I had to break out my old USB keyboard, and USB mouse, to set up the new Raspbery Pi 4. The keyboard looks and feels like a relic from the age of dinosaurs. Paired Bluetooth devices as soon as the OS was ready. 🦖
@ronguest If you ever need to set up a Raspberry Pi without a keyboard and display you can use this headless setup procedure.
@fgtech I went through that procedure first but couldn’t access the pi. After getting a micro HDMI cable and hooking up a monitor I could see it was waiting for an interaction to tell it which Raspbian to install. I supposed I didn’t copy the right image to the SD card first.
@ronguest I didn’t get headless setup to work at first myself, now that you mention it. The instructions “activate certain setup features on the first boot” of a fresh image, so you just get one shot to get it right and you’d have to re-flash the card to try again.
@ronguest It’s definitely easier to hook up a keyboard and display if you have them available. For setting up several devices at once (as I was doing) it becomes worth fiddling with the headless setup to get it working.
@fgtech Yeah, it was weird because it sort of worked. When it came up it had the wireless network connection already and it knew SSH was to be enabled. It just didn’t do the OS install. 🤷🏻♂️
@ronguest Huh. Yeah, that is weird. I’ve not seen that before. Maybe also related some new pi 4 components.