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Remote desktop

See and use a car's own screen from a browser, for the graphical tools a terminal cannot show.

Remote desktop shows the car’s own screen in a browser tab. It is for the graphical tools, such as RViz or a settings window, that a terminal cannot show. The connection is VNC through noVNC in the browser, not Microsoft RDP, so a Remote Desktop client does not connect to it.

Connect

  1. Open rd-rb1.sfuracerbot.ca for racerbotcar-1 or rd-rb2.sfuracerbot.ca for racerbotcar-2.
  2. Sign in at the Cloudflare Access page, then select Connect.
  3. If nobody is logged in on the car, the car’s login screen appears. Sign in with the device login from your team lead.

The screen is shared. Anyone at the car’s monitor, or connected at the same time, sees what you do and moves the same pointer, so say in Discord before you take over a car someone else is using.

Limitations

  • One screen, shared by everyone connected. Two people working at once interrupt each other.
  • Remote desktop over the internet is slower than SSH. Use SSH in the browser for anything a terminal can do.