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The Raspberry Pi is a versatile microcontroller board with a variety of uses from home tinker projects to IoT and manufacturing processes. These instructions are intended as a general guide for remote access. As a general rule, if your Raspberry Pi is hosting a service which is accessible via a LAN address and port, then Remote.It can be used for access from outside the LAN without port forwarding on a public IP address.
Setting up a Raspberry Pi or other headless device on wifi can be difficult when you do not have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. This is true whether it is the first time set up or if you are planning on moving your device to another location. For example, when you are building an IoT device based on a Raspberry Pi and have developed the additional software and peripherals and ship it to a customer OR when you set up your Raspberry Pi for home automation or camera systems then relocate it to a vacation home.
Remote.It has developed an OS image with the bluetooth wifi configuration to simplify it all. This is a debian based image. It comes with everything you need and simplifies installation and registration of Remote.It software for remote access to services on this device and if desired, access to services on the LAN where this device is located via jump services.
In addition, Remote.It has packaged the BLE portion so that you can include it in your own custom image.
Already have your Raspberry Pi set up and just need to add remote access? Follow our easy set up instructions.
Requirements to set up your Raspberry Pi:
We recommend a minimum 16 GB high-quality SD card from a reputable manufacturer to ensure reliability and performance with Class 10 or UHS-1 (or better) for optimal speed. Depending on your applications, you may need a larger card with higher specifications.
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The Raspberry Pi can take a few minutes (2-3 minutes) to boot for the first time because it needs to unpack the files for the operating system.
This portion must be done within the first 10 minutes of the Raspberry Pi after the Pi has finished booting up or you will need to reboot the Raspberry Pi again.
WiFi is now setup on your Raspberry Pi.
After setting up wifi, you have the option to register your Raspberry Pi with Remote.It to enable remote access to it from anywhere.
See the image below. Now you are ready to connect to this service. You need to make sure that you have the service running on the device. For example, if you choose SSH, you will need to make sure that you have SSH enabled on your Raspberry Pi.
Repeat this as many times as needed for the services you wish to connect to remotely.
Explore our developer docs website for our open source WiFi onboarding package, image production, graphQL API and more.
