Alternative for revpi-tunnel?

cwsint · Post by **cwsint** » 05 Oct 2018, 22:56

Hey guys,

a quick question about ssh-tunneling: The release-notes from Strech https://revolution.kunbus.de/tutorials/ ... s-stretch/ mention that revpi-tunnel is not installed by default, on Github https://github.com/RevolutionPi/imageba ... b022f8fe61 it says that users should migrate to VNC or TeamViewer. However, your tutorials etc. still reference to revpi-tunnel.

But neither VNC nor TeamViewer seem to give complete system access like a ssh connection. Which would be great if I want to update or somehow otherwise modify the configuration of many devices at once via some batch process. Are there alternatives you support or can recommend (without the need to operate my own server)?

Regards
Cord

Post by **Eduard** » 08 Oct 2018, 14:40

Hello Cord,

since last week it is possible to access the shell with TeamViewer.

Please update the TeamViewer Agent.
"sudo apt update"
"sudo apt install teamviewer-revpi"

Since the remote shell is switched off by default, it must be switched on by the user.
"teamviewer-iot-agent configure set EnableRemoteShell 1"
"teamviewer-iot-agent restart"

After that you can use the remote shell.

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regards
Eduard

cwsint · Post by **cwsint** » 08 Oct 2018, 15:14

Hello Eduard,

that's great news, thank you! Can I also initiate the TeamViewer connection from bash (or any other console) or do I need to go through the TeamViewer GUI? In other words: how script-friendly is the shell-access you described?

Regards,
Cord

Post by **Eduard** » 09 Oct 2018, 08:03

I can't tell you if you can start the TeamViewer connection from bash as well.
I always started the remote shell connection via the TeamViewer GUI.

cwsint · Post by **cwsint** » 09 Oct 2018, 10:26

Ok, thank you. I will pass that info on to our devs.

Post by **dirk** » 09 Oct 2018, 13:06

Hi, you may enable the daemon with the command

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sudo teamviewer-iot-agent enable daemon

And you may check the status with

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pi@RevPi8165:~ $ sudo teamviewer-iot-agent info
/*******************************************/
Package version: 1.1.1238
TeamViewer Id: xxxxxxxxxx
Device is assigned to: Dirk 
Status: Online
SystemHealthMonitoring: Stopped
/*******************************************/

Or

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service teamviewer-revpi status

A quickhack for status running could be like this ... but don't blame me if it won't work in further releases

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service teamviewer-revpi status | grep -q "Active: active (running)" && echo Running || echo Stopped