Mobile Raspberry Pi with ANY iPad. No USB-C needed.
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- Following on my from earlier video about pairing the Raspberry Pi 4 with the iPad Pro over USB-C, this video show how to pair any iPad (or iPhone, or Android tablet) with a Pi4 or a Pi3 over WiFi.
Not only that, but this solution solves the problem of how to charge the iPad while using the Pi, and provides a really nice interface for working with WiFi while on the go.
TIMESTAMPS:
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1:35 - What you'll need
3:43 - Install a fresh Raspberry Pi
6:29 - Update all Raspbian packages
6:55 - Install RaspAp
14:00 - Test it out!
USEFUL LINKS and FIXES:
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RaspAp Home Page: raspap.com/
RaspAp FAQ: github.com/bil...
Run the RaspAp Quick Installer with `curl -sL install.raspap... | bash`.
Fix the issue preventing WiFi scanning from working with `sudo wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211,wext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0`.
Make sure that the `dhcp-range` configuration in dnsmasq.conf looks like this: `dhcp-range=192.168.50.50,192.168.50.150,12h`
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Hey Rob, could you please make a tutorial to connect a rasberry pi over wifi using your Android tablet...
Sir can u please explain about that unmount thing and about the partition, why did u disable auto unmount....
I have just started on the Raspberry Pi, and even more amazed how much more you can do with it.
Now we are getting people like your self who are opening even more ways to use the Raspberry Pi , thank you for a wonderful video and hopefully more to come.
There's two things about this video. 1. set the PI to wait for network on boot in Raspi-config otherwise DNSMASQ will mess up. 2. there's no need to do the edit immediatly after the initial install. That's been fixed now. Love this video. it's got me a a great setup for using my PI whilst out.
Colin Dawson why wait for network on boot?
Pastrycak3s as I said DNSMASQ will mess up if you don’t wait for network.
I was skeptical about this video from the title. I was expecting a dumb connect via VNC type video. Instead I got a pretty useful tutorial and thank you for the timestamps in the description so I could skip to the more advanced section!!!!!
Hi Rob, thank you for following up with the non-USB-C / Lightening iPad users, much appreciated and for going through all the relevant steps. For other users than do not necessarily require multiple users to access shared material and therefore access through the Raspberry - So to be clearer, single user with Wireless iPad only and again a Lightening variant, but you want connectivity to multiple hard drives and devices, I have used the Lightening to USB-A adapter with the USB-A connected to an Aukey powered USB-A 3.0 10 Port hub. I have happily connected 10 USB devices and can find and move data around between them, work on files etc. The iPad has wireless, so any connectivity gets me to the internet, worst case a hot-spot with my iPhone. It’s a simple and cheap alternative with little weight. For travel and safety, I use a 2TB SSD which holds plenty for me a ultra light weight and swop this back onto my MacBook Pro when I need to, want to work on the MacBook or need its horse power.. This is not to detract from your setup which provides other alternatives and multi-user but to give other readers another simple, cost effective but single user and light weight portable option. Thank you once again. Kind regards Gavin
Gavin, if I'm reading this right, are you saying you have gotten the direct connection between a Lightning iPad and a Raspberry Pi to work via the Lightning-to-USB-A adapter and a hub? Because that was my original hope, too, but it seemed like no one was getting an RPI-iPad connection to work over Lightning...
