Pi headless configuration - VNC

[Liam]

Hi Clem,

Thanks for making a topic!

It sounds like you might have screen blanking enabled.
This guide covers a few different methods of disabling it: Screen blanking on Raspberry Pi – How to disable it?

@Clem73188

Does anyone know if I can VNC into both windows machines and Pi machines from both the Pi machines and the windows machines? I hope to have one Pi with monitor and one windows with monitor on a network with many other Pi’s and windows machines running headless in an instrumentation / control lab. Do I need to install some VNC server on the windows boxes? Want to be able to VNC into any Pi or windows machine from either the Pi or windows machine with monitor.

Yeah, you can install both the viewer and server on a range of devices, Windows and Raspberry Pi included(for both). You can configure VNC a couple of ways, locally and through web - it’s worth taking a read through.

PS: Typically the Pi would be your endpoint(running the server) so it might be a bit laggier than if you were remoting in from a PC

Liam