How to remotely access a Raspberry Pi? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So I have a Synology server that I have a good deal of experience with, so this post will be through that lens.

What I'd like to do is set up a Raspberry Pi exclusively for pirating. So Qbittorrent and Proton VPN to get started, later Radarr, Lidarr, etc. I don't think I'll have a problem getting the Pi up and running, but I'd like to run it like my server, tucked away somewhere without a monitor or peripherals.

How do I access it? For my Synology box, I just put in a browser the local ip port 5000 and I have a whole desktop right there. But when I google about how I'd access a Pi, everything points to using SSH. I know a lot of people have Pis set up like this and surely they can't be administering the whole thing through CLI, right? How do I get a similar setup to my Synology such that I can just get a desktop interface in a browser?

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[-] fin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

novnc?

https://novnc.com/info.html

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago

noVNC follows the standard VNC protocol, but unlike other VNC clients it does require WebSockets support. Many servers include support (e.g. x11vnc/libvncserver, QEMU, and MobileVNC), but for the others you need to use a WebSockets to TCP socket proxy.

This is gibberish to me. Is this something I can set up in Ubuntu which is what I'm planning to run on the Pi?