How to access Pi over the internet from another computer

[Parth86]

Hi
I have been discuss this at another place but I have not found a satisfactory answer yet , How can we access Raspberry Pi over the internet from another computer. Have you ever done this? I have found some information here https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/access-over-Internet/ But not getting much help from link

You can control your home device within 100 feet range because your WiFi range is 100 feet but what happen when you want to control home device from long distance like 10 km +

How can we access Raspberry Pi over the internet from another computer?

 

[Ian Rogers]

The easiest way is through a web page.. Make your pi a web server https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/web-server/ And you can control access... I bought a picweb from Olimex... It was very good. I could control anything remotely!!

 

[ronsimpson]

How can we access Raspberry Pi over the internet from another computer.

"access" ???????
1) Like Ian said, in post #2.
2) Some people want to type on the PC but drive the Pi. See picture. (don't need a keyboard and monitor) Use a PC.
https://diyhacking.com/connect-raspberry-pi-to-laptop-display/

3) Your PC to Pi connection half way around the world is simple & complicated.
The PC needs to know the IP address of the Pi, and the address of the router, and probably the address of the internet service for the Pi. I don't know how but "at work" they talk from US to China all the time.

I think we need to know more about what you are trying to do.

 

[Parth86]

I want to start with LED because its very easy to test. I have connected led with resistor to raspberry in my home india. Now I want to control this led from outside india. How to do this?

This is my board



This is gui interface

 

[ronsimpson]

Search for "raspberry web server" (there are also youtube videos that show how)
I used "Apache" or "Flask".
There is a demo "turn on LED".
Make this work inside your house first.

Next step is how to get into your house. The answer to that can be found in the same place.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

This is more info that you present over at AAC. Look here: **broken link removed** for part of the instructions for VNC. Note that it uses a cloud or can use a direct connection with the right product.

The cloud is allowing VNC to find your computer at both ends. Note for VNC to work in the non-cloud mode, you have to forward port 5900. it's unlikely that you can access your router from outside the home unless you have configured it for that ability. You should be able to config the router from the VNC connection to the Pi.

Remember that the URL www.whatismyIP.com will get you the public IP address when run from the Pi, but there is NO WAY if can see the Pi without forwarding the port.As a test, try to set up an SSH server on the Pi. Then set up a web server. Putty can be used on the PC side.

See https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/

This gives you something to test with, Remember that 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address, so https://127.0.0.1 should run the web server on the local machine if the browser is running on the local machine. You don't have to know the 192.168.1.x address. https://localhost is the same as https://127.0.0.1 which is the same as 127.0.0.1:80 since http:// defaults to port 80.

Eventually, you will need a Dynamic DNS service to access a web page from somewhere that VNC isn't set up.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

I ran into this library: https://github.com/jperkin/node-rpio Supposedly allows control of the Pi's GPIO pins.

When reading the December 2017 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine.

 

[Parth86]

I ran into this library: https://github.com/jperkin/node-rpio Supposedly allows control of the Pi's GPIO pins.

When reading the December 2017 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine.

I can control led on raspberry.

I have my exam, after two days, so I did not pay much attention on this. I will work on it after exam.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

Thanks for the update. Good luck on your exam.

You did a much better in the way the question was asked her.

The first step would be to open a port on the Pi which you did.
The second step is to forward that port # to the 192.168.x.y address of the pi. There should be a Port forwarding option in your router.

Next find a web based tool that confirms the port is open and forwarded to the addr4ss obtained by www.whatismyip.com

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

I used the tools here https://pentest-tools.com/home to do a port scan on my public IP address:

I got these results:

Starting Nmap ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-11-27 23:40 EET
Initiating Ping Scan at 23:40
Scanning <redacted public IP address> [4 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 23:40, 0.22s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 23:40
Scanning <redacted IP address, DNS name> [100 ports]
Discovered open port 5009/tcp on <redacted public IP address>
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 23:40, 1.86s elapsed (100 total ports)

[+] Nmap scan report for <redacted DNS name, public IP address>
Host is up (0.20s latency).
Not shown: 95 closed ports

PORT STATE SERVICE
5009/tcp open airport-admin
5631/tcp filtered pcanywheredata
6000/tcp filtered X11
6646/tcp filtered unknown
10000/tcp filtered snet-sensor-mgmt


Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.30 seconds
Raw packets sent: 165 (7.236KB) | Rcvd: 135 (5.396KB)

The last port is from the scanner itself. I did not know that 5009 was visible outside of my network.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

I installed nmap for Linux and did a nmap scan of my server and my laptop running linux.

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-11-27 18:05 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.0.1.222
Host is up (0.054s latency).
Not shown: 985 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
443/tcp open https
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
631/tcp open ipp
873/tcp open rsync
2049/tcp open nfs
8080/tcp open http-proxy
8081/tcp open blackice-icecap
8200/tcp open unknown
30000/tcp open unknown
49152/tcp open unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.77 seconds
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ nmap 127.0.0.1

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-11-27 18:06 EST
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00025s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
53/tcp open domain
111/tcp open rpcbind
631/tcp open ipp
2049/tcp open nfs


These scans show the ports (well-known names) and privileged ports (1-1000) that are open.

I could have an ssh service running on a non-standard port. That would not be reflected in the scan. These ports are accessible from inside my private address space.

Note the server has port 22 (ssh open). An ssh server at the well-known port of 22 is running there.