As I am getting started on the PiRoom project, I realized that I will need to work on the Pi, and there will be chances that I won’t have the Pi on me. For that, I’m using an older Pi to act as my VPN server.
I will be using the openvpn software, because of it’s popularity, mostly because it is free. Once I have this system setup on my pi, I will most likely have a link for my phone, tablet, computer, PiRoom pi, and maybe a NAS or an external harddrive connected to the Pi. The advantages of this system is all my of electronics will be safe within my own home, and I can travel light.
Another, and maybe the main advantage is that I will be assigning a static IP address to my PiRoom Pi. With this, I would run into a lot of trouble if I wanted to say, use the pi in a coffeeshop, where there is a high chance of a conflict with the dhcp server.
I haven’t delved into the system yet (I’m currently not in my house, so I don’t have access to either of my Pis), but I’m assuming that I will either be able to
- Access my PiRoom on my home network because I will be using my PiVPN’s wireless. In this system, the PiRoom’s IP address will stay static, so I only have to deal with one.
- Connect both my device as well as my PiRoom to a network made by the PiVPN, and access the PiRoom through that network. Ideally, the IP address for the PiRoom would stay constant for both, but even if there are two IP addresses, that really isn’t that much of a problem.
Nevertheless, I’m going to try to get the first system up and running, that way, I won’t accidentally forget to attach my PiRoom to my PiVPN, and be stuck with no access to my Pi.