@@jaytay579 Hi Jason, No, I apologize if I have misled you but if you re-read, what I am saying is that I used a Wireless iPad only and I have used the Lightening to USB-A adapter with the USB-A connected to an Aukey powered USB-A 3.0 10 Port hub. From this point, it depends what you wish to connect as to whether or not you need to put power into the Lightening Adapter. For example, a USB 256GB key did not require any power, but a HDD requires power. However, once powered, using the Aukey (also powered), I happily ran multiple HDD's. I am also waiting for a new 2TB Credit Card sized drive, which will then provide me with an SSD (so no moving parts therefore safety of contents) that will take all of my work and can be used between my iPad and MacBook. This will give me a very light weight, but simple set-up to be on the road with my iPad and all my data with minimum of kit. Hope this helps, link attached. Kind regards Gavin www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperdisk/hyperdisk-probably-the-smallest-and-fastest-portable-ssd/posts/2732171?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users
Amazing video and this is exactly what I want! Although I successfully set up pi via USB-C as your previously video showed, however, it consumes my iPad battery quite noticeably while I do heavily coding or installing large files. Before I watched this video, I had to link my iPad via USB’s first, manually set up pi-WiFi, find the IP address, unplug iPad, and finally ssh pi with the IP. So I could charge both iPad and Pi at the same time... Your video is such a brilliant once-for-all solution! I like your ‘never settle’ spirit and always find out the best solution for us. Thank you!
I am in mid 70s from a totally different background. Your one of the best I’ve seen. Thanks.
I remember trying to set this kind of configuration up manually a while back when I got my first raspberry pi 2. Such a pain. Spent hours on it before eventually giving up, but I did learn a fair bit. Interesting to see raspAP has not quite mastered zero touch installation! Great vid & powerbank is always useful. Cheers.
Hates off, mate! You’ve done a lion’s share of work and made this pretty simple for anyone with basic skills to follow.
Interesting, I have a iPad Pro never thought of experimenting with my Raspberry Pi with it... will now :)
much better viewing angle to follow the process/instructions. Thanks again for the "nerdy" iPad content, this is more technical than the content from the "standard" tech RUclipsrs. Keep up the the good work :)
This set up is looking very clean! I was running for the past week the Pi as accesspoint and I would share internet with it and my iPad Air by tethering my phone to both (via USB and Bluetooth). Can’t see why this wouldn’t work in other models of the Pi, my set-up worked in the pi Zero and 3B+ .
I’ll give this nice GUI a try =D Thanks for the research and the nice vid man.
Absolutely awesome tutorial...! Before I discovered your channel purchasing a Raspberry Pi was really just a dream, but the level of detail you add to your videos has me thinking I could do this. Thanks for the fantastic videos and please keep them coming. 👍
I have been trying to figure out how to bring my setup anywhere I go. This definitely solves my issue. Thank you sir!
This is a great idea. As an improvement I tried using a pocket wifi to connect the Raspberry Pi and my iPad and still be mobile. That way I can save some memory and cpu cycles on my Raspberry Pi.
Underrated channel
Just got my new RaspberryPi 4 and I’m really happy I’ve found your channel, Thanks. More content please
Cool type up. Love to see firewall/filtering on the pi too!
Hi! Thanks for sharing your experience with iPad Pro and pi. I have both, but never thought to use them together in the way you are doing on mobility, really interesting. Instead I am using both for home automation with home assistant and it works great!
I have an ipad 6th gen. Do you think it would be possible to use it as a monitor for pi?
This needs way more thumbs up! Or is it thumbs ups? Whichever. It deserves far more than it has. Great work!
Hey, as a quick tip: you can also use "ssh pi@raspberrypi". You don't actually have to look up the ip address of your pi. That might change if there is a second device with the name "raspberrypi" in your network but yes, it can be as easy as that.
Very nice follow-on to your last Pi/iPad video. Sure a battery would be nice but your info is great.
I kinda like the video. What I don't find very intuitive is that the title does not really give away what the setup is about, and also you don't emphasise the use cases that can benefit from the setup too much. Those two things could make the video even better I think.
Good feedback. Thanks 👍👍
Great video! More pi and more iPad tips and tricks. I’m not a coder but I love learning through this channel so I can understand if it would work for my needs.
Thank you for posting this. I have the 10.5” iPad Pro and did not want to upgrade just to connect to a Pi.
Always great to see more interesting things to do with Pi
Thanks for this walk through, this is exactly I've been looking for!
Wow! I've been looking for something to get me set-up on iPad for development this for ages - thank you!
