Note: If you like to connect to your Raspberry from your laptop, we recommend to use VNC. If you rather like to connect a monitor and keyboard as well as a mouse to the Raspberry, you can skip the steps with the VNC update.
We had some issues with the installed version of VNC that is customized for connecting a Laptop via the ethernet cable to the PI. However as we connect wirelessly, our setup is slightly diffrent. The easiset way that we found is to update the Raspbian OS as follows. In a terminal type
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install realvnc-vnc-server
sudo apt-get install realvnc-vnc-viewer
Next you enable the VNC server in the configuration panel via the Rasbian GUI by selecting
Menu >
Preferences >
Raspberry Pi Configuration >
Interfaces.
Here you toggle the VNC service to enabled. As we are already at it in our setup we enabled all other services, especially those that deal with Grove sensor related bins and wires.
Next reboot and double check if the settings are preseved after the reboot
To install a vnc server of your liking on your Mac. You find one at
Be sure to download the version of the VNC Viewer for the computer you are going to use to virtually control the Pi (there is a version listed for Raspberry Pi– don’t download this one. For us this is the Mac version.)
Once you have downloaded the VNC viewer installed it you can open the program. Next you can start vnc viewer and enter the ip address of your raspberry. Make sure you are on the same network. You can find the address by using ifconfig.