connect the tty1 screen to my ssh session

Question

I have a raspi and it has no mouse or keyboard. But I have connected a Hardware-screen on it. And what I want is to connect via ssh or telnet to it, and see on the Hardware-screen what I am typing via ssh.

normally I use screen and attach to it with screen -x but that's not possible now because I have no keyboard attached to it.

Is there any way I can connect the tty1 to the ssh session ?

UPDATE1 , after I chmoded the tty1 for everybody writebale with

sudo chmod 666 /dev/tty1

I am able now to send messages to it like

echo "message" > /dev/tty1

There are still 2 problems. 1) I cant send "Enter", and 2) I do not see the feedback on my ssh screen.

Answer 1

You can run something like screen or tmux on the console, then connect to it. You can accomplish this by setting things (with raspi-config) to automatically log you in on the console and not start the GUI, and having the following as the last line in your .bashrc:

[[ $(/usr/bin/tty) == "/dev/tty1" ]] && exec /usr/bin/screen

You can then run screen -x from your ssh session. Several things to note:

• you will be a lot happier if the window size of whatever you are sshing from is the same as the console screen size (which you can see by running stty -a < /dev/tty1). Exactly what it is depends on what font you are using for the console.
• You will still not be able to see any messages printed by the kernel to the console (but you can see them with sudo cat /dev/vcs1).
• Check the manual for screen on how to adjust sizes, etc.

If you are really ambitious, you can write your own code that continously reads from /dev/vcs1, and "types" onto the console by using TIOCSTI.