Thanks for covering this since I have an iPad Pro with lighting.
Thanks for the walkthrough, I have a pi coming in the next few days so might give this a go! One of the powerbanks could be useful to have.
Great work! I love your videos. Please note that on the latest RaspAP distribution the error related to wpasupplicant.conf after the RaspAP installation has been resolved at more recent rereleases.
I tried this. SSH was fine but RaspAp did not connect despite the file corruption issue being fixed. Tried RemoteIt as well but that didn’t connect either. Using wifi on the Pi but that connects and updates so the wifi is working.
Love you channel! Keep up the amazing content
I’d really like more Pi content. Also, perhaps, good small monitors and good large monitors, particularly wide ones.
More raspberry pi videos please. This was awesome!
Loving these Pi videos. Cant wait to try this out
Wasn’t aware of raspap! Pulled out a 6 year old battery that’s just been sitting for a while and was surprised to see a 3B+ managed to run on it just fine. Definitely going to be giving it a spin and perhaps getting a better battery solution in the future if I get some good use out of it.
Thank you for these videos. My husband bought me one for Christmas based on your earlier vid. We still haven’t figured it out, so glad to have found this video tonight. He bought a kit that supposedly had all the necessary parts-not true, so have to wait. But would love to be entered into contest, thank you!
Another great example of a how to use a pi! Thanks for the video. 😀
Will there be an update to this video? Would definitely love that!
Definitely. I’m completely revisiting my own setup and will share it on the channel.
Brilliant video yet again! Looking forward to the future content 👍
Great video. You should talk more about the benefits of using this setup on a public WiFi network. Hoping for that battery!
New to the channel and loving all the content!
Please more RPi content. Loved this video.
Really enjoy your videos! Good luck with the channel, you deserve many more subscribers!
Tried this and it works great. I can run shortcuts too from my iPhone to the PI.
Yet another excellent video greatly appreciated. I have Pi3 soon Pi4 & Pi Zero
Having trouble with dnsmasq.conf. I removed the # and changed the line to resemble the up range for the dhcp server but once I reboot, the raspAP dash board doesn’t connect. Anything I’m doing wrong?
Just subscribed and thank you for all the info, came through loud and clear.
I was looking for a way to do this on a Pi 3. Thanks for the great content, keep it coming.
Great vid, the best way to to connect to the Pi without any accessories yet!
Keep up the Rpi and iPad content!
Watched the last video about this and found it interesting, this one got me subscribed! Very good info and enjoyable format.
Thank you. for the. videos. How can I find the written transcript with the instructions? I have. both an iPad Pro and a raspberry pi and want to combine it to use when I dont want to combine them into a lightweight laptop
I’m more interested at the moment in being able to use my regular iPad as a screen/keyboard for my pi zero via ssh where there is no network/internet eg in the park /beach etc . Would this allow that? It seems a bit hit and miss at times
Perfect. Thanks been trying to complete my transition to my IPad Pro. This will help tremendously.
I've done so many projects with the Pi that use a WiFi hotspot but I just recently found RaspbAP. Also I didn't know you could configure the device to be a client and an AP, I always made sure I had 2 WiFi interfaces available (of which one was always a USB dongle). Will be trying that out soon for sure!
Got many raspberry laying around home. I think am addicted to them lol.
If you ever discover how many is ‘enough’, let me know 😂
Where is the written description you speak of please. I am a novice so need to see instructions slooowly....Thanks for great videos
Hope you’re doing good man. Love your vids.
More content iPad and Raspberry please :)
Slim battery bank is essential for my travel kit, would love to have the battery along with my rpi4 to use the solution described to go iPad only on work trips.
I followed the instructions and everything works fine until I disconnect the Ethernet cable. Although the WiFi says connected in RaspAp it refused to allow an internet connection. Any ideas as to what this could be? any help would be awesome.
Happy Christmas - the battery would be a nice present to start the new year.
