VNC Alternative

luisestrada

As you may know VNC retiring the Home plan and those existing Home team will be closed on 17/06/2024. Is there any other free alternative?

I always use VNC to connect to the MagicMirror, TeamViewer was not good. Are there any other good alternatives?

sdetweil

@luisestrada pi released a vnc
replacement , and tight vnc works

if you use winscp or bitvise ssh clients you can edit from your windows machine
and if you set the MagicMirror server to allow other system access

address:"0.0.0.0",
ipWhitelist :[],

then you can interact/debug the MagicMirror screen anywhere you have a browser

on linux you can use the caja file manager to get remote ssh filesystem access, similar to bitvise and winscp
I havent found that for Mac yet only cause I havent needed it

luisestrada

@sdetweil said in VNC Alternative:

ou can edit from your windows machine
and if you set the MagicMirror server to allow other system access

address:“0.0.0.0”,
ipWhitelist :[],
then you can interact/debug the MagicMirror screen anywhere you have a browser

on linux you can use the caja file manager to get remot

Thank you for your answer. Does this work for Mac?

sdetweil

@luisestrada said in VNC Alternative:

Thank you for your answer. Does this work for Mac?

I said in my prior post

I havent found that for Mac yet only cause I havent needed it

luisestrada

@sdetweil

I missed it as a started looking into info about bitvise and winscp. My bad.

I see it is a SSH file access. I have done that in the past, I thought is was something more like VNC or Teamviewer.

sdetweil

@luisestrada said in VNC Alternative:

I see is SSH file access, I have done that in the past

sorry, don’t understand that sentence

mumblebaj

@sdetweil Seems like rpi-connect is still in beta. May be a viable option if no relay is required else the lag could be nasty as the turn server is located in the OK.

luisestrada

@mumblebaj I tried to investigate rpi-connect but I was not able to install it, unfortunately my raspberry pi is not reacheable anymore from smb, only SSH, no idea why.

raspberrypi9

nomachine is a great and free alternative to VNC. I have been using it to mirror my smart mirror to my laptop’s display and it works very well.