How to set up Raspberry and access it without a monitor
Hello there! Have you ever wondered how can you have access to your new Raspberry Pi without connecting it to a monitor, mouse, and keyboard? Well, here I am going to show you how to do that in an easy way.
What we need to begin:
- Raspberry Pi with included charger
- https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/
- SD card or any external SSD/HDD
- Ethernet cable(unless you have wifi connection around your Pi)
- Raspberry PI Imager optional*
- https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Let’s start!
- First things first, let’s connect the memory drive you obtained to your PC
- Open Pi imager app and we begin by selecting the operating system
- CHOOSE OS -> and pick any OS you would like to have. The most basic is Ubuntu Desktop.
- For the purpose of this video I’m going to pick Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS from CHOOSE OS -> Other general-purpose OS -> Ubuntu
- Next, we are moving into CHOOSE STORAGE and we select our memory drive on which we are going to have installed our OS
- The last and important thing is to go to settings, where we set our hostname, login/password to our Raspberry, and wifi.
- After that, we are clicking WRITE button and we have to wait for the program to emulate our OS into our memory drive.
When everything is done, remove your memory drive with OS, connect to your Raspberry along with charger and Ethernet cable*optional
In the end…
we just have to connect to your small device. Since we try to connect “headless“ we have to find the IP address of our Pi. To do that we can either install Angry IP scanner or use a terminal by typing arp -a.
After we know the IP address of our machine, now we can connect to it according to which OS you are using on your PC. The best way to connect to Raspberry on windows is to install Putty and from both Mac and Ubuntu we can access ssh from the terminal by typing ssh name_of the machine@IP_address
Once we are connected we are good to go with whatever we want to do with our small but powerful device.
#Optional step without Pi Imager!
There is another way of making things up without using Pi Imager. We write chosen OS on a memory drive by using any other app and creating a blank text file named “wpa_supplicant.conf”.
Insert the following data into this text file :
country=us #choose your own country
update_config=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicantnetwork={
scan_ssid=1
ssid="MyNetworkSSID" # name of your wifi network
psk="Pa55w0rd1234" # password of your wifi network
}
Copy “wpa_supplicant.conf” file to the boot partition on your SD card. In Windows, this is the only partition you will be able to see
The last thing that you have to do now is to create a blank file named “ssh“ without any extension. Just simply put it in the boot partition and that is all!
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