Connect Laptop with Windows to Your Raspberry Pi

The software packages  you will need to connect your raspberry pi with your windows PC are -

1. Putty
2. LightVNC Viewer

Though Putty is enough to connect your raspberry with ssh , but it will give a non graphical view of raspberry. The next software use VNC to connect to raspberry in a graphical mode but we will need putty also to use LightVNC.

To connect by SSH procedure is -

• Download Putty here
• Copy the Putty and paste it in the Windows folder of your computer e.g. C:\Windows
• Make sure the raspberry in your LAN network. If you don't know how to find the IP address of the raspberry then follow this link
• Now write ssh ip address of raspberry e.g. ssh 192.168.0.110
• It will ask you the user name and password, and after putting them correctly putty will log in you to raspberry in a console mode.

As we are now connected in a console mode, we can also connect in a more advanced graphical mode with the raspberry. For this do this -

• write vncserver to the console of putty as previously explained
• If you find error then you install vncserver by sudo apt-get install vncserver
• Now you are ready for graphical user mode raspberry access
• Open the LightVNC application and write down the ip address of the raspberry along with the port (e.g. 192.168.0.110:1)
• After giving the correct password you can access raspberry in  a graphical mode.

Also see my videos about raspberry pi here.