ssh into pi

TheStrayMongrel

Quick question regarding the remote controlling of the Pi via the ssh command. Ive read the wiki that advocates the use of a client like Putty but im using my Macbook and accessing it via the terminal so there is not a lot of use for 3rd party stuff. Got it working but bloody hell its so damn unstable. Am constantly having to log back into it in a new shell and waiting for it connect.

I believe that the internet connection is perfectly fine as Filezilla connects fine and has no problems transferring loads of files. Massive pain to have to reconnect and also to have to reboot pretty regularly.

Anyone else out there using similar and found a similar thing or some sort of workaround for mac to pi?

Thanks

kris964

Use filezilla and save yourself the headache of screwing around with the terminal.

Just point Filezilla to a folder on your Mac where you want to put your retropie stuff. You can use textedit to edit you files. Make sure you use SFTP and not FTP.

InsecureSpike

@kris964 said in ssh into pi:

Use filezilla and save yourself the headache of screwing around with the terminal.

Just point Filezilla to a folder on your Mac where you want to put your retropie stuff. You can use textedit to edit you files. Make sure you use SFTP and not FTP.

awesome, reply, to a anyone unsure of command line

TheStrayMongrel

Ah okay, yeah thats not a bad point. Didnt realise you could edit the text files in there so that'll work. Shame that it doesnt have the colour coded functionality but hey, small price to pay. I'm guessing that i would be about to shutdown my machine remotely using it though...

Cheers for the heads up.

TheStrayMongrel

baaa i should proof read. *I'm guessing that i wouldnt be able.

kris964

There's a program that's free for Mac, I actually use it for web development to program in PHP and do my HTML etc.., called Netbeans. It's a great program. That is also another solution if you want something more robust. I takes a little bit to get the hang of, but it's awesome once you do.

InsecureSpike

@TheStrayMongrel hi, i've been using this for a good 6 months, better tham native terminal, and you can create shortcuts too

https://www.iterm2.com

dankcushions

i use SSH on my mac fine. i should say that it was very unstable on 3.6 as the first release of raspian for the pi3 had really unstable wifi and i would get similar issues to you. if you did an apt-get update and apt-get upgradeit sorted the problem, but it should be fixed in 3.7 by default.

kris964

Ahh, Didn't see that, yeah, terminal would probably be the best option to shut down the Retropie remotely. I'd just keep a copy of the command handy and paste it in terminal when I need it. ;)

TheStrayMongrel

Thanks all for the tips, definitely gives me some stuff to try.

Cheers

kris964

You could also just make a terminal command short cut to shut down your pie.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3175771?start=0&tstart=0

TheStrayMongrel

@dankcushions said in ssh into pi:

i use SSH on my mac fine. i should say that it was very unstable on 3.6 as the first release of raspian for the pi3 had really unstable wifi and i would get similar issues to you. if you did an apt-update and apt-upgradeit sorted the problem, but it should be fixed in 3.7 by default.

Sorry @dankcushions what do i need to run in the command line to the the update/upgrade? Those commands just give me "command not found", not hugely efficient at all this.

Thanks

dankcushions

@TheStrayMongrel sorry, my mistake! should be:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
i've edited my original post

TheStrayMongrel

Excellent that's got it, thanks. Fingers crossed that helps out the stability... i do like working in the terminal.

TheStrayMongrel

Did an update on Retropie last night and wouldnt you know it ssh and ftp have stopped working. The IP address has changed but I've use the new one to try to long in through my bash terminal and also Filezilla but no dice. Any ideas?

Thanks

TheStrayMongrel

Whup, got this sorted, restart and bob's your uncle.