Category: macOS

Steps for Backup

1. Mount your Raspberry Pi SD card to your Mac.

2. Find your SD card’s name:

diskutil list

3. and backup your diskX as myPiBackup.dmg:

sudo dd if=/dev/diskX of=~/myPiBackup.dmg

4. Enter your password when prompted.

5. Backup will take some time. If you want to see the process:

Control+T

6. Eject your SD card:

sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdiskX

 

Steps for Restoring

1. Mount your empty SD card to your Mac.

2. Find your SD card’s name:

diskutil list

3. Write your myPiBackup.dmg into your diskX.

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX
sudo dd if=myPiBackup.dmg of=/dev/diskX

4. Enter your password when prompted.

5. Restoring will take some time. (31914983424 bytes transferred in 15260.841046 secs (2091299 bytes/sec)). If you want to see the process:

Control+T

6. Eject your SD card:

sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdiskX

 

Credits

https://howchoo.com/pi/create-a-backup-image-of-your-raspberry-pi-sd-card-in-mac-osx

Steps

0. You will possibly get an error about LIBPLIST in the upcoming steps, so first run:

sudo apt install libplist-dev

 

1. Then install git:

sudo apt install git

 

2. Then use these commands:

git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git

cd RPiPlay

 

3. For building on a fresh Raspbian install, these steps should be run:

sudo apt-get install cmake

sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

 

4. At some point, if you get an error about GStreamer, run:

sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

 

5. To Start mirroring:

cd RPiPlay

cd build

./rpiplay

 

6. To Stop it (this should bring up the login prompt):

Alt + PrtScr + k

 

7. And go to console:

Ctrl + Alt + F1

 

8. Raspberry Pi shut down:

sudo shutdown -h now

 

Credits

https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay

https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay/issues/145

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37678324/compiling-opencv-with-gstreamer-cmake-not-finding-gstreamer

1. Go to the following link and download the latest version:

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest

 

2. List the disk names:

diskutil list

 

3. The disk must be unmounted before copying the image:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN

 

4. Copy the image:

sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/rdiskN; sync

 

5. Check the progress by pressing:

Ctrl+T

 

6. After the dd command finishes, eject the card:

sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdiskN

 

7. Boot the Raspberry Pi from the new SD card

 

8. Do not forget to change the default password:

Username: pi

Password: raspberry

 

9. Do not forget to change the keyboard and timezone settings:

sudo raspi-config

 

10. To add the network details to the Raspberry Pi:

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

And add the following:

network={

ssid=”Wif-FiName”

psk=”Wi-FiPassword”

}

 

11. Wait for network (optional):

sudo raspi-config

– Find and select Boot Options.

– Find and select Wait for Network at Boot.

– Select Yes

– Exit

 

12. Boot/Autologin:

– Console Autologin

 

13. Ensure everything is up-to-date:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 

Credits

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md