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[–] BigMikeInAustin 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

from anywhere on the planet, using just a web browser.

The poor astronauts on the International Space Station miss out on so much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

They'll still find a way to connect.

Our friends on Mars, on the other hand...

[–] BigMikeInAustin 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Raspberry Pi Connect needs your Raspberry Pi to be running a 64-bit distribution of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that uses the Wayland window server. This in turn means that, for now, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 4, or Raspberry Pi 400.

At the moment, the Raspberry Pi Connect service has just a single relay (TURN) server, located in the UK. This means that if rpi-connect chooses to relay traffic, the latency can be quite high.

Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices.

[–] ikidd 3 points 4 months ago

I miss the name "Raspbian".

[–] riodoro1 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile you could just set up all of it yourself and learn a couple of things along the way but instead rPi insists on giving its users training wheels for everything. I think it would be much more useful if they provided a dns service with dynamic ip handling.

[–] Weslee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with training wheels?

Worst thing all these stupid guides do is not explain what the commands you are entering do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Internet is a dangerous place. Training wheels are for inside a LAN and not exposed to the Internet.

[–] Weslee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then how do you learn anything to do with the internet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Study and practice in a safe LAN environment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what this offers vs just using any screen sharing method, or SSH, with a mesh VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The VNC server they previously bundled with raspberry pi os is not compatible with Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you really need to use Wayland on the Pi?

[–] Shnog 1 points 4 months ago

It's the default in the new PiOS

[–] Peffse 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm guessing ease of installation/use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that won't work outside lan unless you vpn or something

[–] ikidd 2 points 4 months ago

SSH jump host is the same as this. You still have to have a public available service somewhere, that's how routing works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not true. SSH works over the open Internet just fine. It is simply an attack vector. Just like Pi Connect would be. So if both are attack vectors, go with the proven technology that is well documented as to how to prevent said attack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait really? How? I would imagine some port forwarding or something would need to be done though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A: port forwarding is only required if not in a DMZ.
B: open ports are how machines are accessed regardless of if they are forwarded or not.
C: if you don't understand how ports work, you have no business exposing anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well I have my port open in my lan but the only way to access it outside of my lan is to port forward. I don't understand how you can say that all you need to do is open the port and the machine can be accessed.

Same concept applies for any other service like a game server.