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Do you mean that or do you mean you loaded the image onto a new SD Card and inserted that into the RPi?

It is not possible to run it off a Flash Drive driectly.

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We loaded the image on the new SD card and inserted it in the RPi? Does it make a difference?

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OK, great - just lost in translation :grinning:.

If you know the IP Address of the Pi, just browse to that IP address from a computer on the same network. This guide should help

https://guide.openenergymonitor.org/setup/connect/

If the Pi is just Wi-Fi, the guide will help you get started.

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Quite interesting. I can access the GUI page of the emoncms which then requests for my credentials. Thanks for this. This however means I have to have two systems. I am looking to create a display that is fed directly from the pi. How can I transit from the terminal to the GUI using the pi? Unfortunately I cannot access my

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You have lost me. Do you have 2 physical RPis?

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I mean, I need to have a PC and a Pi. I thought if i installed the EmonSD image onto the Pi, it would be possible to operate as though I had Raspian on the Pi with the emonCMS database on the same device. The whole reason of having a local EmonCMS is to customize it for the end user. I do not know if this can be done in any other way, but may be this is the best we can do it.

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So EmonCMS is setup on the RPi so database etc is all on that - you can unplug the keyboard, monitor etc if you want. On your PC, you simply use a web browser to access the system on the Pi. So use the IP address of the Pi from the PC and you have what you want (I think).

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I think Lewis might want to connect a monitor to the emon Rpi rather than view via the browser of another device (possibly?)

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Could be - that’s what I am trying to tease out. Installing a desktop environment onto an EmonSD image is not a normal process and it may be better to start from a standard Rasbian image with the desktop installed and use the Scripts to install. As this started from a ‘WAMP’ install, I suspect this is not what is required but TBC.

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Yes @ Brian. This would mean that if have both the local installation and the the cloud EmonCMS all together.

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Ah so you are adding in another variable. Do you mean emoncms.org when you say ‘cloud’?