Much as the name implies we are going to control our Raspberry Pi remotely using a mobile phone! There are many different ways to use your mobile phone to remotely control and manage any Raspberry Pi and one of the best options out there to date is the phone application RaspController (you can also find it for free in the Google Play Store). Once connected together this application will allow you to control every GPIO port, send commands via SHH to the Raspberry Pi terminal, shortcut those terminal commands so they can be activated using a single click, view images from a connected camera, collect data from different sensors, access all the files/folders and has full PiSense HAT compatibility. It also provides CPU speed and temperatures so you can keep track of the operation of Raspberry Pi Boards remotely.
This is an excellent method to get python codes up and running remotely and quickly through the use of those custom commands. Is honestly just a very intuitive way to control a Raspberry Pi hand-held computer and this guide will show you exactly how to set it up.
Hi, I’m interested to know if you have tried this with a Raspberry Pi Pico W? I’ve be tasked to build a robotic arm controller using the Pico W and an app of some sort.
Thanks
I want to get a gift for a friend who has a raspberry pi. I’m thinking of getting him one of these boards along with some sensors. However, I can’t seem to find a pack in amazon and I don’t know exactly what he will need. A lot of these packs come with the raspberry pi pico. Should I get him one of those? What should I do?
The Pico would be great - they’re much like the Maker loved Uno, the number of example projects are growing every day.
The above guide unfortunately wont work but they can program the Pico with the Raspberry Pi.
I was wondering, can the raspberry pico sensors be connected and used directly in a raspberry pi? Or do I need to buy the pico in order to use them?
Also, another idea I have is getting him a camera, but I don’t know what he would like better. He doesn’t know much about machine learning yet but he always says he’d like to, so maybe this would be a good stimulator. What do you think? Which idea is better?
Finally, I’m not in Australia, I live in Spain. Does that make a difference? Do you ship things here and does the cost change a lot?
If you’re planning on using the same connectors as our Pico Kit, we have you sorted. This Piicodev adapter sits on the Pi’s GPIO pins.
As for if we ship internationally we do with exceptions. Not all products are available and there is some rules regarding package sizes and weights, products for machine vision likely won’t ship overseas. We have a bit more information in our FAQs.
how to connect the following sensors:dht11,motion sensor,sound sensor,HC-SR04 distance sensor,water level sensor with this application(RaspController)
I tried to control for example an led but it does not give me the result to give on the video.a message appears (error…
time has expired: The connection has not been established).
you can help me as much as possible because I have a pfe??
Hi there. When using RaspController iOS to connect to a rpi 3, I get a Sudo verification error. Also server fingerprint not valid. Searched the web but can’t find any mention of this. Have you come across. I can connect and find the rasberry pi but nothing seems to work.
Thankyou so much for reaching out to me. I will try and provide as much information as I can. There must be a connectivity issue somewhere.
The first issue is I cant connect and start it even if it has power. (first screenshot). I am not sure if Raspcontroller can do this?
But once I have reconnected the power it looks to have connected (second screenshot). But when I open the page I get this error message (third screenshot) and if I click on anything I get other error messages (fourth and fifth screenshots).
My iphone 8 software is 16.7.8 and is up to date and I have just downloaded the raspcontroller app from the app store.
Hope this helps as I could not find any of these error messages mentioned on the web or forums.
I looked into this app, it looks like the list on the homepage only pings the IP address to see if there is a device at that IP. I was able to get a green light from my Unraid Server.
There are a few things that may be worth testing and checking to see if we can narrow down the issue:
Try reconfiguring the Pi’s IP, Username and Password in the app.
On first connection, you should get a prompt showing your Pi’s server fingerprint
Thanks for all of the support. Not sure what you mean by reconfiguring the Pi’s IP, Username or Password in the app.
Interestingly I downloaded the Android version of the app onto my Huawei tablet, and although I seemed to get the same sudo verification error, using the same ip, username and password, it seemed to work.
I was able to see all the files in File Manager, use the SSH shell, see the Rasberry pi info and the processes.
The one thing that did not seem to work was the CPU, RAM, Storage and network monitoring as it said “Unable to create directory/Raspcontroller”.
On my initial install of Raspcontroller on the iphone, it asked to install python3, python3-psutil and monitoring_v12.py. I installed the Synaptic package manager and checked what was installed and the first two showed up but nothing on monitoring_v12.py. Not sure if this is an issue or not as I have no idea what it does.
Anyway I hope this helps in some way and again it is much appreciated.
Regards
James
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