#Headless Setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W (Raspberry Pi 3 Wireless) (macOS)
- 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) - Download Raspbian -
wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest - Unmount the SD card -
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4or whatever your disk path is - Mount the Raspbian image to the card -
sudo dd if=PATH-TO-RASPBIAN-IMAGEof=/dev/disk4` or whatever your disk path is - Enable SSH on the Pi -
cd /volumes && ls. You should see a boot partition from the SD cardcd boot && touch ssh - Setup WiFi on the PI - While still in the boot partition of the card type
nano wpa_supplicant.confand enternetwork={ ssid="YOUR-SSID" psk="YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD" } - 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 - SSH Into the Pi - Find the Pi's IP on your network by running
arp -aor using an app like LanScan and ssh into itssh pi@YOUR_PIS-IP. THe default password israspberry - Add your SSH key to the PI - While in the Pi run
install -d -m 700 ~/.ssh. On you machine runcat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <USERNAME>@<IP-ADDRESS> 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
YouTube video of this setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9XwyYvmbU
Hope this helps someone else...
I tried this and it wasn't working. I eventually figured out that my issue was that my WiFi router supports both:
Using a 5GHz a/n/ac network failed, but using the 2.4GHz b/g/n worked!
Make sure you're NOT using a 5GHz network for your ssid network name.