What is important here is the ‘255’ number, because this is the Broadcast IP address for your local network. If you use macOS, open the Terminal app (Applications > Terminal) and run the command: $ ping 192.168.1.255Ĭhanging the ‘192.168.1’ part of the IP address for the one of your local network.
How to get that information? Easy! (This assumes that your local network uses DHCP to assign IP addresses, the most common scenario.) In order to access the Raspberry Pi from the VNC client you will need to know what IP address is using the Pi. Just download it, run the installer, follow the steps… and you will have completed the first part of the process. There are a lot out there, but VNC Viewer is one that runs just fine and is available for the main platforms. What about accessing it remotely via SSH and/or VNC? I bet this is the first thought you had, and here is a step-by-step guide to configure it so you can use your current display, keyboard and mouse from you main computer (the one you use to run the Xojo IDE) to control the Raspberry Pi.įirst of all, while you can access your RPi via SSH, displaying your well trained Geek super powers, it is really more convenient to control it via the GUI, as you do your computer. Nevertheless, you probably don’t want to use an exclusive display, keyboard and mouse just to control and interact with your Raspberry Pi. The perfect combination to create and deploy complete solutions with Xojo. The Raspberry Pi is a complete computer -and a very cheap one!- with USB, HDMI, Ethernet and a GPIO that gives the access to design, create, and control a lot of things (think IoT). After all, Xojo not only simplifies making the User Interface of your apps via drag and drop, it’s an object-oriented and event oriented programming language that builds native Linux apps based on the ARM processor architecture for the Raspberry Pi ( among other platforms). Xojo is a superb choice for developing and deploying apps for Raspberry Pi.