Sometimes you need to access toyour raspberry pi but you don’t have a monitor to do that. Well, a solution would be autostart x11vnc server on your raspberry pi at boot it.
Edmundo Fuentes: Raspberry Pi without keyboard, mouse nor screen.
Edmundo Fuentes: Raspberry Pi without keyboard, mouse nor screen.
I’ve been wanting to mess around with a Raspberry Pi ever since the day it was announced. The thing is, right now I’m studying abroad, so buying a dedicated set of peripherals (keyboard, mouse, screen, etc..) was not an option.
However, it occurred to me that I could use my own MacBook as…
Install VNC
VNC
Do the following to install x11vnc which will allow you to VNC into a “headless” (no monitor, keyboard, or mouse connected) Pi from an external machine.
sudo apt-get install x11vncsudo tee /etc/init.d/x11vnc <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/init.d/x11vnc
# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
start)
su pi -c '/usr/bin/x11vnc -forever -display :0'
echo "Starting VNC server "
;;
stop)
pkill x11vnc
echo "VNC Server has been stopped (didn't double check though)"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/x11vnc {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
EOF
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/x11vnc
sudo update-rc.d x11vnc defaults