No Browsers working with Remote Access

[rsiegel]

Hi @frank.currie,

I worked with another user who encountered this issue a few days ago. You’re right, it’s because our Remote Access feature is driven by tightVNC which doesn’t support xrandr. Unless we change anything in that regard (it’s not in our immediate plans) you have a few options as a workaround.

1. You can use one of the only browsers I’ve found that is stable through tightvnc, called hv3. See my post from that original thread:

Remote Access & Web Browser

@Echo Ok, so… I think after trying like 10 different browsers I have a lightweight one that seems to work under this condition! It’s called hv3. You can install from your pi command line by: sudo apt-get install hv3 Once installed, it will run with the command hv3 You can make a shortcut for it, of course. Be warned that this is a minimal browser, not every last thing might work, but it’s behaving far better than all of the other more mainstream ones I tried. Hopefully it will all…

There may be others of course. That browser did seem pretty bare bones but it behaved, at least.

2. Work around it by connecting to your Pi with some other remote desktop/vnc software outside of the Cayenne ‘Remote Access’ feature. Like the vnc4server that you’ve mentioned, or there are many other options in the Raspbian software repository.

I’m going to try to spend some time next week to figure out if there are configuration options that you can edit on tightvnc which will allow it to behave better in the size we open into via the Remote Access feature. We don’t expose any settings for tightvnc through Cayenne, but I’m sure they are there in config files on the Pi, I’m just not sure which to change, yet. I’ll update once I know more.