Headless Setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W (Raspberry Pi 3 Wireless) (macOS).markdown

#Headless Setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W (Raspberry Pi 3 Wireless) (macOS)

1. Formatt the Micro SD card - Open a terminal and type 'diskutil list'. Find your card and copy the disk name (For example: /dev/disk4). Format the card with diskutil eraseDisk ExFat temp disk4(Use your disk here)
2. Download Raspbian - wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
3. Unmount the SD card - diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4 or whatever your disk path is
4. Mount the Raspbian image to the card - sudo dd if=PATH-TO-RASPBIAN-IMAGE of=/dev/disk4` or whatever your disk path is
5. Enable SSH on the Pi - cd /Volumes && ls. You should see a boot partition from the SD card cd boot && touch ssh
6. Setup WiFi on the PI - While still in the boot partition add a wpa_supplicant.conf file with your wifi configurations (example is attached)
7. Boot the PI - Unmount the card diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4 (or whatever your disk path is) and put it in the Pi, then power up the Pi
8. SSH Into the Pi - Find the Pi's IP on your network by running arp -a or using an app like LanScan and ssh into it ssh pi@YOUR_PIS-IP. THe default password is raspberry
9. Add your SSH key to the PI - While in the Pi run install -d -m 700 ~/.ssh. On your machine run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <USERNAME>@<IP-ADDRESS> 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

YouTube video of this setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9XwyYvmbU

wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=US

network={
	ssid="YOUR_SSID"
	psk="YOUR_PASSWORD"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}