Remote Programming of Raspberry Pi using PyCharm

This tutorial is about using PyCharm IDE on a Windows machine to remotely execute Python programs on Raspberry Pi. This step by step tutorial on how to remotely connect PyCharm to Raspberry Pi and use the Raspberry Pi python interpreter to execute the programs is tested on a Windows 10 machine and Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS.

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1. Step by step configuration

Step 1:

Ensure the Windows Machine and Raspberry Pi are part of the same Network.

Step 2:

Install PyCharm Professional Edition on your Windows machine.

Step 3:

You need to get the IP Address of Raspberry Pi. To do so, open the Terminal window on raspberry pi and type the following command ifconfig (here it's 192.168.1.42):

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.42  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 2a01:cb15:811a:800:ca7b:d8b1:eef3:94d0  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::b77f:4360:7571:b634  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether b8:27:eb:b4:2b:f9  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 829885  bytes 309193514 (294.8 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 85330  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 163367  bytes 16088873 (15.3 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 41  bytes 2444 (2.3 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 41  bytes 2444 (2.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether b8:27:eb:e1:7e:ac  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Step 4:

Create props project folder on the Raspebrry:

pi@raspberrypi:~/Room $ pwd
/home/pi/Room
pi@raspberrypi:~/Room $ mkdir PyTvScripter
pi@raspberrypi:~/Room $ ls
PyTvScripter  Relay
pi@raspberrypi:~/Room $

Step 5:

Invoke your PyCharm IDE. Create a new Project. Go to File —> New Project —> Pure Python —> Give a Project Name. In this case it is PyTvScripter.

Step 6:

Right Click on PyTvScripter and select New —> Python File and give a name to python file. In this case it is tvscripter.py

Step 7:

Write the line print("Hello RaspberryPi") in the editor.

Step 8:

Now go to File —> Settings —> Project: PyTvScripter —> Project Interpreter

Step 9:

On the right pane of the window, click on teh gear button at the end of Project Interpreter and select Add... Then select SSH Interpreter and fill in the New server configuration with the Raspberry IP address and pi user, then Apply:

Step 10:

Complete with credentials for pi user:

Step 11:

When connected to the Raspberry, browse remote drive to select Python 3 interpreter:

Remote SSH interpreter is now configured:

Now on Apply, deployment configuration is created automatically:

Step 12:

Click Configure... —> Mappings and set the correct path for deployment on the Raspberry:

Now go to File —> Settings —> Project: PyTvScripter —> Project Interpreter to check SSH configuration is completed:

Step 13:

Now we need to upload the Python file created on our Windows machine on to Raspberry Pi and compile the program using Raspberry Pi Python Interpreter.

Select PyTvScripter folder in Project left panel and go to Tools —> Deployment —> Upload to pi@192.168.1.42:22: