Beginners • Re: What currently is the best remote desktop software for the pi ?

For desktop sharing, older Pi's are not supported.

From the announcement (emphasis mine):

First of all, Raspberry Pi Connect needs your Raspberry Pi to be running a 64-bit distribution of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that uses the Wayland window server. This in turn means that, for now, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 4, or Raspberry Pi 400.

For older Pi's I prefer the open source DWService.
https://www.dwservice.net/

AIUI, that is still true for screen sharing. However, the restriction has been lifted for command line access using RPi Connect Lite, which now works with any model of Pi. Bookworm (or later) is required, but not Wayland. See here.

If you install the full connect version, then switch to labwc in raspi-config on e.g. a Pi3, then it works fine connect desktop.
viewtopic.php?t=374472
This works from a new install.
Or you may need to update everything and install labwc too.

Statistics: Posted by bensimmo — Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:24 pm

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