Configure a new Raspberry PI with WiFi and SSH

configure-raspberry-pi.md

Configure Raspberry PI

Setting up Image

• Download a Raspbian image (latest is usually a safe bet)
• Download and install Etcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
• Write image to SD Card

Configuration

• Touch an empty file named ssh into the SD card (this enables SSH)
• Locate cmdline.txt, append ip=192.168.0.XXX to the end (this gives you a static IP)
• Create a wpa_supplicant.conf file on the SD card with the following contents:

country=au
update_config=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
 scan_ssid=1
 ssid="your_network_name"
 psk="your_network_password"
}

Boot

• Boot the raspberry pi
• Browse to your router to find the new raspberrypi’s IP address (router is usually at 192.168.0.1)
• On you macOS, open a new terminal table and run ssh [email protected]
  • The password will be raspberry
• Edit /etc/hostname to change the hostname to something more obvious (reboot)

Additional

Install NVM and NodeJS:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.2/install.sh | bash
nvm install 8.9.4