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Raspberry Pis<\/a> with WiFi are very useful for building prototypes that connect to services on the Internet. <\/p>\n In case you need a Raspberry Pi with in-built WiFi, you can get one of these:<\/p>\n An operating system is needed for running your Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Stretch Lite is an ideal choice for server based applications. <\/p>\n Although Raspbian Stretch Lite does not have a graphical user interface, it is not difficult to get it to connect to a WiFi hotspot. <\/p>\n If you wish to use your iPhone<\/a> as a WiFi hotspot for your Raspberry Pi prototype, read this post to find out how to connect Raspbian Stretch Lite to your iPhone hotspot.<\/p>\n First, turn on WiFi Personal hotspot on your iPhone<\/a>. Once the WiFi Personal hotspot is turned on, you will be able to connect WiFi devices to it. <\/p>\n The SSID (or WiFi hotspot name) and password of your iPhone WiFi Personal hotspot will be needed to connect Raspbian Stretch Lite. You can get the SSID and password of your WiFi Personal hotspot at the Personal Hotspot<\/strong> screen.<\/p>\n For example, in the sample screenshot below, the SSID is MyiPhone<\/strong> and the password is apassword<\/strong>:<\/p>\n If the SSID is the default given by your iPhone, you should change your WiFi SSID of your iPhone hotspot<\/a> to one without spaces and a-strophes. <\/p>\n For the purpose of this guide, let's assume that your iPhone WiFi hotspot's SSID is MyiPhone<\/strong> and the password is apassword<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Here are three ways to connect Raspbian Stretch Lite to your iPhone hotspot:<\/p>\n As I had mentioned in how to setup Raspbian Stretch Lite with remote configuration over WiFi on first boot<\/a>, making Raspbian Stretch Lite connect to a WiFi network is useful for projects based on Raspberry Pi Zero W<\/a>. <\/p>\n You can follow the steps mentioned in that post to get Raspbian Stretch Lite to connect to your iPhone hotspot when it boots up for the first time.<\/p>\n So what if you wanted to connect a previous installation of Raspbian Stretch Lite to your iPhone WiFi hotspot? In this situation, you can use the raspi-config<\/strong> tool from a terminal session to connect to your iPhone hotspot. <\/p>\n First, run the following command to start After The manual way to connecting an Raspbian Stretch Lite after it boots up is to edit the Once the editor loads the file, add in the following content to the end of the file:<\/p>\n Since Raspbian Stretch Lite can connect to different WiFi networks, there can be multiple After you had added in your iPhone WiFi details, run the following command to get Raspbian Stretch Lite to take in the new network configurations:<\/p>\n When Raspbian Stretch Lite is able to reconfigure the WiFi adapter with the new configurations, you should see OK<\/strong> after you ran the command. <\/p>\n In addition, Raspbian Stretch Lite will connect to your iPhone WiFi hotspot when your iPhone and Raspberry Pi are in contactable range.<\/p>\n\n Raspberry Pis<\/a> with WiFi are very useful for building prototypes that connect to services on the Internet. <\/p>\n In case you need a Raspberry Pi with in-built WiFi, you can get one of these:<\/p>\n An operating system is needed for running your Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Stretch Lite is an ideal choice for server based applications. <\/p>\n Although Raspbian Stretch Lite does not have a graphical user interface, it is not difficult to get it to connect to a WiFi hotspot. <\/p>\n\n
Enable Personal Hotspot on your iPhone<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nConnecting Raspbian Stretch Lite to your iPhone hotspot<\/h2>\n
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wpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> file inside the microSD card right after you had installed Raspbian Stretch Lite onto the microSD card.<\/li>\nraspi-config<\/code> tool from a terminal session with Raspbian Stretch Lite after it boots up.<\/li>\nwpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> file located in the \/etc\/wpa_supplicant<\/code> directory from a terminal session with Raspbian Stretch Lite after it boots up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIncluding a
wpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> file inside the microSD card right after you had installed Raspbian Stretch Lite onto the microSD card<\/h3>\nUsing the
raspi-config<\/code> tool from a terminal session with Raspbian Stretch Lite after it boots up<\/h3>\nraspi-config<\/code> tool:<\/p>\n\r\nsudo raspi-config\r\n<\/pre>\n
raspi-config<\/code> starts, follow through the following screenshots to get Raspbian Stretch Lite to connect to your iPhone hotspot: <\/p>\n![\"Raspbian](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspbian-Stretch-Lite-2018-06-27-raspi-config-with-Network-Options-selected.gif\")
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<\/p>\nEditing the
wpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> file located in the \/etc\/wpa_supplicant<\/code> directory from a terminal session with Raspbian Stretch Lite after it boots up<\/h3>\nwpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> file directly. This file is located in the \/etc\/wpa_supplicant<\/code> directory. Therefore, you can run the following command to edit it:<\/p>\n\r\nsudo nano \/etc\/wpa_supplicant\/wpa_supplicant.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nnetwork={\r\n ssid="MyiPhone"\r\n psk="apassword"\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nnetwork<\/code> blocks inside wpa_supplicant.conf<\/code>. <\/p>\n\r\nwpa_cli -i wlan0 reconfigure\r\n<\/pre>\n
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