We are going to need to download some apps from the Google play store for this, but do not worry they are free.
Install JuiceSSH
The first app we need to download is called JuiceSSH, search in the Google play store for it and you will come across something that looks like this below. Here is the link just in case you cannot find it.
Install the JuiceSSH app but do not open it straight away we need one more app to make using JuiceSSH a bit easier.
Install Hackers Keyboard
The next app we are going to download from the Google play store is Hackers Keyboard, this gives you access to extra keys that the standard Android keyboard does not have. I use the Hackers Keyboard all the time on my Android devices, its just better. Here is the link. Open the app when you have downloaded it and enable the keyboard for use on your Android device.
Set-up JuiceSSH
Go to your apps and find the yellow JuiceSSH icon and open the app. You will be presented with something similar to the screen below.
Click (or touch) on the Connections.
We currently have no connections set-up so click on the white + sign in the yellow circle bottom right to create a new connection.
Here enter in a nickname, this can be anything you want. Make sure type is set to SSH and then enter the IP address of your Raspberry Pi 3 on your local network.
Worth mentioning here that your Android device must be on the same network also. I already had an identity set-up but you will not, click the drop down and choose new.
Give your identity a nickname, again can be anything you want. Then for the username enter pi, you can set a password here if you like but I will not bother, I will just enter my password each time I connect. Click the tick icon in the top right to confirm your changes to the identity.
With your identity now set-up and chosen, click the tick icon in the top right corner to confirm saving your new connection. You will be returned to the connections.
Connect with JuiceSSH
Click on your newly created connection and your phone will attempt to connect to your Raspberry Pi 3! You will receive a pop up asking you to accept a key, press ACCEPT.
And then if like me you gave your identity no password, you will be asked to confirm your password. Enter the password you use to log in to the Raspberry Pi 3.
Then that is it, you should be connected and be welcomed by by familiar sight of the terminal command prompt.
Change Keyboard
I have turned the phone in to landscape mode.
Now here is why we downloaded the Hackers Keyboard app, look at the standard Android keyboard it is missing some vital keys for interacting with our Raspberry Pi 3!
In particular the Tab key and the Ctrl Key! This is no good so click on the little keyboard shaped icon in the top right.
You will be given some options click on the Hackers keyboard to select it for use.
There we go much better we have the Tab and Ctrl keys back!
From here you can do anything you could when you were SSH`ed in via PuTTY on your Windows machine. In the screenshot above I have just typed ls to list all files and directory in my working directory as an example.
JuiceSSH Performance Plugin
Now we have JuiceSSH installed and working we can take advantage of another app made by the same people it is called JuiceSSH Performance Plugin. Here is the link.
Download and install this app and just open it straight away.
If it is not already selected then from the drop down at the top choose your identity we created earlier and then click the connect button. Because I didn't save a password with my identity I need to confirm my password again.
And that is it after a few seconds you will be shown something similar to below. Its not really that useful but if you want to see the performance of your Raspberry Pi in basically real time then this is great for that.
A useful App
An app that I have been using for a very long named Fing is exceptionally useful for keeping an eye on the different IP address of the different devices connected to your network,I highly recommend you download it from the Google play store.
Here is the link.
Below is a screenshot of Fing working, it shows me the IP addresses of all devices on my network and even allows me to rename them (only shows in the app) and give them icons, there is even a Raspberry Pi icon which I thought was great!
Any use?!
You maybe wondering what use is connecting via my phone if I have to be connected to my home network, and I would probably say not much, but connecting like this is almost exactly the same way we will be connecting in the future once we have our Raspberry Pi 3 open to the internet!
We will cover setting this up in a future post or two, one step at a time.
Thanks for reading, any favourite apps of your own? let me know down in the comments below and I will give them a try!
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