With TeamViewer, you can access your Raspberry Pi even if you are running a lite version of Raspbian that only has the command line. TeamViewer is setup to share the command line screen as well.

Using TeamViewer on a Headless Raspberry Pi Setupġ. Before you can access the Raspberry Pi from a TeamViewer client, we will first have to designate a password for the server. We can do that by running the following command, where “ ” is the password that you want to utilize. Make sure you keep this password secure as it will allow someone access to your Raspberry Pi if they manage to get your TeamViewer ID and its password. Now that we have set a password for TeamViewer on our Raspberry Pi let’s now go ahead and retrieve the TeamViewer ID. The TeamViewer ID is the ID that you will utilize to make a connection to the TeamViewer server sitting on the Raspberry Pi. To retrieve the TeamViewer ID type in the following command into the terminal. You will get a result from this command showing something like what we have below. Where we have is where your TeamViewer ID will be, write this number down as you will need this to connect to your Raspberry Pi. Alternatively, if you want to be able to connect to your Raspberry Pi through TeamViewer easier, then you can connect your device up to your TeamViewer account.

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