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HOW TO SETUP YOUR RASPBERRY PI, HEADLESS!


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 * Overview
 * Things
 * Story
    * 1. Installing Raspberry Pi OS to SD card
    * 2. Write the OS into your SD Card
    * 3. SSH and Wi-Fi Enabling
    * 4. Install NMap on your computer
    * 5. Install VNC Viewer on your computer
    * 6. Insert your microSD card into your RPi
    * 7. Find your RPi's IP Address
    * 8. Get into you Pi
    * 9. View desktop of RPi (Finally!
    * If you don't see your desktop

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HOW TO SETUP YOUR RASPBERRY PI, HEADLESS!

Bought your Pi, but no Monitor, mouse or Keyboard. Make it Headless!

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THINGS USED IN THIS PROJECT


HARDWARE COMPONENTS

Raspberry Pi (Any Model)

×1


USB Cable, USB Type C Plug

×1


Flash Memory Card, MicroSDHC Card

×1



SOFTWARE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES

Raspberry Pi Imager

NMap

VNC Viewer (REALVNC)




STORY

Setting up your Raspberry Pi (RPi) can be excruciating. I know because I also
experienced it. This method can save you a lot of money and make it easier to
work on you RPi on the go. There are many articles in the internet about this.
But this is the one that has it 'All in one place'.

READ: Read all the Information before starting to do this practically.



1. INSTALLING RASPBERRY PI OS TO SD CARD.

Go to the RPi official webpage by the link below:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

Scroll down till you find the 'Download' button below.

RPi image installer


Click the 'Download' button for your Computer's Operating System.

Install the RPi imager on your Computer.



2. WRITE THE OS INTO YOUR SD CARD.

Connect your microSD card to your computer. (You might need to use a SD Card
Adapter).

Open RPi installer, and Click 'Choose OS'.:

Click on 'Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)'/The one on the top.

Click on 'Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)'


Click 'Choose Storage' and select your SD Card reader.

DO NOT click "Write" yet.



3. SSH AND WI-FI ENABLING

Press Ctrl + Shift + X to bring up the Advanced options menu.

Tick Enable SSH tick boxes in the menu.

Give your RPi a password for SSH.

SSH and it's password


Also, tick Configure Wifi and type your router's SSID (Name) and Password into
the provided spaces.

Change your Wifi Country if it needs adjustments.

Change Locale Settings if desired (It can be done later).

Wifi configuration


Click SAVE followed by clicking WRITE.

Wait till the OS is written and Verified.

DO NOT plug the microSD into the RPi yet.



4. INSTALL NMAP ON YOUR COMPUTER.

Go to the following link, download and install Nmap on your computer:

https://nmap.org/download.html



5. INSTALL VNC VIEWER ON YOUR COMPUTER.

Go to the following link, download and install VNC Viewer on your computer:

https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/

Make sure you install 'VNC Viewer', and NOT 'VNC Server'



6. INSERT YOUR MICROSD CARD INTO YOUR RPI

After verifying the OS, go ahead and get your microSD card from your SD card
Adapter, and plug it into your RPi.

Plug in your micro SD card into your RPi


Then plug in your RPi into it's power source.



7. FIND YOUR RPI'S IP ADDRESS.

Open your computer's terminal window.

I use 'Command Prompt', but you can use terminals such as 'Windows Powershell'.

Open Settings and go to:

Setting > Network and Internet > Wi-Fi > Properties > IPv4

In IPv4, you will find the IP address of your Computer.

It will look like: xxx.xxx.x.x (X's are numbers in reality)

In your terminal, type:

nmap -sn xxx.xxx.x.0/24


Use '0/24' instead of the last number after the last period (decimal point) of
your IP, This will run through all the IP Addresses in your router, to find the
RPi.

Hit Enter.

You will find your RPi's IP address, if you didn't find it, repeat it after a
minute till you find the IP, listed next to an item, 'raspberrypi'.

CMD after running nmap -sn xxx.xxx.x.0/24


Note down the IP of your RPi, in this case, it's highlighted, xxx.xxx.x.14 (The
X's are still numbers)



8. GET INTO YOU PI

After that use your terminal to get into your RPi's terminal.

Type on your terminal:

ssh pi@'IP'


Use the RPi's IP that you got, instead of 'IP' (xxx.xxx.x.14 is the number that
I got, your number can be different.) .

Then you will find a prompt asking for your password.

Type the password that you entered in the RPi Imager for SSH, to get into your
Pi.

Hit Enter and:

In RPi's Terminal


Voila!



9. VIEW DESKTOP OF RPI (FINALLY!)

Launch VNC Viewer on your computer, type your RPi's IP:



Press Enter.

Type in pi for the username and,

Type in your password, it should be raspberry .

But if the password doesn't work, type in your SSH password.

You should now see your Desktop:

My Desktop




IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR DESKTOP?

It is completely normal if you had an error message now, I got it too!

You might be thinking 'I did all of this for an error!'. But fixing it is
relatively simple.

Option 1 (Recommended)

Get onto the RPi terminal using step 8, Then type:

sudo raspi-config


Go to 'Display options' and hit Enter:

Display Options


Go to 'VNC Resolution', and select and confirm '1280x720' (I don't know why, but
that resolution seems to work for everyone):

1280x720


Go to 'Finish', enter it and it will ask you to reboot. Press Enter, when the
pink selector is on 'Yes'.

Now the connection will be interrupted because of the reboot.

Now, try to do step 11.

Step 2 (If step 1 didn't work)

If it didn't work, it's completely normal. I didn't get the desktop too.

Redo step 9, to go to the RPi terminal, if it doesn't work, repeat after a
minute.

On the RPi terminal, type:

sudo apt-get install lxsession


After LXSession is installed, type:

sudo reboot


to reboot your RPi.

Now, try to do step 11.

It should work by now and a 'Startup wizard' will appear.

Congratulations!

You finally opened the door to your Raspberry Pi, and it's many wonders.

If you got stuck after any step, please leave a comment.

Thank You for staying till the end.

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CODE

 * If you don't see your desktop? Step 1
 * If you don't see your desktop? Step 2
 * Title 7
 * Title 8


IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR DESKTOP? STEP 1

Powershell


sudo raspi-config



IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR DESKTOP? STEP 2

Powershell


sudo apt-get install lxsession

sudo reboot



TITLE 7

Powershell


nmap -sn xxx.xxx.x.0/24



TITLE 8

Powershell


ssh pi@'IP'





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