Remote obs...What remote desktop software?

bert (Brett) · #1 18-05-2011, 08:28 PM

Hi Guys,

I am putting the finishing touches on a new remote automated observatory, I have an adsl connection nearby and a static ip. Just after some info on what software you guys use for controlling the computer remotely. I am looking at team viewer atm and it seems the goods, but I am after experiences of others.

The computer in the obs is a dual core windows 7 machine.

Thanks
Brett

mill (Martin) · #2 18-05-2011, 08:52 PM

I am using tight VNC and it works very good.
Best of all it is for free

mill (Martin) · #3 18-05-2011, 09:03 PM

Just tried teamviewer and it is a lot harder to set up than Tightvnc.

thunderchildobs · #4 18-05-2011, 09:32 PM

I am not sure if the free version of VNC works with windows 7?
I was using the free version on my local network with XP, vista but couldn't connect to windows 7.

Brendan

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #5 19-05-2011, 12:16 AM

er, why not use windows remote desktop connection!

Win7 to Win7 is brilliant

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #6 19-05-2011, 12:21 AM

I have used team viewer for a fair while now and its crazy, i have my inside desktop, my eeeepc, and 2 friends that live along way away. so thats connecting via Lan and via web. works seemlessly!

I don't know how you found it hard martin. my dad managed to run it and he has issues finding Firefox icon on the desktop :S

Merlin66 (Ken) · #7 19-05-2011, 02:01 AM

Team Viewer seems to be the flavour of the month. Got good reviews.
I'm just waiting on my 20m Cat 5 cable to give it a go.....
I'll have the ol' Acer XP3 in the observatory and a new Aspire Win7 on the desk....

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #8 19-05-2011, 05:52 AM

I just set up a win 7 to xp remote desktop, using real VNC, workes okay, but still trying to figure out how to see my webcam pic from it...

jamiep (Jamie) · #9 19-05-2011, 08:44 AM

Ditto,

what's exactly wrong with the inbuilt windows functionality in ths case?

Remote desktop works fine, is free, and requires very little setup ... most of the windows servers around the world are controlled using this mechanism ...why not take advantage?

Jamie

Quote:

Originally Posted by AstroJunk

er, why not use windows remote desktop connection!

Win7 to Win7 is brilliant

Tandum (Robin) · #10 19-05-2011, 09:34 AM

Remote desktop requires the remote machine to be Windows 7 professional and above.
I use vnc here, my remote machine has win7 starter on it.

bmitchell82 (Brendan) · #11 19-05-2011, 09:57 AM

team viewer has web cam chat file transfer the lot. Its also very quick at doing what it does to boot its free for non commercial use that is it is actively supported with new features and any bug fixes. As for flavor of the month i have been using it for a year and a half

joshhagger (Josh) · #12 19-05-2011, 10:10 AM

I agree with the others, TeamViewer is great. Can access it from anywhere without having to worry about firewalls or port forwarding, also, you can have more that one person connected at once.

I liked it so much, I talked work into replacing their previous remot support tool with the commercial version of it.

rally · #13 19-05-2011, 10:57 AM

Brett,

RealVNC has the advantage of being multi cross platform compatible
all Windows, iMac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Linux/Unix etc

But ultimately you may find that for your automation (once things are sorted out) you will create your image run schedule on your local machine and upload the schedule and run that remotely - either using ACP or maybe CCDWare.

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #14 19-05-2011, 12:44 PM

Team viewer looks pretty good. How does it handle video streams?

Gama · #15 19-05-2011, 05:31 PM

Im running vista32 on my remote desktop, and Win7 as my regular computer in my office. Works, and has worked for a long long time now. Without a hitch, and updates my screen at less that 0.5 seconds refresh rate, and im running 1920 x 1080 full 16 bit color.

Theo

allan gould · #16 19-05-2011, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tandum

Remote desktop requires the remote machine to be Windows 7 professional and above.
I use vnc here, my remote machine has win7 starter on it.

I'm using remote desktop on my machines and both are XP and not win7.

Tandum (Robin) · #17 20-05-2011, 04:24 PM

Then drop the 7 if you must use a 10 year old windows

and call it Windows Professional/Business and up.
Windows labeled, Home or Basic or Starter, don't have an RDP server built in.

allan gould · #18 20-05-2011, 04:46 PM

OK - XP Pro is the software.
I use 10 yr old software because it works and there are drivers for all I need.
Remote desktop also works with RDP-lite and Teamviewer on my Ipad - is that OK for cross platform?

bartman (Bart) · #19 21-05-2011, 05:08 AM

Just downloaded TeamViewer and the iPhone app.
I am amazed!
Within a few minutes of setting up I could control my desktop with my iPhone!
Very easy
this last sentance i write from my phone.... awesome!!!

Merlin66 (Ken) · #20 21-05-2011, 05:14 AM

As I said...just seems to work- and work well - what more do you want from a "freeware" program???