Making your Pi independant
You can turn your pi into a wifi-hotspot. That is you can set it up with its own wifi-network, that you log onto. This is really handy for controlling art installations, where there might be no internet ( I’ve set pi’s up in forests to play videos and to control mechanical instruments via midi). You can still acess the internet thru it ethernet port plugged into a router, and then the pi becomes a wifi-network. When the pi is operating on its own wifi network you can still access it through VNC
its really easy to do here’s the website detailing the package. It does a lot more than I’ve outlined here, so have a read.
on the pi open a terminal window and type
curl -sL https://install.raspap.com | bash
say yes to everything! and in about 5 minuets everything will have downloaded and installed.
next in the terminal type
sudo nano /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
this brings up all the settings for the network. Change the name of the SSID to something you like (rather than raspi-webgui). and the password back to raspberry (from ChangeMe)
then save these changes (ctrl x, yes, return)
then in the terminal restart the pi by typing
sudo reboot
and let it restart.
when the green light has stop flashing look onto yer wifi settings .And you should see the new pi network you named
join onto it, fill out yer password (raspberry)
then open terminal on the mac and get the pi’s ip number by typing
ping raspberrypi.local
note this down
now open VNC up on the mac
and use this ip number to connect, remember user name is still pi , and password is raspberry
press continue,
and then success!
