You can then use them to setup new Pis on the same network without going through any text editing whatsoever. Once you have these two files setup properly, I’d suggest saving them somewhere where you can find them later. There’s also an example on that may be helpful for configuring things for your particular network setup.

You can then open up a new file, and add your network configuration data, which will look something like this: The default (UTF-8) works without issue for this and the actual configuration file. Save a blank file as ssh without anything in it. Under Open and Save in the When Saving a File: area, uncheck Add “.txt” extension to plain text files. Under New Document, under the Format area, select Plain text instead of Rich text. Scanning program, such as Angry IP Scanner to determine the Pi’s IP address and if the Pi has logged onto the network.įirst open up TextEdit to create your configuration files.There are a few tweaks that will save you some hassle. BalenaEtcher, used for burning the RPi OS disk image, is available here for macOS (along with Windows and Linux if needed in the future) macOS’ built-in TextEdit tool works well for creating the ssh and wpa_nf files that are needed to connect over WiFi.

zip archive to somewhere that you can find it. Will it work? Yes it does. (Image Credit: Jeremy Cook) Software Neededįirst, we’ll need the following software packages to get things going:ĭownload your preferred version of Raspberry Pi OS from this page, likely Raspberry Pi OS Lite if you don’t need a GUI. In this article we’ll go over how to do so specifically under macOS, allowing you to get your RPi remote computing node up and running without using an external monitor whatsoever.

While the Raspberry Pi works extremely well in a “headless” mode without a monitor, setting this up can be a little tricky.

Headless pi zero setup