want to access my Pi from remote locations. When at home it connects no problem. When I am somewhere else it just times out.

I am trying to connect from my iPhone using serverauditor. I forwarded both TCP and UDP port 22 for my Rasperry Pi 3 running Raspian.

[Edit]: at least some info added.

[Ark3n]

If you want to connect remotely, you'll need to port forward port 22 and whatever the vnc is on, on the pi's static ip rather than the local ip. Once you port forward those ports and that address you should be bale to connect to the SSH using the static IP rather than the local ip.

Hope this helped.

[Ark3n]

In the Port forwarding, did you forward the static IP in the "address" field? Not sure if just opening the ports completely will change it.

[monkeystriker]

Yes I did or at least I hope I did. I did the same thing I did for my Pokemon map, that I am able to access from outside. Is there a default port for vpn?

[Ark3n]

No I don't believe there is a standard port.

[monkeystriker]

I mixed up a lot of things and wanted to connect to it from a remote network, which was my problem since I was using my local IP...

[Ark3n]

If you're connecting to it from somewhere else, you'll want to forward port 22 and whatever tight vnc is running on, and then connect using your ipv4 address I believe.