How to use deconz vnc (installed on raspbian)

deCONZ General Support
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I have installed deconz on my pi using the following steps: ConBee Installation

I run homeassistant, but not the OS, so I can’t install addons directly from the store. How exactly do I access deconz VNC? The only instructions I can find are about docker installations and homeassistant with OS,

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Hello,

There is no “deconz VNC”, you can get access to Deconz GUI using VNC.
You have to configure VNC on your Raspeberry first (Getting Started With VNC on Raspberry Pi: A Complete Guide – RaspberryTips). Then, when you gain access to your RPi, with VNC you could launch a terminal session to stop deConz if it is already running and starting deconz-GUI (both cannot run together) .

$ sudo systemctl stop deconz
$ sudo systemctl start deconz-gui
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oh yeah I know how to do that, I thought there was a way to display the gui without vnc and running the gui version. It’s such a pain everytime I want to debug to knock my whole network down.

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While don’t you stay the deconz-gui running all time ?

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My impression is that that would take up more ram? Maybe it’s marginal and I should try that.

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Of course it depends of you’re system configuration. For me the real challenge is not to close the GUI windows befoe closing VNC session ! :wink: