Raspberry pi Zero W - headless setup(Without using Keyboard,Mouse and Monitor)

Raspberry pi Zero is a low cost board from raspberry community and comes with added wireless LAN and Bluetooth connectivity. Specification is awesome.

• 1GHz, single-core CPU

• 512MB RAM

• Mini HDMI and USB On-The-Go ports

• Micro USB power

• HAT-compatible 40-pin header

• Composite video and reset headers

• CSI camera connector

First download Raspbian image and burn into micro SD card

Second, add wifi_supplicant.conf file in SD card for setup wireless network configuration

Third, add ssh.txt file in SD card for enable SSH connection

ssh.txt preparation

1. 
   

2. Click File / Save As …

3. Be sure to set Save as type to All Files (so the file is NOT saved with a .txt extension)

4. Call the file ssh.txt and save it

5. Close the file

wifi_supplicant.conf file preparation

To add network info you need to create a second text file called wpa_supplicant.conf and place that in the root of the boot SD too.

1. Run Notepad or using Notepad ++

2. In a new file

3. Paste in the contents below

country=US

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev

update_config=1

network=

{

ssid="your wifi signal credentials "

psk="your wifi signal credentials"

}

4. Click File / Save As wpa_supplicant.conf and save it

Put the SD card into the Pi Zero W

• Plug a Micro-USB power cable into the power port (the one closest to the end of the board) before that please ensure your wifi signal is available.

Find out the IP which was allocated by your wifi router

Use AdvancedIP scanner on windows pc, scan tour wifi network with your router IP address to Broadcast address.

On successful completion of scanning IP which alloted to your raspberry pi zero with host name of Raspberry pi foundation.

Login to Raspberry pi using Putty

use the Host Name (or IP address) field to raspberrypi.local (dont change anythong)

On putty terminal displayed login name.

• The default user name is: pi

• The default password is: raspberry (Enter correctly letter is not displayed)

Finally terminal prompt shows,

home@raspberrypi$

Thats all .