The only downside is the fear of the UI that a certain large company has paid many tens of millions over many years to cultivate, mainly because they had and continue to have no alternative. The serial numberless cables work great when there is just one by itself though. If you use serial cables, watch out for the cheap cables without serial numbers Without electronic identifiers inside the cables themselves the associations can change after resume from sleep or a reboot so that the cable that was ttyUSB0 swaps places with ttyUSB1 or ttyUSB2 and so on. I usually connect via SSH but sometimes also have the machine set up to use a serial cable either directly or via a jump host. It is also irrelevant then whether the machine is on your desk, in the server room, or on the other side of the planet.

For me it is just the fastest, easiest, most flexible way of dealing with the system for many activities. Sometimes I arrange SSH connectivity even before booting the RPi (or other machines) for the first time. Please share you experiences, advice, tips, etc.īack to the original question, shell access is the first thing I set up in most cases. I can't be the only person that this idea appeals to.

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