Raspberry PI - TightVNC viewer

[GTX]

Morning all.

 

Im planning on putting a few screens around our building for people to get updates. We are a building company with over 200 staff. Im looking to put screens in the staff area's so that they can see where they are meant to be/next job. The admins update a Excel sheet into a dropbox.

 

Before all this we had a PC sitting next to the screen that would run a batch file to open the file from dropbox and then convert it to PDF. Then open for a set length of time and repeat the process again

 

Im wanting to remove the PC's next to the screens and run it via the PI. The PI's will connect to a Hyper-V server with TightVNC.

 

The question is how can i get the PI's to connect to the VM's on boot up? I have so far got it to connect without a password but need to automate the process.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Rick

[NokiX]

My recommendation would be to create a bash script that runs the required command to start TightVNC and open the required connection (https://tightvnc.com/vncviewer.1.html) and once you have that working add the script to the crontab so that it automatically run's when the machine boots.

 

Apologies I can't give you more detail but my linux skills are getting a bit rusty!

[GTX]

Haha, Mine are too Nokix!

 

Thanks for your input!