USB devices and Raspberry Pi

[jefft]

Wow!

NoMachine is really quite stunning as a remote desktop solution.  Once I sorted out audio, which was a bit of a pain on the Raspberry Pi, it’s playing back 30fps fast-moving music videos from a Windows 10 remote on VMWare with perfect lipsync and scarcely a dropped frame.  Light years ahead of any other solution I’ve tried bar Windows’ own (which of course won’t run on a Pi!)

I have one problem I can’t seem to solve, though: USB devices.  I know that the ARM version is in alpha, so it may just be that it’s not working yet…?

If I connect a USB storage key to the Pi, Debian (Jessie) immediately spots it and offers to open it.  Whether I do or don’t let Debian open it, NoMachine won’t see the USB device, just says “no devices found”.

Anything I can try to get that working?

Thanks!

Jeff

[jefft]

Found this… https://www.nomachine.com/AR12J00658

The kernel headers on RPi are called raspberrypi-kernel-headers, not the naming suggested.  The make has to be run in a root shell, or it fails trying to overwrite one of the modules as output.  Make clean doesn’t work fully – something about a dangling symlink.  Other than that, the compile seemed to work.

With the compiled driver in place and a reboot done, NM now offers me the option to connect a local USB device (previously greyed out), but still does not see the attached USB storage key.

Anyone got any further ideas?  Can I get NM to offer up any debugging as it tries to see the USB device?

[Britgirl]

At the moment USB devices are not supported on RPI architecture, just printers and disks.
We created a Feature Request which you can view here:
Extending NoMachine USB support to Raspberry Pi
https://www.nomachine.com/FR12N03284

As a workaround you can add your USB flash drive as a disk:
1. Go to Menu
2. Open Devices tab
3. Open Connect a disk
4. USB flash drive will be visible as a disk
5. After connecting the USB flash drive appears on your desktop.

Let us know how you get on 🙂

[jefft]

Thanks.  Seems ok as a disk, yes…  In the real world, I’ll need to add a USB headset as well as to be able to plug in USB storage, so I guess that’ll have to wait for the feature request to find its way into a release.
Thanks for raising that 🙂

 

[jefft]

Incidentally – your link to the FR gives me a 404 type error page.

[Britgirl]

Sorry about the link. I just fixed that.

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