Quick Raspberry Pi Setup

I'm currently working on a project using a Raspberry Pi. I've always just worked stuff out as I've gone along, but thought I'd make an effort to document stuff this time around - to save me time in the future and help others looking for simple to follow instructions.

Format an SD Card

I use OSX Disk Utility for this.

Insert SD card and open DIsk Utility
Select SD card from disks on left
Choose 'Erase'
From Format options choose 'MS-DOS (FAT)'
From Scheme select 'GUID Partition Map'
Click 'Erase'

Flash SD Card with Raspbian

Download Etcher
Download Raspian (I generally use 'Lite' as I don't need the desktop GUI)
Unzip Raspbian then use Etcher to flash the .img file to the SD card

Enable SSH and WIFI Before Boot

Open a text editor and create a file called 'ssh' (no file extension) - move this file to the 'boot' partition of the SD card
Open a text editor and create a file call 'wpa_supplicant.conf' - enter the following and complete with correct WIFI network name and password:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
network={
    ssid="YOUR_SSID"
    psk="YOUR_WIFI_PASSWORD"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

Move to 'boot' partition of SD card

Boot Raspberry Pi

Unmount SD card and then insert into Raspberry Pi
Power up the Raspberry Pi
Open router dashboard and find 'Connected Devices' list (or similar)
Find Raspberry Pi on list and note IP address

SSH Into Raspberry Pi

Open terminal and type

ssh pi@[IP ADDRESS]

01 May 2019