Informative and inspirational video. Any chance of an update to this. The software has had quite an update. I am having trouble getting it to work.
I’m doing a full update of this one very soon.
Very timely video! I have been researching options for doing this with my iPad Air 2019 with Lightning.
Quality guide!
Python projects with the Pi would be an amazing series.
Since any public WiF is an unsecure swamp, a VPN client on the Pi to connect to a home Pi VPN server and then to the internet is quite a good idea. This is also useful for watching IPlayer when you are abroad.
Of course you could also directly connect from the Pad to the home VPN
Thanks for the very informative video. I’d love to see more raspi videos as well as iPad videos. I’d also like a that powerbrick.
I have a commercial version of this that is more compact, but doesn’t support OpenVPN.
I think I’ll be trading the compactness for the OpenVPN (and general options) as this looks like a killer travel router!
Man, you have a very interesting nouse, looks exactlly as mine. Look, I know you are configuring a mobile version of that set, but you can connect everything with a hub ( many versions ) that power the Pi and at same time transfer data.
Yet another excellent iPad/Raspberry Pi video. Maybe I’m just a bit thick, but why is the advantage of using the Pi to create a hot spot for the iPad to connect to?
I just set this up on a RaspPi 3 I had available and am connecting with my Android tablet and another Pi currently. Now if I can get the Ethernet port to also proxy through the Pi I will be able to do even more... Trying to connect my Jetson Nano in this mix... Thanks again for this interesting video!
Great video! I haven’t gotten a Pi yet, but one is definitely in my future as I’m a ham radio operator and they’re quite a useful computer. Keep up the great work!
I would suggest that you don't only get one, but instead get a few (especially one or more Zero Ws). It's well worth having an extra one or two available for random projects and experimenting once the first one you bought is occupied with whatever you actually decided to buy it for...
Thank you for this explanation. Would VNC Viewer still work with this setup? So you can use the Raspberry desktop on the iPad as a Linux computer? Without an internet connection and no local network with a router?
Interesting little project! One of those batteries would sure come in handy!
Great video, watched your video to connect pi via USB c but my iPad is an old model with no USB c. this is a better method for me.
I've played a bit with both this and the USB C method. The USB C method is far, far, far superior. The RaspAP method shown here seems like it's on a timer to just randomly break if you look at it wrong, and the virtual wlan it uses to support this specific setup is temperamental as hell.
Do yourself a favor and get an rPI 4 for this type of use. There's a ton you can do with it that was never shown when this trick first hit the community
I think the issue becomes for those whose ipad doesn’t have usb c. Now honestly I don’t know why Apple doesn’t just make all of their ipads use type c or allow for some kind of pro app situation because I am only doing this to run vs code through my pi.
I’m diggin the little headless Mac mini in the background. 🙌🏽
Nice spot. Just one of many little machines dotted around ready for SSH access!
New to Raspberry Pi - thanks for the ideas on how to use it with iPad. Love to have other suggestions on using the Pi with......
+ I would love to hear more about iPad + raspberry cool things:))
Great! I was trying to think of away to do this setup with my older iPad Pro. Thanks for the video!
hi, thanks for that detailed tutorial! I’ve got a question in terms of being completely mobile: let’s say I’m somewhere without Wi-Fi available, I would create a hotspot with my phone (over cell), then I would connect the pi via Wi-Fi with the hotspot, and then the pi with the ipad.. would that work? I also would use a vnc client for getting the graphical interface.. and if it would work, does the vnc connection (by that I mean transmitting the video data over Wi-Fi) use my data volume? or asking the question in another way: could I make a Wi-Fi connection between the pi and the iPad without having actually „internet“-connection, but only having a Wi-Fi connection between the two?
I would really appreciate if you or maybe someone else can give me an answer to this.. I have an iPad with lightning port and I love the idea of minimalism, so using the iPad as a monitor and touch screen for the pi.. I would have the iPad for surfing and making beats and also could use it as a monitor for desktop apps with the pi, for example producing the music further, that would be wonderful..
