You have to unmount and re-mount the SD card, to proceed with the next step. The tool will ask you to enter your account password to start the write operation. Take care to select the SD card as the target. When you start this tool, you first have to select the Raspberry Pi OS image. I recommend using a tool called Balena Etcher to write the image to the SD card. Prepare the SD cardĭownlad the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS Lite from the web site. I will show you here, how you set up the project on your Raspberry Pi Zero W step-by-step. Now, after your client (PC, smart phone, tablet …) successfully connected to the hotspot, it automatically loads the setup page. In my fork of the project I added a simple configuration setting for DNSMASQ, that does the magic. I integrated some extra configuration options to set the elements of the footer or the page title with the contents of a configuration file. I updated the web UI to use the Bootstrap library, inspired by the work of the GitHub user swissbyte.

Make the project to behave as a captive portal.

Update the web UI to a more modern look.

There were no current changes on the original project for the last two years.

My fork of it is available on my GitHub pages. RaspiWiFi is a program to headlessly configure a Raspberry Pi’s WiFiĬonnection using using any other WiFi-enabled device (much like the wayĪ Chromecast or similar device can be configured). I found a project on GitHub called RasipWiFi, that makes setting up the WiFi setting right on the device really easy. The normal way to set up a headless Raspberrry Pi Zero W is copying a file call wpa_nf onto the boot partition of the SD card. A file called wpa_nf is created on the boot partition, which contains the necessary parameters. With the raspberryPi Zero W the configuration of the wifi settings normally works like this: You mount the SD card with your PC.

Raspberry pi zero wireless setup