An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket

Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by bravura on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:11PM (#21431581)

I've been interested in RPis for a while, but I travel a bit and it's a huge hassle to onboard to a new wifi network. This is great, does it work for other RPis besides Zero?

What I would love is to do the RPi wifi configuration wirelessly, perhaps through bluetooth on my phone.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by kingosticks on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:30PM (#21431678)

Gadget mode is limited to Raspberry Pi 0, 0W, A, A+, and 4.

> What I would love is to do the RPi wifi configuration wirelessly, perhaps through bluetooth on my phone.

As I understand it, this is what BerryLan does.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by kingosticks on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:18AM (#21434326)

If you just need a way to define the wireless network ssid and password then drop a wpa_supplicant file in the boot partition. As described at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wire...

If you need a static ip or something else more complicated then this will fall short.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by imglorp on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:33AM (#21434055)

Are the OSs compatible between Zero and 3/4 Pi's? Maybe you could set up everything needed on a headed Pi and then pull its SD and slap it into the Zero, no funny phone apps.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by colinramsay on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:25AM (#21433261)

You may be interested in http://www.berrylan.org/ - I only found it today so haven't tested it but it does seem to be an interesting solution to the wifi problem you have stated.

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