I always want to find solutions for being / staying minimal with using the things you already have.. apple has good products, but I hate the way they lock down possibilities with them..
Thanks in advance!
You can absolutely pair the Pi to the phone hotspot for Internet connectivity, and then have the iPad connect to the Pi. In that scenario, the VNC flows only between the Pi and the iPad and doesn't use your data allowance. You'll only use your data allowance when the iPad or wants to get something from the Internet.
Realy good videos you deserve more subs
Could you please make a tutorial to do ssh over cable but with pi zero instead of pi 4? Best regards
I’m fairly new to Raspberry Pi and learning.
Excellent as always.... yet, i still prefer the previous setup.. its lighter for a quick outing, and 6 hours from the ipad is more than enough... longer than that i would pick the laptop
I'd love to see more pi content, and a battery would be very useful
Great video! I'll have to test this setup on my Holidays :)
Raspberry pi is a great little piece to play with but I just got a headache from watching all the stuff that I would have to do to get it to work. It will be easier in future I hope.
Great video. I have learned so much from you!!! Keep the videos coming!!!
Great setup and really helpful video
Thanks for all your great content!
This is a really great clear video!
perfect solution for my use case.. seems like it is possible to install some additional software so you'd could run some linux software via vnc on your pi from your ipad and still be online e.g. in a hotel.. connection to your pi as usual and change the WiFi directly from the GUI in your pi ..did i got it right?
great set up, really enjoying this series of iPad/pi set ups. Can you run pi hole and openVPN on the pi that is running the AP?
You can. OpenVPN can now be installed as part of the quick installer and the FAQ has a section on configuring Pihole alongside Raspap
@@tech_craft oh nice one! I'm setting this up today
Have you tried it with Adguard Home? Have you tried it with unbound?
Spot on video!!! Love the format and method. Thanks so much!
Thanks for the instructions but I just ran into a lot of problems with the Pi 400 and this tool.
Hey! A big thanks for this vid. My son gave me his RPi 3B+ and also his iPad
mini gen 4, adding to my iPad gen 4. I performed most of your recommended actions with my 17" MacBook Pro. Other than installing RaspAp via command line, I used the RPi's menu panels to enable ssh and vnc. On RaspAp, uap0 set up through the hotspot tab, wlan scan worked already, and the dns tab handled its setup. On each of these tabs, I had to enable each function separately and make sure each function was enabled. Interesting thing though, macos terminal stopped connecting via ssh. Also, at Starbucks Coffee, after joining their wifi, the RPi's browser stopped showing webpages other than it's own RaspAp page. Another interesting thing is the vnc connection between the MacBook and the pi is far more stable than the connection between either of the two iPads. Any ideas? PiHelper's , or the iPad, connection has become unstable. Anyway, a fun project. Thanks for the help. Peace...Guy
Update: I learned, from RPi website and forum and a magazine for the RPi, that the MacBook also uses command line entries like the RPi. I made entries, on the Mac OS terminal, that allowed the terminal to connect to the RPi via ssh. Also, the webpage problem ended up as a problem, or restriction with the Chromium browser. I searched the "add/removed" panel, on the pi, and found Firefox web browser. Firefox does not seem to have the strict restrictions as Chromium has. It first came to my attention while trying to access different webpages while connected to the public WiFi at Starbuck's Coffee. Some webpages would load and others not. As for the unstable connections with the iPad, that still persists. Not all is perfect yet.........
Hello TechCraft,
Am still not able to understand the use case when iPad and raspberry pi can both use hotspot from our regular phone’s data connection then why do you need RaspAP and the OTG thing to connect to ipad. Am having a iPad Air 2 which am planning to use as a direct monitor so simply with the powered hub USB 3 connection can power up raspberry pi 4 but with your set up am not able to view my raspberry pi desktop on iPad. Not sure what piece am missing here. Please help me understand.
Great video, I'll be trying this with my Pi soon.