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#Headless Setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W (Raspberry Pi 3 Wireless) (macOS)

1. Formatt the Micro SD card - Open a terminal and type 'diskutil list'. Find your card and copy the disk name (For example: /dev/disk4). Format the card with diskutil eraseDisk ExFat temp disk4(Use your disk here)
2. Download Raspbian - wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
3. Unmount the SD card - diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4 or whatever your disk path is
4. Mount the Raspbian image to the card - sudo dd if=PATH-TO-RASPBIAN-IMAGE of=/dev/disk4` or whatever your disk path is
5. Enable SSH on the Pi - cd /volumes && ls. You should see a boot partition from the SD card cd boot && touch ssh
6. Setup WiFi on the PI - While still in the boot partition of the card type nano wpa_supplicant.conf and enter network={ ssid="YOUR-SSID" psk="YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD" }
7. Boot the PI - Unmount the card diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4 (or whatever your disk path is) and put it in the Pi, then power up the Pi
8. SSH Into the Pi - Find the Pi's IP on your network by running arp -a or using an app like LanScan and ssh into it ssh pi@YOUR_PIS-IP. THe default password is raspberry
9. Add your SSH key to the PI - While in the Pi run install -d -m 700 ~/.ssh. On you machine run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <USERNAME>@<IP-ADDRESS> 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

YouTube video of this setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9XwyYvmbU

How do you do this on a public network?

Hope this helps someone else...

I tried this and it wasn't working. I eventually figured out that my issue was that my WiFi router supports both:

• Wireless Network (2.4GHz b/g/n), and
• Wireless Network (5GHz a/n/ac)

Using a 5GHz a/n/ac network failed, but using the 2.4GHz b/g/n worked!
Make sure you're NOT using a 5GHz network for your ssid network name.