



You can use a new SD card right out of the package.

Put a blank mini SD card and adapter into your Windows machine. To run balenaEtcher is pretty straight forward. The installer may launch balenaEtcher when done - if you close it you can always find and run it later.Run Setup ( Open the download folder and click I Agree).To burn an image to the SD card you can use balenaEtcher (formerly known as just Etcher). Just leave it in your Downloads folder and I'll show you how to burn it to an SD card. Once you download the file, there is no need to unzip it. I'm using the lite image (no desktop) version 4.9 from March 13, 2018. These instructions are for a Raspbian Stretch image that I downloaded from here: The Mac OS version of these instructions can be found here: Setup Pi Zero W Headless Wifi (Mac). It is strongly recommended to add an IP address reservation (static lease) for the Pi's wireless MAC address so that you can reliably find it on your local network.įor WiFi configuration, add 'CONFIG' directory to the SDcard's boot volume.This article covers setting up the Pi Zero W for headless SSH access over WiFi using Windows 10. Look for the Pi connected wirelessly to your router. If your Pi has already completed setup, you can add WiFi settings using a USB stick. After creating the SD card with the Raspberry Pi boot image, add the following step and the Pi will connect to you WiFi network when it completes its initial setup.
