On Sunday, 2 February 2020 09:22:27 GMT PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > I have seen two articles recently about connecting to a Raspberry Pi. Is it > horses for courses, or is one to be preferred over the other?
We do a lot of remote connecting to Raspberry Pis :-) Until now, I have personally used SSH from a console to do work on the remote device; mainly tailing logfiles and editing with nano, etc. I then use Filezilla to up and download files to and from the remote device. I do a lot of the latter, because at least once per week I connect to all the Pis in the network and download results files which show the levels of water in the various areas of the River System. (Yes, I know I could use scp, but I have mega problems remembering the pathnames ;-( ) > Snowflake ssh: > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/snowflake-is-the-linux-ssh-gui-you-did > nt-know-you-needed/ I too saw this a couple of days ago and I downloaded it here to my desktop. In essence it would appear to allow me to up and download files to and from the remote device, edit files on the remote device and also get a shell console on the remote device; all without logging in to each device two or three times. The main downside (arguably) is that it breaks the golden rule of 'do one thing and do it well', but if it works and it isn't too buggy, I'd be happy to use it. I plan to try it out on Monday or Tuesday when I routinely retrieve the Results. > Vnc: https://towardsdatascience.com/cool-projects-with-a-pi-7bd4792c6e90 That is a completely different kettle of fish and it's main goal is to view and manipulate the desktop remotely. It is very resource intensive and so tends to be a bit slow. I've tried it previously on both Windows and Linux desktops and wasn't over-enthused. It won't work for me at WMT anyway, because none of the networked Pis are running a desktop. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2020-02-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
